So far they have canceled two games. Superman would have to be controlled like Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham.
Ever since Batman: Arkham Asylum was released and took the gaming world by storm by showing us how a superhero-based game could be masterfully made, many DC comics fans have speculated how Warner Bros Interactive could capitalize on the hype and release games based on a superhero. on other characters. The first that comes to mind is Superman, DC's most important character, but his best-known career in video games is Superman 64, and not for being good.
Warner tried more than once
According to a recent leak, Warner Bros Interactive has been wanting to release a Superman game at the height of the Man of Steel for years. It's been listening to ideas from directors since at least 2013 and the furthest one of those games got was to the prototype stage that would have an open world similar to the Spider-Man adventure that came out last year on PlayStation 4.
Another of those Superman games would be one called Superman: Unbound that would have a more linear development. It would have been located in a city called Kandor and would have Brainiac and Doomsday as the main villains. It was canceled because Warner saw the huge success of Rocksteady Games' Batman Arkham and wanted all DC comic derivative games to use the same engine. This caused the development team to fail to make the combat work with the character of the man of steel. The same happened with a game based on Suicide Squad that would take advantage of the movie's media pull.
For now, it seems that Warner Bros has pretty much abandoned the idea of releasing more games based on DC comics. He has been making us beg for years with a new Batman who is speculated that he will have The Court of Owls as villains, and it is also speculated that a Justice League game was canceled that was never confirmed. But according to the person who has leaked the rumor, Warner Bros is still open to continue receiving ideas to make DC Comics games, although we imagine that now they are more cautious not to overexploit the franchises.
Source: Dualshockers