X-Men Origins: Wolverine (PS3)

Everyone's favorite cigar-chomping, catch-phrase slinging, animalistic mutant makes his next-gen solo debut with X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but when the shiny adamantium coating begins to tarnish, gamers are left with a simplistic hack-and-slash movie tie-in that can't quite match the titular antihero's badass attitude and image.

THE VERDICT by McKinley Noble McKinley Noble's Avatar Will's definitely the biggest comic book fan in the office, so I was a bit surprised to hear that this Wolverine game got so repetitive. Still, the score's not bad by any means, so I'm still going to be picking up the game after I see the movie. How else am I going to get my Sentinel-fighting fix?

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To tie in with Fox's latest action-packed extravaganza, X-Men Origins: Wolverine follows the story of Logan, the enigmatic mutant that everyone and their mother knows and loves. From his days running with Colonel Stryker to the infamous Weapon X incident, Origins covers quite a bit of the mutant's backstory; unfortunately, much of it is ground we've covered time and time again in past X-Men games like X2: Wolverine's Revenge and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. Thankfully, the folks at Raven tried to pull something new with our feral friend but after an incredibly strong opening set in the ancient ruins of Africa, Origins falls victim to repetitive gameplay that basically boils down to the following formula: hack, slash, lunge, repeat.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Don't get me wrong: Origins isn't a bad game by any means. You're going to be wowed the first time you lunge fifty feet through the air and slash a baddie halfway across the screen. The first time I fought a gargantuan golem made of molten rock called a Leviathan, I was grinning from ear to ear. However, the thrills lessened each subsequent time I faced the same exact creature. This is Origins' biggest fault: it has a habit of introducing an interesting game concept only to run it straight into the ground.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

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ChitownShogun73

I really enjoyed the game. It's a poor man's God of War but it is on the small list of good movie based video games.

Dread

my bro got this and said it was really good, i downloaded the demo to see and omg! ive never seen a x-men game be so gory, i was shocked i think i may like the game better than the movie. definatly worth getting at least try the demo, i did and im hooked

iamthegamepro

I'm actually surprised that it has received so much attention from the media. Its definitely not worth 60 bones but Wolverine fans will love this game regardless. The game seems like a strong rental and It would be a great buy when it hits the 10 dollar bargain bin at best buy.

neji64

iamthegamepro wrote:

I'm actually surprised that it has received so much attention from the media. Its definitely not worth 60 bones but Wolverine fans will love this game regardless. The game seems like a strong rental and It would be a great buy when it hits the 10 dollar bargain bin at best buy.

i agree with you maybe around August

James_Earl_Cash

The_Iceman wrote:

I bet this tanks, the movie looks entertaining though

I have been saying this for a long time, the movie is a bad idea...haven't we suffered enough.

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