Yeah, I thought the same thing; the game looks like a graphical upgrade of the older game.

Not sure what else they could do with the game, and with the theory of delivering the same formula that was previously successful, I would imagine they wouldn't change too much.

Maybe that is the reason for the collective groan; same old, same old.

meh

Agreed. I don't know what Joystiq saw when they watched that trailer, because to me it looked like it played exactly like the previous game, but with much better graphics.

I second that as well.. joystiq, are we watching the same video? this is practically the definition of "sequel".

*ahem*

Yeah, guys? Are we remembering the same Ultimate Destruction? That awesome game that I feel is one of the best 'Superhero' games ever? Lemme give a bulletpoint or two of why this trailer is worrying.

- Hulk moves slow. But he did in Ultimate Destruction, too. The difference is that you had the speedrun button. They don't show any speed running here and that worries me because it was a useful thing.

- That jumping seems... iffy. At least when you were chain jumping in UD it seemed like you at least hit the floor before you leapt again. This could just be a fault of the trailer framerate.

- Move variety: *This* is my main worry. Ultimate Destruction had a wide range of moves and abilities that you unlocked and had as you went through the game. I want to know if the new game will have this or not. And the limited range of attacks shown in the trailer doesn't ease my worries about it or not.

I'm not completely knocking it yet. Smashing up buildings is sweet and the game looks really good, too. But it doesn't 'look' good if you understand my meaning.

People need to understand this isn't the same development team that did H:UD. They're working on Prototype. I was looking forward to this game *and* Prototype filling my sandbox smash-o-rama needs but if Incredible Hulk doesn't pan out, then I guess I'll just be sticking with one.

So don't knock Joystiq around, because they're probably seeing it the way I am. Ultimate Destruction was just that dang good and I wanna make sure this lives up to it.

Fuck yes. glad I'm not the only one who thought Ang hulk was good. Seriously people hate the movie because it wasn't 90 minutes of "HULK SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!"

I think people hate the movie because it stole an outdated design element when Dallas left the airwaves, story was decent enough without the last minute villian insertion, the more elaborate fight scenes took place in near absolute darkness, and Hulk stops in the middle of the desert to stare at a fucking bird in a tree....

I'm sure they had good intentions and truthfully, if the villian was removed, the film would have been much better, but all in all, Hulk was all about their pimp CG character and nothing else.

I thought it was about 2/3 of a good movie (and I really enjoyed the soundtrack). It sort of came off the rails at the end, and the introduction of the "absorbing man" father simply failed to make any sense. But it did a lot of things right.

It's apparently just you and McElroy that came away with a bad impression. Literally every other person commenting thinks it appears to play exactly like UD. Sure, I didn't see any speed running, but that doesn't really mean much in a 1 minute trailer. And the jumping looks perfectly fine to me... in fact, it looks exactly like UD.

Here's my explanation:

First off, it's a terrible debut trailer. There's no voice work, no resemblance to the actual movie they're adapting, and a majority of it is composed of cliche, hype-up text. There's only thirty seconds of actual gameplay in there, and it isn't all that compelling. Hulk smash car. Hulk smash another car. Hulk smash robot. Hulk smash another robot. Hulk catch robot foot and throw robot back in what will no doubt be an oft-repeated QTE sequence.

If you did only have thirty seconds to sell your game, would you show your protagonist repeating the same actions, over and over? Would you show your character being flung to the ground by an enemy attack (which does, in fact, happen twice in the trailer, at :25 and :47, for those who think I'm making it up for some reason)? Or would you show him performing a variety of moves in a variety of different settings against a variety of different enemies -- that is, assuming your game has those things. Jesus, they even use the same sound effect of him roaring twice during the trailer.

The gameplay shown in the trailer just doesn't seem to flow well. The Hulk seems very static, he repeats the same attack animations over and over. Compare that to Ultimate Destruction, where you can fling your emerald meathead three stories above the ground, then send him crashing down onto an enemy, or some form of public transportation, which he would then turn into a skateboard.

To say that this trailer exhibits the smooth gameplay and utter chaos of Ultimate Destruction is preposterous. Watch the trailer I linked to in the story, and tell me the two trailers are equals. They are not.

I'm not saying with certainty that the game is going to be terrible. But this trailer is. And if the gameplay shown in this trailer is what we can expect from the finished product, if Sega doesn't have any other tricks up its sleeve, then this will be quickly thrown on the pile of mediocre comic-based-movie-based-games already rotting in the corner.

That said, I'm hoping to be wrong in this case, as I'd like nothing better than a current-gen spiritual successor to Ultimate Destruction.

Griffin McElroy, it's clear to anyone with a brain that this game looks exactly like Ultimate Destruction. So just let it go and step away from Joystiq for a couple days. If you wait long enough, everyone will forget that you made this article.

Now I don't think that's fair to Griff at all. While there *is* a cool thing or two in that trailer it still doesn't do a good job of proving itself being a worthy follow up to Ultimate Destruction.

Yes, there is smashing and bashing going on. But look at that Ultimate Destruction trailer linked in the article and point out to me in the Incredible Hulk trailer where it shows that kind of variety of action.

Ultimate Destruction was awesome for doing the Hulk right and giving a surprising amount of depth into the many different ways you can destroy things. I just want to know if I'll have that again.

Rip-off of Crackdown?

They're rip-offs of Ultimate Destruction, which was out years before Crackdown.