My first thought when I saw Insomniac’s Wolverine game re🐷vealed at this week’s PlayStation Showcase was “ohmyfuckinggodtheymadeawolverinegamewhattheshit!”, but my second was “huh, I wonder if 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:X-Men Origins: Wolverine is on Game Pass.&rdqu꧙o; Unfortunately it’s not, so you’ll have to shell out dozens of pennies for an Xbox 360 or PS3 copy to experience it, but I promise you, it’s worth it. 𝓡If you’re even the tiniest bit excited for Wolverine, go back and play Origins.
I know what you’re thinking. Origins was a pret🥃ty average movie, and at the time easily the worst X-Men film. Remember Deadpool with no mouth, and blades in his arms that were so long they should have jutted out of his elbow? Remember will.i.am? Yeesh.
Liev Schreiber was a great addition to the X-Men canon, and the opening montage of Wolverine fighting in e𝓡very major American war was far cooler than literally anything the X-Men movies ever did from that point on, but I get it. Origins: Wolverine wasn’t great. Plus, tie-in games as a whole tend to be bad. I played enough of them myself, and I know. But please trust me when I say X-Men Origins: Wolverine was ༒the exception to the rule.
It follows the path of a typical movie tie-in, which is to say it’s a vague retelling in terms of key narrative sequences, but the story of each scene is a very loose interpretation of how it went down in the film, and the plot itself differs quite a bit. It also begins with Wolverine’s mission in the jungle after all the interesting war stuff I mentioned earlier. While the plot is related to Origins' themes, most of the Wolverine film is spent on his life as Logan, with Kayla Silverfox by his side. The game instead focuses on the action, spending longer in the bloody explosions of battles and less time on nonsense like character development and narrative heart.
As a result, it diverges slightly from the events of the movie in order to set up more action sequences and boss encounters. Therefore, people who perhaps care slightly too much about Fox’s X-Men saga that long overstayed its welcome regard the game as non-canon. If that’s a deal breaker, let me pull you right back in - yo𒁏u can jump on helicopters, pull the pilot out, and hold them up to the propellers to decapitate them. Do they deserve it? Absolutely no idea. Looks cool though.
I expect Insomniac’s take on the character to be grittier and raw, something with the soul and depth equal to Miles Morales. I think Logan will be the closest comparison in the movie canon to the game, or possibly Wolverine&rsqu▨o;s underrated arc in X-2. I am not writing in favour of Insomniac remaking, building upon, or paying any attention to X-Men Origins: Wolverine. This isn’t about Insomniac, baby. It’s about me and you. It’s always bee💦n about me and you. Everything I do I do for you. And all I’m asking is for you to do one simple thing - please play X-Men Origins: Wolverine so I have someone to talk to about it.
You might be thinking “the helicopter thing is cool, but I just can’t imagine this story without will.i.am…” Great news! He’s back, along with other cast members including Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber. Ryan Reynolds and Taylor Kitsch are out, with Steve Blum in as Deadpool an🤡d Chris Edgerly as Gambit, but if Taylor Kitsch was the make or break point for you I think you&ಌrsquo;re just looking for reasons not to play this masterpiece.
I'm not usually into violent video games. After Wolverine and Spidey, Tchia was probably my game of the show - and since we didn't see any actual gameplay of the first two, I can't in good conscience put them above Tchia anyway. It's not just that Wolverine was violent and therefore was good, but that it leaned into how violent Wolverine could be in a way the movies often teased you with but leaned out of at the last minute. Wolverine got into bar fights and smashed skulls into posts. He threw people through windows. He - and it bears repeating - decapitated people with their own helicopters. It was a fairly brainless hack and slash game at times, wandering through enemy filled arenas and tearing them to shreds, but it depicted the character in ways that few games had before.
It even came in an Uncaged Edition, which was even more violenter and even had some swears in it. How naughty. This version was not available on the Wii, which I find endearingly charming. It gets fairly repetitive by the end, but with Berserker Mode, you don't really care. Insomniac's game is obviously going to be a helluva lot better, but X-Men: Origins Wolverine is 🍸still worth remembering all these years later.