5 Reasons Wolverine the Video Game is Better than the Movie
- May 05, 2009 11:12 AM PST
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WOLVERINE VS. WOLVERINE: Here are five reasons why the video game version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine is better than the movie.
READ: GamePro's X-men Origins: Wolverine Review!
Okay, so maybe it's not God of War II (in fact, it suffers from more than a few drawbacks), but X-men: Origins Wolverine is a hundred times better than the new brain-meltingly rotten film starring Hugh Jackman. Here's five of the reasons why.
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5. More X-Men Lore in the Game
The team behind the game has said in interviews that 90% of what you see in the film X-Men Origins: Wolverine is featured in its video game counterpart. But the events in the movie make up less than half of what's in the game. To put it in other words, fans of the Adamantium-clawed, raging mutant will get to experience a great deal more of Wolverine's savage adventures in the game.
4. Vastly Better Fights with Wolverine's Enemies, including a 300-Foot-Tall Sentinel that's Not in the Movie at all
Without spoiling the X-Men Origins: Wolverine game for anyone, let's just say that the boss fight against the card-throwing Cajun mutant, Gambit, is hands-down one of the most epic moments in the game. As for the fight against the two iconic characters in the film, well... it's not memorable at all, and is actually one of the weaker action sequences in the whole flick. Wolverine's insanely intense battle against a skyscraper-sized killer Sentinel in the game isn't even in the film at all.
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3. Not as Much Embarrassingly Stupid-Looking Weapon XI
While X-Men Origins: Wolverine wasn't quite as horrendous as X-Men 3: The Last Stand, I simultaneously wanted to laugh and vomit when Weapon XI appeared on the screen. His face is supposed to be surgically sealed shut, but it just looks silly and fake. He also looks like someone took a sharpie to his bare chest and drew a bunch of lines all over him. To top it all off, he's played by Ryan Reynolds when he's still Deadpool, who's one notch below Ashton Kutcher on the douche meter. Thankfully, his presence in the game is toned down a whole bunch.
2. It's Our First Taste of What a Next-Gen God of War Game Will Feel Like.
The combat in the game definitely borrows a lot from Kratos' slew of vicious attacks, to the point where it feels like you're playing an X-Men-skinned version of God of War as you're ripping packs of enemies apart. And while the game fails to reach the caliber of any game in the God of War series, from the original to Chains of Olympus, it should please GoW fans, making the wait for God of War III a bit more bearable.
1. Blood and Guts with a Severed Head on Top.
Within the first few seconds of booting up X-Men Origins: Wolverine, you'll know how relentlessly gruesome this bloodbath of a video game is. In the game's opening, Wolvie uses his triple-bladed Ginsus to butcher several soldiers, stabbing one through his skull and going Jack the Ripper-stab crazy on the bellies of two others. Wolverine then gets a shotgun blast to his torso, and the camera gives us an up close look at the gaping hole in him, which begins to fill up with flesh and muscle.
Mind you, this is all within the first couple of minutes of the game. You can also behead enemies, hack off their arms and legs, use your claws as a human-eating blender, and even ram your claws into their chests, slicing downward and splitting them open like a fish.
If you couldn't tell, Wolverine is a Mature-rated game while hardly a drop of blood is shown in the film, which has a PG-13 rating.
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- May 01 2009 at 06:06:22:PM PST
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Wolverine is one of the most iconic comic book characters of all time. After three Major Motion Pictures you would think the first X-Men Origins would be amazing. I'm going to save $8.50 and purchase the game.
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Coconuts wrote:
Wolverine is one of the most iconic comic book characters of all time. After three Major Motion Pictures you would think the first X-Men Origins would be amazing. I'm going to save $8.50 and purchase the game.
Don't take others word on this one. I liked the movie and I like the game as well. Superhero movies are cheesy by nature, they are comic books after all. And maybe Ryan Reynolds looks fake because IT IS FAKE. Playing video games all the time many of us tend to have a keener eye than most, but if most of us gamers can tell CGI a mile away, the general public can't, so go see the movie and take it for what it's worth, a super fictional character based on a fictional comic book with fake effects and makeup. Maybe now you can enjoy it without expecting it to be real....christ.
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Both Ryan Reynolds and Ashton Kutcher are great actors. I don't care what anyone says.
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The movie is no where near as bad as what you guys are trying to make it out to be. I know it messed up most of Wolvie's real origins in the comics, but speaking as a comic book fan I understand that for the movie they have to make changes for those that are not that familiar with the backstory. Jackman once again did a great job as Wolverine and honestly I could not imagine anyone else in the role. Liev and Reynolds did great as Sabretooth and Deadpool respectively although I would have liked more pre-Weapon XI screentime for Reynolds. The fight with Gambit left something to be desired, but it was great to finally see him in an X-Men film. As for the game I will admit that it is awesome and is probably the best movie tie-in game ever in my opinion.
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3. Not as Much Embarrassingly Stupid-Looking Ryan Reynolds as Weapon XI
FAIL - Scott Adkins played Weapon XI! that's him under the make-up not Ryan Reynolds.
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Movie makers seem to be sooo afraid of the r rating. Hell, I ain't interested in no sugar puff version of Wolverine. In the comics, Wolverine would F#ck you up seriously. There's plenty of Disney and Nick movies for the kids. America is one of the most violent Countries in the world, yet when it comes to movie, the producer wanna develop a conscience all of a sudden and take something that is originally violent from it's origin source and sugar and spice it into the power puff girls. I wish the movie makers would grow some real balls and stop f#cking up great original properties. Hell, I won't even go see DB evolution. Why in the hell does Goku look more like the kid from the wonder years in that movie I have no idea?
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Though I would agree with Tical1323 that Hugh Jackman makes a great Wolverine and he plays his part well, it is not his fault nor his script so I can't blame him. Honestly I ain't seen Origins yet, but based off the past 3 x-man movies, aside from some descent effects, I still think the movies sucked ass bad. The Spider man movies however, I liked. I guess because what they did worked giving the fact that Spidey is no where near as violent as Wolverine.
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Swarley92 wrote:
Both Ryan Reynolds and Ashton Kutcher are great actors. I don't care what anyone says.
He said "Great Actors" LMAO!!! I'd they say they're great at doing comedy flicks,but I wouldn't go so far as to say either of them were great actors. But hey,that's just me.
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