Super-Hero Apps for the iPhone & iPod Touch:

With the inclusion of third party applications on iTunes App Store, Apple has finally allowed iPhone and iPod Touch fanboy’s to combine their love of all things Mac and all things Super. Here’s a rundown of some games featuring our favorite 4-Color Heroes:

Iron Man: Aerial Assault

Easily the most robust super-hero game currently available for the iPhone. Fans play as the big screen incarnation of ‘ol Shell Head, on an airborne mission, using his signature armor to take out drones, missiles, and aerial bases. The graphics on this game rival any console game I have – and when you are comparing a mobile game favorably to a next gen console title, you have a good idea of how powerful these devices are.

The controls on this game took quite some time for me to master, but once I figured out how to use the iPhone’s motion and touch functions to control Iron Man, and effectively utilize his repulsor blasts, missiles and chest unibeam, I became severely addicted to this game. Each of the twelve levels introduced more planes, missiles and drones for me to combat, by the time I reached the final level the melee of opponents was almost dizzying. But that didn’t stop me from obsessively replaying this game until I had conquered all.

Iron Man: Aerial Assault from Paramount Digital Entertainment is currently on sale at the iTunes App store for $0.99 – a big discount from the $5.99 I paid for it. At that price, you’d be silly not to get it.

The Dark Knight: Batmobile Game

This game gets a lot of flack from mobile gamers, mostly for what the game isn’t: a full out driving experience. But for what the game is, I greatly enjoy it.

A rather quick play, The Dark Knight: Batmobile Game puts you behind the wheel (in a third person view) of The Tumbler – Batman’s big screen ride, as you use the motion control of your iPhone or iPod Touch to weave in and out of traffic in Gotham City. Touching the exhaust of The Tumbler, when prompted, gives you a speed boost. Touching at the wrong time stalls you out.

While people complain that you aren’t in full control of The Tumbler – the vehicle is on “auto-pilot” – you simply move left or right, and control your trajectory during jumps – that never took away from the enjoyment of this game for me. After all – it’s a mobile game, not Grand Theft Auto. Again, the graphics are mind-blowing, and this quick tour through Gotham has kept me entertained during many a train ride or long wait at the pharmacy.

The Dark Knight: Batmobile Game from Warner Bros. Entertainment is available at the iTunes App store for $0.99

LEGO Batman: Gotham City Games

A companion game for the console version of LEGO Batman – designed exclusively for the iPhone and iPod Touch. LEGO Batman: Gotham City Games has a series of classic mini-games, stylized for the LEGO Batman world, which are tied together with impressively rendered comic-book style cut scenes.

Fans expecting a port of the LEGO Batman console game might be disappointed, and the game is geared towards younger players, but I did enjoy some of the mini-games more then others – Penguin Pinball would make a perfectly good pinball game, even without the Batman theme – and I especially like LEGO Batman wallpapers that are unlocked as you complete each game.

At $4.99, it is a little pricey, but its important to keep in mind that on most cell phones, $4.99 would get you an 8-bit version of Pac Man to play.

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