Iron Man free app arrives iPhone and iPod touch this week. Marvel Entertainment and Zumobi have teamed up to bring this application as a gift for the upcoming Iron Man 2 movie. It will keep fans connected to the entire Iron Man universe; provide video clips; downloadable wallpapers; access to movie tickets and much more.
As Mashable reported, Zumobi designed the app to fit in with the existing Iron Man motif. The graphics and colours match the film and comic series, and elements of the apps control panel mimic the HUD (heads-up display) that resides inside Tony Stark’s Iron Man helmet. The video clips feature a variety of TV commercials for Iron Man 2 and its tie-in sponsors (like Dr Pepper and Audi) and there are also links to clips from the film, which match up with what Marvel has been posting to its official YouTube page.
The news section is one of the most interesting because it assembles news not just about the film, but about the comics and the related universe as well. So fans can read details about upcoming books in Avengers series, find out about collectibles or special edition memorabilia that’s coming out, get a look at movie posters, movie clips and more.
Marvel impels out literally dozens of news items a day about each of its different properties and the Iron Man iPhone app is updated as soon as those articles hit the web. For newer fans to the series who might want to learn more about Iron Man and the other characters in the series, there is a genesis area that gives background as to the character’s history, his stats, the cool stuff he can do and so on.
However, the iPhone and iPod touch have already access to the Iron Man app now, but an app that is optimized for the iPad will be available soon. This app will have some of the same features of the Iron Man iPhone app but the extra space and faster processor of the iPad will be utilized to give an even more immersive look and feel.
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