Thus the "Uncaged Edition" of X-Men Origins: Wolverine for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC featured lashings of blood, guts and the rather grisly sight of his mutant healing power functioning in real time. The late 2000s was a time when the success of God of War had turned savagery into the status quo, preparing the ground for a Wolverine game that could lean into the character's more animalistic side. (This was just before the release of Raven's Call of Duty: Black Ops, which saw the studio become enmeshed in the demanding, rotational grind of Activision's CoD war machine.) ("I was just starting to have fun," he growls at one point, after eviscerating several unfortunate henchman.) But there was a distinct sense that developers Raven Software - steeped in comics lore while creating the X-Men: Legends and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance action-RPG franchises in the 2000s - wanted to strike out on their own.
X MEN ORIGINS WOLVERINE MOVIE
That was the 2009 movie tie-in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which was official enough that it featured Hugh Jackman's ripped likeness and gravelly voice honed by almost a decade in the role. But maybe reexamining the last proper high-profile Wolverine game could throw up some useful pointers. While hardly all-time classics, some had their enjoyable quirks (it's worth seeking out the raucous SNES soundtrack to 1994's Wolverine: Adamantium Rage, which sounds like the dawn of drill.) It is unlikely that Insomniac - a studio that could reasonably claim to be the best there is at what they do, which is making triple-A games about Marvel superheroes - will be poring over Logan's back catalogue of Game Boy Colour titles in search of inspiration.
(Or to put it another way: when it came to gaming, Logan had a pretty good run.)Īs well as rounding out the mutant cast of dozens of X-Men games, Wolverine's wild popularity as a solo comic character meant he also headlined his own titles.
X MEN ORIGINS WOLVERINE SKIN
This unexpected comeback for the hirsute, hair-trigger mutant - in a proper PlayStation 5 game, not just as a Fortnite skin - harks back to the period where Wolverine was a permanent fixture. A new Wolverine game? From Insomniac, careful and conscientious crafters of recent PlayStation blockbusters Spider-Man and Miles Morales? Sign me up, bub, even after that briefest of cinematic trailers where all you really see of Marvel's prickly brawler is a scruffy lumberjack shirt, a battered cowboy hat and the familiar "snikt" of adamantium blades popping out of bloodied knuckles.