X-Men Origins: Wolverine Video Game. Leave a review!

The game actually comes off as being very good, but that will ware off after the first few hours as gameplay becomes very repetitive, lunge slash slash, lunge slash slash. Graphically the game is good running on the unreal 3 engine and the game rounds out very well with A list voice acting. As a movie game it is above most others but the game will be quickly forgotten as the summer months move on.

I was one of the few lucky ones who managed to rent this from my area since they sold like hotcakes. This blog is about the PS3 version of the game. The game is entirely based on the movie, but tends to stray into some other scenarios not shown from the movie. Though main events from the movie do show up. The game starts ou in the not too distant future where you already begin to get a premise for the game. The cutscene shows Wolvie brutally slicing and dicing opponents to bits and it's very gory, M-Rated. Wolvie also mentions that he doesn't remember his past and so a flashback is shown to Africa, where the game actually begins.

That's when the game starts to follow the movie and shows his adventures with Team X in Africa as well as the increasing tension between him and the team. Though, I would have liked to see more character development, since they only show how his character has changed with only a few cutscenes. The game also isn't too long, only 5 main missions, which take about 2 hours each to complete except the last one which'll take around 10-20 minutes.

Gameplay 9.0
There are plenty of moves to choose from and a combination of the variety of moves nets you more experience quicker. The experience is used to buy new moves and each type of enemy you fight gains you experience for a reflex meter that allows you to kill that enemy more easily the next time you encounter them. For example, there's 5 main types of enemies, machetes, machine gunners, special forces, jungle mutants, and robots. Also there are mutagens in the game, you can only equip 3 maximum, that allow you to gain special abilities like more experience or a longer life bar.

Wolverine can heal so there are basically 2 life bars. The heart shaped one is your health overall and the long bar is your healing factor kicking in to replenish the heart. So if you're taking a beating try and find a safe spot to heal both up. The difficulty of the game on normal is pretty easy, I only died around 4-5 and around 3 of those were because of bad jumps or glitches. I never lost a boss fight, except maybe once, since each boss was pretty easy or really easy, especially the last bosses.

The worst thing about the gameplay was the glitches and freezing. The graphics were really good but the amount of times the game froze were unacceptable. Even when the screen was all clear and I only fought one enemy it froze. It happened 6-10 times throughout the entire game which is frustrating. Thlugh I'm glad they stuck in checkpoints every 5 minutes of gameplay.

Story 7.0
I was quite disappointed with the story. The game looked like it had potential with exploring different elements, but it looked like it was tied down with a ball and chain to the movie. Whenever you explored something different like Mystique's origins, the game immediately went back to the movie and centered around the movie again. In fact there were some cutscenes I don't think you'd really understand if you haven't seen the movie. Wolvie also takes some famous lines from the movie, but sometimes they don't work so well and seem really cheesy in gameplay.

At the very end of the game though the last cutscene shoots back to the future and you see a scene that goes beyond the movie and shows a possibility for a sequel. I like segments like that where it breaks the chains from the movie and is free to explore on its own.

Sound 8.0
There really wasn't much music to the game, though the sound effects to the killing animations were done quite nicely. There were quite a bunch of brutal killing animations and they each had their own unique sound, which was awesome. Though I wish they had a main score to the game.

Fun Factor 9.0
There was a lot of gameplay which was mixed around from skydiving to looking through the eyes of a sniper shooting at Wolvie to fighting the very first sentinel ever created on ground and then in air. The trophies are also pretty fun to collect but get boring when you h

After all of the buzz around this game as the best new movie game around, I can safely state that this game is the best there is at what it does, what it does isn’t very nice, but it certainly is a lot of fun. The game starts the player out as everyone’s favorite mutant as he lives out his days in the Weapon X program. Much as the movie does, you’ll find yourself playing through the Origins of Logan, starting from his memories with Victor Creed and the Adamantium bonding process. As you progress throughout the game you’ll be able to “upgrade” or customize the abilities Logan has at his disposal such as health, claw damage, etc. You will feel like Wolverine and many aspects of the game culminate in this perfectly deadly exhilaration.

The game is rated “M” for mature and it uses this rating to its full extent. The man has claws, and they cut things. You’ll find yourself moving through this game slicing off limbs and leaving blood and carnage everywhere you go. You will also be able to utilize Logan’s healing factor, and a variety of cookie cutter combo moves to eradicate anything standing in your way. The move that has many fans all abuzz is the “lunge” or jump move, which is when Logan leaps into the air impaling your victim with his claws. This is an essential move to the game (and the best way to beat boss characters *wink wink*) and literally has the ability to clear rivers. The game gives you a wide variety of X-men universe cameos along with un-lockable costumes that make fans of Wolverine happy. This guarantees that any fan will have something to enjoy.

The most important thing about a game is its gameplay and here, once again, Wolverine: Origins delivers with simple yet solid action. The best aspects about the game come down to two simple things, fighting and healing. The healing factor allows you to become what I like to playfully call a “human bullet sponge” as Wolverine takes all kinds of punishment from machine gun rounds, to explosives such as C4 and rocket launchers, to helicopter blades, Sentinels and giant Wendigo beasts, and simply heals right before your very eyes. In fact your avatar will take a great deal of damage and you may even see a bit of Adamantium skeleton before Logan heals up and is as good as new.

Sometimes the game feels unfair throwing this many poor individuals to be slaughtered by your Adamantium rage. Hordes of enemies run your way and this makes the game almost feel like a classic hack and slash Dynasty Warriors game. However, we come full circle to the sheer fun of slicing up your opponents. The kills are certainly epic and gruesome. They are guaranteed to command a great deal of groans from gamers and onlookers alike. Some good examples include decapitations, making a few new holes for the stomach, removing legs, rearranging the windpipe, and ripping poor souls in half. On the other hand, this simple “tank through the entire game” style of play may have people feeling like the game is a bit repetitive, however, the replay value of this game is endless and enjoyable. The feel of the game is vibrant and real, as Raven Software has designed levels that won’t make you gasp with amazement, but allow you to interact in certain “hot spots” to kill your opponents even faster than you would with your claws.

My final verdict is that X-Men Origins: Wolverine promptly tells the tale of Marvel’s MVP mutant as accurately as the movie script allows. It offers us good old fashioned violent fun with a variety of kills, and gives the gamers a good challenge while doing so by throwing a few puzzles in with your gore. It also gives a nod to classic X-Men and Wolverine fans with an extended story mode, and classic costumes. This game makes us and Wolverine feel like the true Weapon X and for that, I compliment them. While game play may feel a bit repetitive (mainly gut, behead, jump, and repeat) you will always feel like you’re having fun, which is the real point of video games

This is one of the better videogame adaptations - the game stands up graphically... and the gameplay is just brutal in places.

Hours of fun... but possibly one to miss for non-fans.

But... if you like a lot of claret in your games (along with limbs flying everywhere), you won't go wrong with Wolverine. :)

Hi there people Zwan008 here, now let me just say that I have this game at home and believe me it is one of the most violent x-men games I have ever played.

If we can cast our minds back to 2002 when the X2 film made its debut and we all wanted to know if there was ever going to be a x-men game at that time. Well our prayers have been answered, along came (wait for it) 'X2 Wolverine's Revenge' this was released on the Playstation 2 and X-Box. Now in 2009 x-men origins came onto our screens and Activision then decided on revamping the old Wolverine adventure and turning it into what we know now as one of the best X-men games in years.

The gameplay itself is the same as Wolverine's Revenge, but most of the imphesis of the game is focusing on the gory finishers and also the amount of blood which gives it that effect into worth getting for.

The characters voice-overs are also very good so a big thankyou to the hollywood stars (Hugh Jackman & Liev Scheriber) for providing their voices for this game, the backgrounds and the characters are awesome as this has to be the biggest improvement of all comparing to Wolverine's revenge. But in the end there a few flaws for this game, the first is the repetitive combat, the second is the fight moves as there is only a small amount (even Conan had 150 fight moves), and the third is no stealth mode, here we have wolverine who is a master of stealth and tactics, so no stealth missions (Shock, Horror).

Overall the game itself is quite entertaining, gory and fun but it can get a bit boring by backtracking and having the same combat moves being done over and over again, but in the end this has to be one of the games that wil be in our 'Top Ten Chart' for the month of May.