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Movie tie-ins have a terrible reputation and when they hit the release date for the film on target, most gamers from experience presume corners were cut and quality suffers. When I downloaded and took the PS3 demo of Iron Man for a spin yesterday I hadn't seen anything about the game in the media so I was able to come at it fresh.

In general I'm a fan of third person action games when the controls make sense, and the short level you got to play in the demo felt pretty good. The controls for flight, weaponry, and maneuvering are ok, and in general matched the rest of the game. The same gameplay concept, if tightened up with higher resolution character and environmental assets could have been a pretty sharp game, but as it is this looks like a pretty mindless action romp with Marvel Comics character trappings and generally low-resolution areas with weak animation.

It must be my own tilt towards these kinds of games that has me thinking I'd play it as a rental because early reviews are quite poor, in the 30% and 40% range. Check out the latest scores on MetaCritic.