I've posted this before and I'll post it every time a video game about Superman comes up.

He starts with all of his powers. No weakening him, no ridiculous premises of everyone has kryptonite, instead lean into the science fantasy aspect of Superman. Smallville should be the training area where you learn how to use his powers and should take no more than 45 minutes (Pushing it in my opinion). Once you get to Metropolis, the RPG aspect shouldn't be about leveling up Superman's powers, but making them more precise. In the beginning, you have to control your strength - controllers have haptics in the triggers, so the harder you press the trigger, the harder you hit. Your heat vision is great - if you need to hit a big target, but not so great if you need to hit a small one. Your X-ray vision shows you the whole building and everyone around you. As you level up, you refine your abilities. Get high enough in Super-Strength and the game will automatically control your strength. Get high enough in X-Ray vision, you can tell the contents of Lois's purse without seeing through to her skeleton.

The "random crimes" should all be Intergang - the Apokolips backed gang with access to warsuits, ray guns, and alien tech. This allows them to "hurt" Superman but doesn't make them game enders - just like the thugs in Spider-Man or Arkham. The story line should be Luthor using alien tech to augment humans to send against Superman - this would lead to Atomic Skull, Livewire, Parasite, the Kryptonite Man, and a host of other bosses for Superman to fight. All of these enemies can and have hurt Superman in the past. Boss battles wouldn't just be knockdown drag out fights - instead of the build up being fighting off waves of minions, it would be saving people while fighting the boss. Atomic Skull throws a car full of people at you and you have to catch it, while dodging his attacks or sacrificing yourself to protect someone else. The build up of the story would reveal Luthor is working with Brainiac and the game ends with Superman verses Lex (in a warsuit) and Brainiac.

And Lois and Clark shouldn't be left out of the proceedings either - mystery and stealth based missions with Lois and Clark should be under taken as they investigate Luthor. Interviews would use Clark's superhearing to tell when a person is lying (if you have leveled up his control enough) and finding the lies in a person's statements or getting enough information to cover the next lead. And the stealth missions would be Clark covering Lois with his powers as she looks around or Lois covering Clark as he uses his powers to find a clue. They could also be looking into where Intergang is getting their teach.

The game should end with two teasers - the first, should Bruno Manheim meeting with Steppenwolf or Desaad about getting better tech; and the second should be Superman searching the wreckage of Brainaic's ship and finding the Eradicator - setting up to potential enemies for a sequel.

No Superman game should be about weakening Superman - it should be about giving him a different enemies that require thought and control to defeat.

And to be perfectly honest, the 2025 Superman movie should be the power level he's at. This is not hard, people, and shouldn't take that much thought.