Review Update: X-Men Origins: Wolverine

I wrote briefly the other day about the new X-Box 360 game, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and noted that I was only about halfway through the game or so, so now that I've played a considerable amount more, I wanted to take another quick minute to tell you how you must try this game.

Spoilers ahead...

You battle a fucking SENTINEL man! A full size Sentinel. On a roof, and once you've damaged his feet to where he can't stand up, he does what any Sentinel would do, and takes off in to the sky... with you hanging on for dear life. Once you hit an extreme altitude he swats you off of him, and you begin to sky dive (sans parachute, natch) and you have to duck debris falling away from him, until you land on him and rip off another piece. Repeat process a couple times, and you get an awesome cut scene, in which the Sentinel hits the ground, and then to disable it for good, Wolverine turns himself in to a skydiving bullet and shoots right through it's head.

Not even a couple quick scenes later, and you're fighting The Blob in a grocery store. Now this fight... it's awesome. Blob will try to splash down on to you, and when he does you have to evade and then hop on his back, and then ride him around the grocery store crashing through EVERYTHING. When all was said and done, we were in a huge empty room. It was awesome.

Oh, I wanted to mention the costumes. Throughout the game you'll find Wolverine action figures. Get 3 of each and you unlock the chance to get various costumes. To get the costumes you have to battle different versions of Wolverine in a sort of simulation chamber, and once defeated you unlock the costume he was wearing. I'm currently playing the game with him wearing the classic Yellow & Blue attire and it's bad to the bone. I also unlocked the Legendary Red & Yellow attire.

So, long story short, I still haven't beaten the game. I'm currently battling Gambit throughout a Vegas casino, and it's just as awesome as the rest of the game. I didn't even want to wait til I finished it to write a follow up, just to let you know that I am officially changing my rating to an 8.5 out of 10. This game is WIN. If you liked Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, then you will like this game. SWTFU is one of my favorite games on 360, so it's no shock I love this one too. Check it out!

Movie & Video Game Review: Wolverine

I'm not gonna write a long soliloquy about either topic, but I did want to share a few words on Wolverine, both the movie and new video game. I'll start with the movie. Spoilers await.

I have to say up front that I was a bit disappointed with the movie as a whole. It was good for what it was, which is a Marvel superhero movie. A buddy of mine said it was better than The Incredible Hulk but worse than Iron Man, and I have to agree with him completely. Hugh Jackman is awesome as Wolverine, and Liev Shreiber was great as Sabertooth (though I don't remember him ever being called Sabertooth in the movie). So I give those two guys credit.... but the story of this movie, loosely based off the Wolverine Origins comic series, was just really weak for me. I was really the most disappointed with the fact that Ryan Reynolds is really only in this movie for like 10 minutes, and then 10 minutes he's in it are awesome. Need more Ryan Reynolds! The graphics are horrendous, there's one part where Logan is checking out his new metal claws in a mirror and they look almost like a cartoon. It's pretty bad. The story again, kinda weak. I'm pretty sure I don't remember there ever being a story about Wolverine and Sabertooth being brothers. I didn't like that... I thought it took away from the movie, because I would think that Wolverine ultimately wouldn't want to kill his brother, but would want to save him, but instead it's the whole movie with him trying to find him and kill him. Taylor Kitsch as Gambit was awesome though. In fact, I'll go as far as saying Gambit is the best part of the whole damn movie. Eh... I dunno, maybe I'm Dark Knight spoiled. I just think this movie could have
been a lot better. 6.5 out of 10.

The game, on the other hand, is absolutely awesome.
It's kinda loosely following the plot of the movie, I'm only a couple hours in, so I don't know much it goes through. But from what I've played, it's pure awesomeness. You just slash and shred and rip through everything in sight. You can rip dudes in half, decapitate em, cut off their legs and arms, all the while blood is spraying through the air around you. There's little easter eggs or something hidden in it. I found the hatch door from LOST in the first level... that made me laugh. Hugh Jackman did the CG and voice work for it, so it has a very authentic feel. The graphics are pretty decent and the cut scenes are quick and spread out just enough. It's not a cake walk either, it's pretty challenging, but it's a lot of fun at the same time. I'd recommend it to anyone looking to just tear shit up for a few hours. Give the game 7.5 out of 10.

Things Back To Normal Tomorrow

Good news. My maternity leave ends tomorrow, which means news will begin to trickle back to your eyes on this site tomorrow. Till then, I leave you with this.

X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE HD

Trailer: X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Leaked from Comic Con 2008!

Watch while you can, and try not to bust a nut all over your keyboard. Obviously it was leaked from Comic Con, so don't expect it to look that great. But you can see it enough to get the idea.



UPDATE replaced old yanked video with new one.

Wolverine Movie to Debut in May, 2009.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine, starring Hugh Jackman (and possibly Liev Schreiber as a younger version of Brian Cox's William Stryker), will hit theaters May 1, 2009.

This is very exciting to those of us who are fans of the X-Men franchise, and especially to the fans of Wolverine. The only issue I have is with the terrible title. I think it does them less good to have the whole X-Men Origins deal in there, because when I read that it leads me to believe there's going to be a series of Origin movies. If that's the case, then by all means please continue on with the series, and give us a great Kelsey Grammar as Beast romp.................... oooh what fun that would be. ;-/