This video of a Flash game -- and I should clarify that as "the very fast DC superhero," not the crappy web application -- is making the rounds and making people cry. Here's the deal: Apparently Brash Entertainment was making the game and got six months into it before the company closed. Now, DC never announced a Brash deal, leading some to suspect this video is a fake, but I think it's real, if only because it seems an elaborate amount of work to be otherwise.
Either way, it's a pretty cool game. The gamemakers matched a decent sense of The Flash's speed with a wide-open city for him to run around in, thus solving what Sega couldn't ever figure out with Sonic the Hedgehog. The combat seems to revolve around buttons matched to enemies, which I think is a smart, easy way to allow the players to replicate the Flash's speed during fights. And then there's collectible shit hidden around the city, and everyone likes that.
My only question is: if this is real, why doesn't DC pay for the materials so far and see if another game company is interested? I mean, this looks pretty good for a very early build -- I'd think it'd be pretty easy for someone take over, and surely there's more than a few companies that would love to work on a DC game. But maybe the Flash's fate is just to die a lot. Thanks to Will C for the tip. (Via QJ.net)
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Arsenal said:
So this game will never come out.
Thanks Rob you finally found a way to get my to kill myself.
Nice work there
Posted 10/09/2009 at 10:14:40 AM
Tonik said:
Sweet. One more awesome game that I'll never get play. Damn you TR. Now I'm gonna have to go drink away the pain. Again.
Posted 10/09/2009 at 10:18:24 AM
Anonymous said:
I feel the same way about this game as I do the actual character:
Borrrrrrrrrrrrrrring!
To me, this game looks sucky right from the get go. Maybe it's just a biased opinion since I have never liked any super heroes like the Flash or even Marvel's Quicksilver that have super speed and mostly just run around, but I really can't even imagine myself watching over someone's shoulder just to see the gameplay.
Posted 10/09/2009 at 10:24:17 AM
Merle said:
The running around/jumping looks exactly like Prototype.
Something about the animation bugs me, but I can't quite put my finger on it. It just seems off/poorly done for a current generation title.
Posted 10/09/2009 at 10:25:00 AM
Anonymous said:
@ Merle:
I agree with you. Animation looks crappy and right up there with either a PSOne or N64 game.
Posted 10/09/2009 at 10:33:58 AM
Geoff said:
If the story's true, the animation would likely be cleaned up later in development (although I'd much rather have a game underanimated than overanimated - bad memories of horrible European-designed mascot games in the 90s).
This basically looks like someone took a look at Mirror's Edge and thought "okay, how do we actually make this game fun?" Which is, make it faster, add better combat, and make the hero the m'f'n Flash instead of some cliche anti-establishment chick.
Props to using the TV show theme as the soundtrack, too.
Posted 10/09/2009 at 10:46:53 AM
Geoff said:
Oh, and since I know someone else will mention it if I don't:
Justice League Heroes: The Flash is one of the best games on the Game Boy Advance. Definitely hunt a copy down if you haven't played it, if only for a couple of the out-of-nowhere bosses and a really cool callback to Morrison and Millar's tenure on Flash.
Posted 10/09/2009 at 11:03:26 AM
avenon said:
it looks a lot like the Incredible Hulk game on the PS2, which is not a bad thing.
Posted 10/09/2009 at 11:56:15 AM
Crispin said:
I vaguely Recall seeing a PS2 Box for this game some time back. And It was on like, the gamestop site or something!
Posted 10/09/2009 at 12:28:30 PM
Bear said:
Replace The Flash with a guy in a hoodie and it looks just like Prototype...
Posted 10/09/2009 at 12:28:52 PM
AlexB said:
Crappy web application? How many Flash videos do you post a day?
Posted 10/09/2009 at 12:31:53 PM
I thought it looked pretty cool when I found it, although it's obviously from early footage. It does have a very Sonic/Mirror's Edge/Prototype thing going for it but the combat looked pretty cool. And considering there hasn't really been a good sonic game since the Genesis games, this would have probably been great.
I hope another company picks it up...
Posted 10/09/2009 at 12:59:15 PM
Logan Kruck said:
Bah! That game looks like it has so much potential. But so with movie, so with the game...
Posted 10/09/2009 at 01:17:36 PM
Spideymark said:
I watched the video before reading and I thought (unsarcastically) "A game where the hero runs around really fast, that seems kinda familiar" Then I remembered Sonic and felt stupid.
The style does remind me of the Sonic Adventures games a good bit, particularly the bits with him grinding up railings and jumping in the air before smacking back down on a bad guy.
Posted 10/09/2009 at 01:53:35 PM
Jeff said:
I'm pretty sure this is a mod (or some sort of homebrew) for the Superman Returns game that came out a few years ago. The combat and the city look almost identical including the motion blur effect. Supes just used it for flying. That game was terrible, but with some awesome ideas.
Posted 10/09/2009 at 03:24:36 PM
RageTreb said:
This same thing happened with the Ghostbusters game a few years ago, I wouldn't give up all hope yet.
Posted 10/09/2009 at 04:01:51 PM
Anonymous said:
The Flash couldn't move fast enough for me. In fact, I wish he'd run so fast that he vibrates into a 100 foot thick piece of concrete and get stuck halfway though it!
Posted 10/09/2009 at 04:29:39 PM
demoncat said:
too bad warners does not get the makers of this game to do a real one though maybe if the movie happends then the thing will live again even though flash was not fighting any of his rogues in the video
Posted 10/09/2009 at 07:57:19 PM
Some Guy said:
Wow, that's a lot of running.
It looks like either an extremely early build for a current-gen system, or, more likely, something that was developed for the original X-Box system. Kinda neat, but not sure how it would have panned out as an entire game.
Posted 10/09/2009 at 08:42:03 PM
Enigma_2099 said:
You guys bitch about this video like it was a finished product... chances are it would look a lot better once finished...
... as for this game not coming out, let me be the first to say... GOD DAMMIT!!!! It looked promising!!!
Posted 10/10/2009 at 02:17:38 AM
Enigma_2099 said:
I'd also like to add, THIS gets cancelled, yet we get stuck with the Flash in a mediocre fighting game...
GOD DAMMIT!!!!
Posted 10/10/2009 at 02:28:30 AM
Zidel333 said:
Why isn't this real? And yes, he's not fast enough. Here's hoping that DC Universe Online does his more justice! It's funny, because he's a hero for fights for justice too! Except not.
Posted 10/10/2009 at 12:23:10 PM
MagnetJoseph said:
For those of you who are saying the graphics are poor, you're like the most ignorant person ever. It's an unfinished game for goodness sake! It's like saying an unfinished house is crappy compared to a finished one. Idiots!
Posted 10/21/2009 at 01:56:53 PM
Will said:
Give him a messenger bag and it would be a less grimy version of inFamous for the PS3.
Posted 10/21/2009 at 09:42:52 PM

