I must say this game is really quite good. When I got it a year ago I enjoyed almost every moment of it. It was nice to see a movie game not afraid of the gore for once, that was actually good.

Why not 5 stars then? Well despite how fun it is, the lack of final polish is evident, especially in the graphics department. Furthermore I found that playing this game for a second playthrough (to get trophies) was much less enjoyable. This is probably because the game is linear, but more to do with the fact that the combat can get repetitive eventually.

Regardless, its great fun, and the fact that the game is actually relatively long partially makes up for its lack of replayability. Better than Dante's inferno, which I played round a mates house recently. Of course it cant compete with God of War 3 in my opinion, but I found the killing itself to be more satisfying. I almost think that some of God of war's violence is a bit silly and over the top.

Anyway I definately… more »

I must say this game is really quite good. When I got it a year ago I enjoyed almost every moment of it. It was nice to see a movie game not afraid of the gore for once, that was actually good.

Why not 5 stars then? Well despite how fun it is, the lack of final polish is evident, especially in the graphics department. Furthermore I found that playing this game for a second playthrough (to get trophies) was much less enjoyable. This is probably because the game is linear, but more to do with the fact that the combat can get repetitive eventually.

Regardless, its great fun, and the fact that the game is actually relatively long partially makes up for its lack of replayability. Better than Dante's inferno, which I played round a mates house recently. Of course it cant compete with God of War 3 in my opinion, but I found the killing itself to be more satisfying. I almost think that some of God of war's violence is a bit silly and over the top.

Anyway I definately reccomend this game to anyway who likes blood, guts and pure action violence!

We all know that movies that turn in to games are never good, there has only once been an exception to this rule (Goldeneye) but I'm happy to report that finally, a new tie in has been paid the attention is deserves. Wolverine is finally on my PS3 in the way that fans intended it to be!
The storyline is no surprise, it's the movie, nuff said.
What's so great about this is that there's not been any compromise in Wolverine's character, style or brutality. It's great, simply great being able to actually tear people apart with his claws, I will never tire of this. The ragdoll mechanics work pretty well and when you pull off a brutal kill (when an enemy has less than 10% hp) and the action slows down so you can see the trail of blood floating in mid-air from the fresh corpse to Wolverine's claws, you'll be amazed at how cool it looks and how cool you feel! There's no shortage of baddies in this game, a lot of the time, you'll find yourself totally surrounded and going mental to… more »

We all know that movies that turn in to games are never good, there has only once been an exception to this rule (Goldeneye) but I'm happy to report that finally, a new tie in has been paid the attention is deserves. Wolverine is finally on my PS3 in the way that fans intended it to be!
The storyline is no surprise, it's the movie, nuff said.
What's so great about this is that there's not been any compromise in Wolverine's character, style or brutality. It's great, simply great being able to actually tear people apart with his claws, I will never tire of this. The ragdoll mechanics work pretty well and when you pull off a brutal kill (when an enemy has less than 10% hp) and the action slows down so you can see the trail of blood floating in mid-air from the fresh corpse to Wolverine's claws, you'll be amazed at how cool it looks and how cool you feel! There's no shortage of baddies in this game, a lot of the time, you'll find yourself totally surrounded and going mental to keep them down. There's a huge array of moves to be used from your standard combos to special spinny manouvres to lunging at people from a distance, the action never gets tiring or samey. It also means you can pull off a fairly structured strategy as to you attacks as opposed to button mashing all the time.
The only gripe you could have here is that a lot of the bogger enemies use the same attack strategy, forcing you to have the same kill strategy. Basically, roll out of the way to get behind them, jump on its back and hack away. It's the only thing I could really pick fault with but not anywhere near a big enough issue to put anyone off.
The graphics are pretty good. There are odd moments where you'll kinda wince and think 'well, that could've been better polished' but there's not that many of them. On the whole, the graphics are great, Wolverine looks like Jackman and that's the goal so job done there. The environments are pretty good, not a huge variation but the game is very much focused on action so you're not playing this to look at pretty pictures. One of the best things is watching him regenerate. The amount of times I've blown up a barrel just to see his skin fly off and grow back is a bit ridiculous.
All the usual upgrade paths are there, gain experience and spend it, you can tweak quite a lot from piling strength into special attacks to just upgrading your health limit, it's all there as you'd expect.
No reasons not to get this game, the only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because of the occasional framerate drops and the sometimes slightly sketchy graphics, nothing that would make me regret it, ace game, get it!