“Puny Game.”
Having you been waiting for an awesome videogame adaptation of Marvel’s massive hit and the #1 comic movie of all time, Avengers? Well, keep fucking waiting, because Avengers: Battle for Earth is that shitty Kinect/WiiU fighting game. It appears all seven main characters in the movie are playable — seven! Such a bounty! — and you can fight in an arena, a slightly different arena, and even a vaguely different arena. The fighting, of course, should take advantage of the wide range of moves the Kinect and Wii can process, like “wave arms around” and “duck.” Look, I know you don’t care about this game. I’m just hoping that if I keep making fun of it I’ll shame somebody into making a real Avengers game.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.