X Men Origins:
Wolverine is easily the darkest and
most violent Marvel video game to be
released in the past five years.
Which is odd because the film it's
based on is intense but somewhat
tame when it comes to violence. That
said blood flies, and so do heads
for that matter, in X-Men Origins:
Wolverine the game. It's rare that
violence in a video game would be
the first thing talked about , but
with a movie adaptation this game's
darkness and intensity seriously
adds to the story and certain
qualities should have been applied
to the film as well as the game.
Even though the
game follows the basis of the movie
it takes a certain amount of time to
finish the game to find any kind of
movie spoilers in the game before
you see the movie. More than the few
spoilers, there are a ton of extra
villains, bosses, and stages that
make this game more about Wolverine
the character than the movie did.
And those extra villains/bosses
added into the storyline are
actually kind of cool and don't camp
things up in the least amount.
Without giving things away
completely Wolverine has to square
off against a giant robot in the
latter stages of the game... and
that is excellent.
The gameplay of
the Wolverine is actually great for
a 3rd Person action game. There are
clipping flaws in places but nothing
to be too concerned about and the
puzzles in the game are somewhat
challenging to go along with the
button mashing you do as everybody's
favorite X-man.
Hugh
Jackman also does the voice for the
game which doesn't take away from it
at all and he actually does a great
job with his voice over work.
The
graphics and textures of the game
are well done but the only knock is
the load time for some of the videos
and in spots the stages.
The biggest
problem with X-Men Origins: Wolverine
is it's replayablity value. There's
not much to be had here. The normal
difficulty of the game isn't that
hard and hard becomes unlockable
when you beat the game on normal.
There's also some minor collectables
to be found during the game but for
a button-masher like this one it can
prove to be slightly exhausting.
The cool thing
about video games is you get to be
taken into the role of the main
character and what you did is
represented on your TV. That's why a
slow motion action sequence is bad
ass in a video game but overdone in
a movie. And that's what happens
with Wolverine. It's the rare
occurrence where the game is better
than the movie.
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