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The Incredible Hulk captured in screenshots

by Ludwig Kietzmann on Mar 14th 2008 6:30PM

Click to embiggen. That's right, we said "embiggen."

It's a Banner year for Sega, with the publisher getting ready to unleash The Incredible Hulk this June alongside the Edward Norton-starring film and franchise reboot. Marvel's green goon will be gleefully smashing things on just about every platform imaginable (sorry, PSP!) in what we hope will be similar gameplay to that found in 2005's The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction.

Sega promises that no building will be left unscathed as you do battle with classic Hulk villains such as Abomination, Bi-Beast and, judging by the background of the above screenshot, Mister Clip. "Muahaha, you call those collisions, Hulk? I can barely detect them! Etc!"

The Incredible Hulk ("Next-gen" version)

Tags: DS, Edge-of-Reality, Hulk, PC, PS2, PS3, Sega, The-Incredible-Hulk, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (40)

The number of polygons that make up the Hulk model is 'incredible'

Or just bump mapping.

He's just normal mapped. It is a difficult and time consuming process to normal map a character, i'm just surprised sega even bothered

Not nearly enough as DOA uses for breasts :)

Bi-Beast, huh? Introducing Destructo-Tranny.

looks like crazy taxi with the hulk.

Hulk's model looks decent. but damn everything else looks hella ugly.

Hopefully it looks better in motion?

Is that a NSFW ad on the bus I see?

AI of the civilians may not be too great... I'm predicting worse-than-Assassin's-Creed kind of behaviour. Look at picture 5/14. A huge green guy is smashing stuff up but the people are just walking about. Indeedy.

Hulk Theft Auto, city the size of GTA, except, this time, you're invincible, you don't drive cars, just throw them, YAY!

Really? People are gonna moan about clipping? Well guess what?! Pong had NO clipping, if clipping makes or breaks a game, play that.

Is The Incredible Hulk suffering from the next-gen effect? He looks more brown than green.

The Hulk has a shadow but none of the vehicles do.

While the Hulk himself looks impressive everything else looks like generic video game ass. Like those Coke ad's or that Chilli peppers video made to look like a generic game world.

Erm... didn't they already made a Hulk game like 4 years ago?

Haha... wow. Mr. Clip. That made me lol.

I want someone to make a game that parodies bad video games. Kind of like what the creators of Scary Movie, Epic Movie, etc. do.

Except... don't make the game as bad of a game as Epic movie was of a movie.

I love Sudoku! LOL.

Joystiq: Stop it with the "embiggen" thing: It's not cromulent, anymore!

As for the pic...looks good enought.

No... it doesn't.

it doesnt embiggen by much...

that's what she said

that is the fugliest city i have ever seen.

see, i was hoping so hard for this gen of graphics to be able to round out things that are supposed to be, ya know, round. not that octahexapolygonal shit going on around the bus tires. or in most shooters, the barrels of the guns. the only ones that have really addressed that is capcom. sorry, just a HUGE peeve i have.

Looks like the Iron Man team is doing a much better job:

http://marvel.com/videos/283.Spring_Fling%7Ecolon%7E_2nd_Iron_Man_Video_Game_Trailer

ugh. Why couldn't they just get the team that did Ultimate Destruction. Now that was an awesome Hulk game.

I completely agree. I still own Ultimate Destruction. More games need the engine that it uses. Combining that engine and the Unreal engine would quite possibly make the best game ever.

Seriously, Ultimate Destruction is the game I go into when I am angry and feel like destroying a bunch of buildings for no reason other than the fact I am angry.

It's quite theraputic. :D

Because they're making that other thing?

You know with the guy and blood and buildings and whatnot.

Pretty sure there are bad army peoples in it as well.

@Kaioh:

check out "Prototype"... ;)

@ The Insider

Shhh, don't make it too obvious.

I wanted them to work their little heads.

heh.

"Banner" year.

Try as I may, I can't quite decide whether that was intentional or not.

i actually really enjoyed ultimate destruction. and sega lets me down more often than not. i cant even remember the last decent game sega made.

*cough cough*

Condemned.

Sega published condemned, monolith developed it. i shoulda been more specific.

Crush.

Ultimate Destruction was one of my favorite all-time games. If they can come close to recapturing that magic I'll be a happy camper. Fingers crossed!

-Dante
http://www.gamestache.com/

Rumor has it the game plays like Ultimate Destruction, but I don't know. I don't think the whole screenshot looks bad, just...lazy. Rather than picking an art direction that the whole game could benefit from, they went overboard on the Hulk, then couldn't keep up that level of detail (or that particular gritty art-style) for the rest of the game world. And rather than hard-coding the edges of the polygonal characters to avoid clipping, they just said screw it and saved a ton of room.

I, personally, don't need everything to look as good as possible from a distance. K.I.S.S. If a game looks consistent and plays well, the graphical level is meaningless. If it looks hacked together, on the other hand...

Well, he has the same "car gloves" in one of the screenshots as he had in ultimate destruction.

Actually, it kinda makes sense to put most of the effort into the hulk model.. he's the one on screen all the time, he's the character that people want to "be".

If it plays like UD then all the rest is just gonna get smashed up or fly by at highspeed anyway. If its as fully destructible as everything in UD then that'd probably explain the lower poly parts.

I'd rather you just link to the source so 'embiggen' actually makes them BIG instead slightly less small.

http://marvel.com/news/vgstories.2905.Green_Rage%7Ecolon%7E_13_Incredible_Hulk_Game_Shots

I love Sega and I sure like The Hulk even when its villain’s kind of suck but hell the only Marvel characters with good Villains are the Xmen, Spiderman and the Fantastic Four well some FF are Villains are good.

The game it self looks decent but Hulk looks kind of gray also that Mr “Who needs to detect object collision” over there makes the whole thing look bad. Well at least isn’t like EA’s bullshot.

If Iron-man results good I would keep an eye on this, I’m still a Sega fanboy.

Collision detection and Banner(Hulk) puns were laugh worthy.

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