X2 Wolverine's Revenge

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• ASIN: B00008DHLD
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches ; 0.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 8, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,019 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

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While comics are having a bit of renaissance in films lately, with several decent versions of four-color heroes making it to the big screen, still the only half-decent superhero game is Spider-Man. Wolverine’s Revenge should change all that, with what promises to be a genuinely worthwhile game in its own right. Tying in only loosely to the X-Men 2 movie, this is basically a Wolverine simulator, which traces his life from his first appearance as Weapon X in 1968 to a series of deadly battles in the modern day against the likes of Lady Deathstrike and Sabretooth.

As you’d expect, the emphasis of the action in the game is on 3-D combat and this works extremely well, with various combos to unlock and the ability to fight multiple bad guys at once. More interesting, though, is the way you can use Wolvie’s animal senses to follow scent particles in the air, hear distant sounds, and track an enemy’s heat signature. This aspect of the game works incredibly well and allows you to play the game as either an all-out actioner or a more tactical, stealth-based affair.

It’s unusual to see a comic character portrayed so accurately in a game, with all their powers intact, but Wolverine’s Revenge really pulls it off and combines it with some great gameplay and cool graphics. --David Jenkins, Amazon.co.uk

Product Description

In 1968, the mutant known simply as Logan was surgically implanted with the virtually unbreakable adamantium skeleton that made him into Wolverine, one of the world's most famous X-Men. Now, more than 30 years later, Wolverine has discovered that he was also implanted with something else: a viral time-bomb that will render him lifeless in 48 hours. The clock is ticking. The antidote needs to be found quickly. And only you can find it.

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18 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The game is Hot!, April 21, 2003

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cykill (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: X2 Wolverine's Revenge (Video Game)

This game is hot as hell. The graphics are really tight,The controls are just the same.I've followed Wolverine's storyline for 13 years, and this storyline is brilliant, and accurate to the comic book series, thanks of course to Larry Hama, who contributed to the game and has been a Wolverine writer for years. The excitement is intense and will keep you addicted for hours at a time. You use stealth and jump out of the shadows at enemies and gut them with your claws. You can use over a dozen spectacular looking combos to finish off a few enemies at a time, each combo more brilliant looking than the last one. On one of them, you can throw two enemies up in the air and impale them on yourclaw like a shikobob. The battles with the big bosses are simply awesome. You get to throw down with Sabretooth (twice), The Juggernaut, Wendigo (one of the coolest battles), Lady Deathstrike, and Magneto. Mark Hamill does his coolest performance since Star Wars as the voice of Logan, and Patrick Stewart is sharp as ever as Professor X. It's his trademark character, he probably thinks he is Professor X. This is Tenchu - Wrath of heaven, Syphon Filter, and Metal gear solid 2 stirred into one game and I can honestly say that I think it will be the biggest game of the year, a good rival to Grand theft auto Vice city. I hope that this isn't the last Wolverine solo adventure game, He is the coolest superhero ever, even cooler than Spiderman, Superman, Batman and The Hulk. Anybody who gets into this will definitely be addicted to it, take my word for it. I have plenty more great things to say but then this review would be too long for anyone to read through. Wolverine rules!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A descent game., April 23, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: X2 Wolverine's Revenge (Video Game)

I don't understand all the negative reviews of this game in magazines and internet articles. I find the game to have an interesting story, while not babbling on for hours (ie you get to play more than watch, unlike Metal Gear Solid 2). The voice acting is really good for Wolverine and Professor X, with some of the characters who only have a couple lines being so-so at times.

I enjoy the fighting system. The combos look cool, which is their purpose. Boss fights are probably the worst part of this game though. All the bosses I can think of have something special you have to do to be able to trigger a combo on them, and several of them you don't think of -- you just kind of stumble onto them. Also, near the end of the game it gets REALLY hard.

The camera does suck, just like it does in any 3rd person game where the camera isn't attached to the ceiling or to some rail. But it's no worse than any other game I've played which uses the same type of camera.

The game looks a little lighter on the graphics for the most part than other current PS2 games: the polygon counts are lower and the little touches aren't there. But the game's "Instinct" mode looks really cool: being able to see foot-prints and the smells of the enemies comes off really well. The animations in the games are really good though. They have a convincing weight to them and they always seem to blend into each other perfectly.

The game, like the spiderman games, has lots of unlockables. The most entertaining of which (for me) was the costumes, which seemed to be pretty easy to obtain, unlike some of the spiderman games.

In short, I found this game to be really fun, occasionally frustrating (boss fights), and looking good enough to great depending on what element you're looking at. And the sounds is good, although the music gets repeditive sometimes.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Loads of promise but doesn't deliver, May 5, 2003

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N. Durham "Big Evil" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: X2 Wolverine's Revenge (Video Game)

When you first pop in and play X2: Wolverine's Revenge, you might think that this game would be much, much better than it is were it not for the fact that it was on a tight schedule to be released alongside the new X-Men film, and you might be right. Wolverine's Revenge has a lot going for it, including a taut storyline courtesy of long time Wolverine scribe Larry Hama, nice graphics and cut scenes, a nice array of bosses (including Magneto, Sabretooth, Juggernaut, Wendigo, and Lady Deathstrike) and acceptable voice acting from Mark Hamil as Wolvie (sorry folks, no Hugh Jackman here) and Patrick Stewart reprising his film role as Professor X. All those good qualities aside though, there are quite a few cons as well. The controls are clunky, the camera is frustrating, and Wolverine's jobs mainly consist of slicing up a few generic thugs, finding keys, opening doors, and fighting the bosses. If the game would have had a bit more time and though put into it, this would be the best X-Men game on a next generation system to date. However, Wolverine's Revenge isn't all bad, and it is definitely worth playing if your a fan of the comic or just anything X-Men.

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