X-Men Origins: Wolverine Is Going To Be Awesome

by Justin McElroy { Jan 6th 2009 at 2:54PM }

A Play in One Act
by Electronic Gaming Monthly

Lights rise at Raven HQ on X-Men Origins: Wolverine Project Lead Dan Vondrak, sporting a Marvel T-shirt.

VONDRAK. I've read reviews of Wolverine games, I've played previous X-Men games, and you just hate it when you're like, 'This isn't what it's supposed to be like to fight this guy. I'm Wolverine. How come I can't ever just grab a guy and rip him in half?' Yeah, absolutely -- let's do that. Nothing's holding us back.

Curtain.

Tags: activision, egm, marvel, raven, wolverine

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

=Lord Negatron of the XBots= @ Jan 6th 2009 3:03PM

I hope its more true to Wolverine's character,just comics in general. Of course companies keep things kid friendly for monetary value but dammit!

If i buy one more Marvel/DC or what ever game to fight endless waves of robots. I am go-wait a second...

PSN: Aggie_CEO @ Jan 6th 2009 3:07PM

smh

RiccochetJ @ Jan 6th 2009 3:14PM

I read the full article and it sounds particularly vicious. They talk about one scene where Wolverine grabs a soldier and lifts him up into some spinning chopper blades. That plus decapitations, limbs lopped off etc.

I'm cautiously optimistic that this may actually be good.

Blazur @ Jan 6th 2009 3:26PM

Perhaps the success of Dead Space has inspired them?

PSN: Aggie_CEO @ Jan 6th 2009 3:06PM

yea in order to get the money this is going to be NOTHING like a REAL Wolverine thing........but what the hell........as long as they do it SOME Justice......

Dirty @ Jan 6th 2009 3:14PM

I can take a few compromises, but I think video games that are M rated do just fine, unlike R movies.

The movie looks cool.... though I feel both will fall short of the hopes and dreams of the ultimate wolverine movie/game.

PSN: Aggie_CEO @ Jan 6th 2009 3:58PM

yea would be nice for this to be an 'M' rated game.........but I doubt it will be

J-Link @ Jan 6th 2009 3:09PM

I hope this is true. I'm tired of being told Ironman or some comic book game will be the 'deffinative' expierience, so I hope this lives up to it. BTW I thought X2: Wolverine's Revenge was ok.

The Dark Wayne @ Jan 6th 2009 3:43PM

I didnt think the X-men 3 game was that bad either, sadly the wolverine and iceman parts were mediocre at best, the Nightcrawler parts were incredible

J-Link @ Jan 6th 2009 5:45PM

Hmm, I never played the X3 game, I do know it didn't have the same plot as the movie and Nightcrawler would have the best levels because he is one of the best X-men:D.

Alien Lord @ Jan 6th 2009 3:13PM

When all the old people die off the world will realize games aren't JUST for kids but more for adults and start making more adult games.

BlaqueBeird @ Jan 6th 2009 4:37PM

That's actually less true than you think. Kids are supposed to play video games, plain and simple. Most of us just never stopped when we grew up. My nephew finally beat all my scores on Guitar Hero, and it made my day.

Alien Lord @ Jan 6th 2009 5:54PM

Games are like books or movies in the since they are an artist medium. Sure there will always be kids games but the archaic attitude that games are for kids will die.

(The Award-Winning) dark_inchworm @ Jan 6th 2009 6:04PM

It ain't just gaming that's suffering, buddy. It's not even necessarily that developers are catering to kiddies. The problem lies within the corporate world's neverending quest for maximum income. Not everyone can walk right into a screening of an R-rated movie, so any popular book or comic book that you'd imagine would be a sleazefest will be neutered to PG-13. Everyone can see it, so the studios benefit. The same applies to games... stick with the original creative vision, or push out something that'll rake in the bucks? In almost all cases, the latter path is chosen.

You probably get sick of hearing this, but your best bet to stop it is to vote with your money. Though that likely won't drive away this curse soon, if ever.

AwesomeTown @ Jan 6th 2009 3:20PM

I read that full article and while it does sound pretty awesome and that I hope it will be pretty awesome, I can't help but think of Dead to Rights. A game built around cool killing moves but the final product just isn't good.

Obie @ Jan 6th 2009 3:21PM

SNIKT!!!!!!!

The Dark Wayne @ Jan 6th 2009 3:42PM

Superstar90 @ Jan 6th 2009 4:08PM

Now I know what sound metal-laced bones make when coming out in between metal-laced knuckles.

Who says comics can't teach you stuff?

The Dark Wayne @ Jan 6th 2009 3:44PM

God I hope this really will be awesome, countless times have I been reading Wolverine or X-men or X-force or anything wolverine is in and I think "I want to stab things, but a game would probably suffice"

AoE @ Jan 6th 2009 4:28PM

Seems like you don't even need a game... er, assuming you don't go out and regularly stab things now.

WiNG LifeInAGame.com @ Jan 6th 2009 3:52PM

Before anyone gets their hopes up, they should be reminded this is a movie tie-in game and therefore has a forecast with light snow showers and a 90% chance of FAIL.

Jtenma @ Jan 6th 2009 4:08PM

That was funny, so I lol'd.

Mr Khan @ Jan 6th 2009 4:09PM

this.

No matter how ambitious your project, a tie-in has to, well, tie-in, and thus puts undue pressures on developers to fit the game in a narrow release window, and the licensing process requires certain similarities that limit creative possibilities, etc, etc.

ryan @ Jan 6th 2009 4:13PM

Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay...and that's it.

WiNG LifeInAGame.com @ Jan 6th 2009 4:17PM

Except there was no "Butcher Bay" movie so it's more of a spin-off than a direct tie-in.

NoughtSoClever @ Jan 6th 2009 4:19PM

maybe we'll get lucky and they won't release it until it is finished...probably not, but maybe.

Mr Khan @ Jan 6th 2009 4:26PM

Exactly. There have been great licensed games, but they were the licensed games that weren't tie-ins

j.howlett @ Jan 6th 2009 4:08PM

just let him be the best at what he does

OTAM @ Jan 6th 2009 4:22PM

I'm so sick of Wolverine constantly being shoved down my throat. For christ sake,isn't Cyclops the leader of the X-Men to begin with?

Put some of the other X-Men at the forefront,Wolverine is over used.

j.howlett @ Jan 6th 2009 4:33PM

cyclops is the leader of on squad, storm the leader of another but that's classic x-men.

WiNG LifeInAGame.com @ Jan 6th 2009 4:36PM

Nobody wants to play as Cyclops.

Imagine this:

1. First person shooter with only one weapon.
2. Your entire field of vision is red all the time.
3. You're also kind of a bitch.

See?!?!

Haggard @ Jan 6th 2009 4:44PM

*insert "What, a bit like ?" joke here*

Zertoss @ Jan 6th 2009 5:51PM

Where's my Deadpool game?

Alien Lord @ Jan 6th 2009 5:57PM

Cyclops isn't Canadian.

OTAM @ Jan 6th 2009 6:46PM

@Wing,

I didn't mean a Cyclops game,i'm just pointing out that Wolverine is constantly at the forefront down our throats and he's not even the leader. Why not make a game with someone like Night Crawler or even Gambit. We've already had a Wolverine game and i'm sick of seeing him nonstop.

BadassSailor @ Jan 7th 2009 4:48AM

Because Gambit, nightcrawler, Cyclops, Etc, besides being garbage, never had their own comic.

Wolverine was not a member of the Xmen to begin with, he was a popular character from the Hulk before he ever became a member of the Xmen, and thus has a following larger than any of the others especaially since he had to ba added to the orignal book to keep it from failing because the original bunch (including lame ass whiney cyclops) weren't popular enough.

aristokrat @ Jan 7th 2009 3:30PM

Gambit had 2 of his own mini-series and was leader of the X-Ternals in place of the X-Force for a while. Additionally, while Nightcrawler never had his own series, Marvel themselves rated him as the #4 X-Man of all time. I love Wolverine as much as anybody (even owning issue #1 and #85 with the upside-down hologram - how's that for some geek cred), but to say that either of those other 2 wouldn't be sweet in games is a lie. They could even be cooler because they haven't been so fleshed out that you wouldn't be able to do some cool innovation or come up with some neat storylines. Wolverine has been so covered that there is hardly a second of his life that isn't accounted for (or going to be accounted for).

gameru_cold @ Feb 23rd 2009 4:21AM

That's Right! WHY THE F**K DOES WOLVERINE GET THIS HUGE ATTENTION!?!?! 3 Movies Worth C**p, Dumbass Directors, Not The Wright Actors To Play The X-Men Characters. WTF IS GOING ON HERE?!?! I Wish Marvel Made Themselves The X-Men Movies. They Would Have Done An Extraordinary Job!! I hope that X-Men First Class and the future X-Men movies will do The characters justice. Especially Cyclops who is my favorite and the Coolest X-Man.

gameru_cold @ Feb 23rd 2009 4:34AM

I'm not saying that Marsden is a bad actor i'm saying he isn't the right person to play Cyclops. I mean come on he had to wear shoes that made him taller, because Jackman was taller. AND BTW CYCLOPS IS 6 FOOT 3, 195 LBS. AnD WOLVERINE IS 5 FOOT 3, 195 LBS. ( 300 LBS. with his adamantium skeleton). For God's Sake How Hard Is It To Find Some Guys Who LOOK Like Them !!!! And BTW Sabretooth Should Have Been Way Taller Than Jackman. How The F**K Picks These Actors Man ?!?!?

kbomb1upc @ Jan 6th 2009 4:53PM

Is it me or does his claws look abnormally long? Maybe he's overcompensating for something, huh, huh... uh whatever....

TwEE @ Jan 6th 2009 5:05PM

I like how they're using the Hugh jackman Hollywood wolverine.. those 15 scenes in the movies where he sobs hysterically just solidified this version as the true wolverine for me..

I feel embarrassed knowing at one point I thought of wolverine as a short, stocky, rage filled, ball of hair and claws instead of a tall, well built, even tempered, sensitive modern gentleman.

AoE @ Jan 6th 2009 6:23PM

They're probably going with Hugh Jackman as this is a tie-in with the movie franchise (and the upcoming movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine).... that's just a guess though.

It would be nice to see a comic-inspired game instead, but then again those x-men platformers back in the 16-bit day were pretty crappy...