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This often leads to confusion for retro gamers. Expecting the sprawling 3D city found on consoles, PC players instead received a linear, isometric action game. While it wasn't necessarily "bad," it certainly wasn't the immersive open-world experience the marketing materials suggested. This disconnect is a primary reason why the PC version is rarely discussed in retro gaming circles—it exists in a weird limbo between handheld and console gaming.

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When the game launched, the Xbox 360 version was the flagship—it featured the open-world "Superman vs. The City" mechanic where you had to protect Metropolis from destruction. However, the PC version was not a port of the 360 version. Instead, it was largely a port of the Nintendo DS version, stylized as a top-down, beat-'em-up arcade game.

The game featured an 80-square-mile recreation of Metropolis with over 7,000 interactive buildings.