Iron Man Game Tier List - GameRant

Despite being 1 of the astir fashionable Marvel characters of the modern age, Iron Man hasn't had excessively galore video crippled outings, and they're a mixed bag.

Back successful the 1990s, Marvel was struggling beauteous hard. With the wide diminution of comic publication sales, comic publication movies, and merchandise, the full manufacture was successful fiscal trouble, with Marvel having a peculiarly unsmooth time. Following the institution filing for bankruptcy successful 1996, Marvel started to merchantability disconnected its characters, with Sony taking Spider-Man, Universal taking Hulk, and Fox taking the X-Men. But with the emergence of comic publication movies successful the aboriginal 2000s, acknowledgment to those companies and their usage of the sold characters, Marvel thought it would person different ace astatine creating a movie, and frankincense 2008's Iron Man was born.

Kick-starting a decade-old franchise, Iron Man did the impossible, not lone making Marvel a applicable institution erstwhile again but besides turning Iron Man into a household name. Despite debuting each the mode backmost successful 1963, Iron Man had ne'er truly deed the mainstream similar immoderate of his other Avengers co-stars. But with the emergence successful popularity of the MCU, Iron Man started to go overmuch much well-known, yet starring to a slew of video crippled outings, to mixed results.

A-Tier

• Iron Man VR: Released successful 2020, exclusively for PlayStation VR, Iron Man VR lets players instrumentality to the skies successful their precise ain suit of armor. Iron Man VR sees players effort to way down the mysterious Ghost, each portion facing disconnected against hordes of hacked Stark drones. Before each mission, players tin customize their loadout with a assortment of iconic Iron Man weaponry, including a scope of antithetic repulsors and rockets. Iron Man VR isn't a cleanable game, with immoderate disappointing force assortment and excruciatingly agelong load times, but it whitethorn conscionable beryllium the champion Iron Man standalone crippled of each time, letting players really inhabit the suit themselves and zip astir a assortment of amusive environments.

B-Tier

• The Invincible Iron Man: A 2002 Game Boy Advance game, The Invincible Iron Man is simply a amazingly coagulated 2D side-scroller that pits Iron Man against classical foes similar Crimson Dynamo. While the crippled suffers from immoderate lackluster force AI, and the levels are each straightforward linear affairs, The Invincible Iron Man wins points for really being conscionable a amusive crippled with immoderate stylish visuals.
• Iron Man (2008) Nintendo DS: The archetypal of the Iron Man 2008 tie-in titles connected this list, Iron Man connected the Nintendo DS is really the champion mentation of the game. Trading successful its large console counterpart's third-person enactment for a succinct top-down shooter, Iron Man connected DS isn't thing special, but it is simply a challenging, and rather rewarding acquisition with plentifulness of upgrades and tons of force assortment to support the subordinate hooked for its abbreviated 4-hour runtime.
• Iron Man 2 (Xbox 360/PS3): The large flagship mentation of the Iron Man 2 tie-in game, this Xbox 360 and PS3 mentation offers immoderate decent third-person enactment gameplay. Though its unsmooth graphics, abbreviated runtime, and repetitive combat are each large downsides, the progression strategy and the quality to play arsenic some Iron Man and War Machine assistance to marque this 1 basal out.
• Iron Man 2 (Nintendo DS): Unlike its predecessor, Iron Man 2 connected Nintendo DS goes for a side-scrolling enactment approach. By swiping the touch-screen, players tin occurrence War Machine oregon Iron Man's assorted weapons, and pressing fastener inputs volition prosecute them successful hand-to-hand combat. It's each beauteous simple, but it's a coagulated tie-in movie game.

C-Tier

• Iron Man (2008) Xbox 360/PS3: The large flagship tie-in for the precise archetypal MCU movie, Iron Man for Xbox 360 and PS3 is an ambitious game, but 1 that misses much shots than it lands. Though the thought of flying done large, unfastened environments arsenic Iron Man is large connected paper, successful reality, it feels a small excessively stiff and awkward to control. Throw immoderate bland environments, mediocre force AI, and mindless combat connected apical of that and Iron Man is simply a sub-par tie-in game.
• Iron Man 3: A mobile-exclusive title, Iron Man 3 is an on-rails shooter successful a akin vein to Starfox. While the gameplay itself is beauteous fun, with the subordinate utilizing interaction controls to pat connected force drones and destruct them, Iron Man 3 had immoderate beauteous predatory microtransactions, requiring players to driblet real-world currency to proceed playing, oregon unlock the suits indispensable to continue.

D-Tier

• Iron Man and X-O Manowar successful Heavy Metal: Widely considered to beryllium 1 of the worst Marvel games of each time, Iron Man and X-O Manowar successful Heavy Metal whitethorn beryllium the archetypal Iron Man standalone game, but that's nary excuse. Awful visuals, unspeakable dependable quality, stiff controls, and repetitive and sluggish combat are each conscionable aboveground elements that marque Iron Man and X-O Manowar specified a atrocious game.

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