Disappointed with the new Wolverine movie? Play the game!

Written by Daniel Lloyd

Friday, 01 May 2009 15:11

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If you're like me, you were bored to tears with the new Wolverine movie. What started out as a decent revenge and origin story, got real silly real fast, with plot holes and unnecessary cameos making it feel spread too thin. However, the new game, out now, is everything the movie wasn't and should have been.

The demo starts out with a brutal cutscene. Right away, you know this isn't your father's X-Men Origins: Wolverine. It's bloody. Really bloody. There are adamantium claws going into and through people, as well as various appendages being seperated from their respective bodies. It's the kind of badassery Wolverine was always meant to be. After this intro, you start the game falling out of a helicopter into the African jungle. That's right, you START a DEMO by falling out a recently destroyed helicopter, avoiding rockets, and landing claws-first into an unsuspecting soldier's head! Hells to the yes!

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The rest of the demo has you hacking and slashing your way through the jungle, putting an end to various natives, soldiers, and flame engulfed machete experts. It's very much inspired by the Devil May Cry and God of War series. You level up, gaining more powerful attacks and abilities. It's a button masher, but fun and fresh. There's a "feral sense" mechanic that highlights a path to take, enemies to attack, and objects in the environment that are interactive. Spikes on the wall? Go ahead and just throw and enemy onto them, then jump on him and punch his face off.

The short but very very violently sweet demo has you hijacking jeeps, climbing up cut down rope bridges, and my personal favorite, attacking a helicopter pilot mid-air. The Xbox and PS3 versions are rated M, as they should be. I'm not exaggerating while telling you it is balls to the wall bloody and violent. It's all in good fun though, and I really wish the movie would have had an ounce of this in it. The demo leaves off with the teaser of a crazy boss fight, so I'll definitely be looking to pick this up soon.

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written by JJ BANKS, May 04, 2009

I played this all weekend and the game rocks! Never before has the movements and style of Wolverine been captured in accordance to the comics.

What was the old saying "Good movie = bad video game" well I guess in this case "Bad movie = awesome video game".

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