So, where was I? Yes! You start burning your way through "so called" terrorists. They look like humans, but they certainly don't move like humans. They just stand there or walk towards you. You are immune to everything, and have unlimited ammo to your only weapon: a flamethrower. This is more of a tutorial mission, where you get used to the controls and stuff like that. Nothing special about the controls, except you can't see what they are in the options menu, and you can't change them. So far so good.

Yinsen's voice guides you through your "first" steps, just to die without you being able to do anything about it. You finally escape, and this ends your first mission.

As you progress through the game, you unlock Mark I (the first mission was a prototype), Mark II, Mark III and so on of your powerful Iron Man armor. Weapons, armors and flight upgrades are available for future versions of your suit.

After the "desert" mission, Tony Stark is helped by Pepper Potts, his personal assistant, and J.A.R.V.I.S., a sophisticated AI - guiding you through your missions, in your quest to become a better person, save the world and redeem yourself in the process. Yes, it does sound a bit like Miss World, doesn't it?

Mission 2 comes with the introduction of flight, and its two modes: hover and high-speed flight. Control is very annoying and inaccurate, and you keep ending up either on the ground or way up in the clouds. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? NO! It's Iron Man... eeeeh... wait; or was that someone else...

There is an option to invert X and Y axis, which I highly recommend if you made the big mistake of getting this game. It's pretty much the only good option available actually.

The rest of the missions are pretty much of a skirmish: you are placed in a specific warzone, with some (almost stationary) targets, and you have to point and shoot everything that moves. The minimap is supposed to help you, but in most of the cases it doesn't - since it's not 3D at all. I'd say it's rather confusing actually.

In-between the missions, Iron Man has a few FMVs, some more related to the movie than others. I'm neutral about them; they are neither good nor bad.

A kind of interesting thing is that you can redirect power towards one of the three systems of your suit for added firepower; better, speedier movement; or more life regeneration/added defense. Use keys 1-4 to switch between those modes. Extra firepower for example will enable that cool chest beam we all grew to love.

The only credit for this game could be given to the sounds. Wait, erase that. Sounds are pathetic. Read: voice acting is decent. Original movie actors Robert Downey Jr. and Shaun Toub amongst other gave a voice to the Iron Man videogame dialogues and did a good job. Too bad Gwyneth Paltrow didn't voice Pepper as well...