Video Game Review- X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Ok, first off, i have to say that I'm a HUGE X-men fan, i love the comics and i was geeking out the ENTIRE movie because i saw SOOOOOOOO many mistakes in it (cyclops has force beams, not lasers, so he can't burst things on fire, Gambit can't control cards like that, all he does is make the atoms in an object move REALLY fast to the point of explosion, and the Blob...seriously? An eating disorder?!?!?) But anyways, back to the review.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine - The Video Game

Wolverine starts out in a MAJOR surprise, you start off with a simple difficulty menu and little cutscene, but as soon as you really start the game you start out with a hundred foot drop right into the middle of a warzone with nothing but bone claws!!! Tearing, hacking and decapitating anything and everything moving you're given abilities of super jumping with an aiming target you can find on WANTED, enough blood to put Madworld to shame (which is actually REALLY hard to do) and enough rage to make Kratos from God of War seem docile and innocent. It's a great game...at first...

I learned throughout the game that as you take more and more damage, you heal just as fast as you take it, which, sad to say, gets pretty dull after a while, but the graphics of his bones and muscles under his injuries look great, they too get old and just seem like big red blotches as he usually heals from everything after a few seconds....except in water...that's right, you can take bullets, lasers, punches, grenades and exploding cards...but you can't swim...

As you're faced with enemies, some you don't even realize WHY you're fighting, the Major Jump comes in handy, but like the healing, makes you feel like you have WAY too much of an advantage, to the point where you wanna walk rather than leap.

The bad guys seem like those in the movies, but somehow different, you wind up killing literally hundreds of enemies, yet using the same moves over and over again, i'm reminded of Madworld all over again. But the cutscenes are unbelievable and the details in which they put your character in is remarkable as a lot of the actions are put into slow motion for you as you see the blood flying EVERYWHERE. But as you move around you can't help but swear at the game as the camera keeps moving to where you don't want it to, being a VERY loose way of seeing and moving around.

I give this 5 chapter, 9 1/2 hour game a B+. Not exactly as great as i expected, but a lot better than a lot of movie based games i've played in a long time.