X-Men Origins: Wolverine – Game Review

X-Men Origins: Wolverine is an action game primarily developed by Raven Software. Amaze Entertainment and Griptonite Games also contributed to the development of the game for some platforms. The game was developed based on the storyline of the movie. It is a third-person perspective game. The game was published by Activision in May 2009.

You have to play as Wolverine in this game. Follow the command you get from your commander, find and kill your enemy, and meet the new people. You can increase your ability with the experience point (XP). By killing your enemy, and destroying the materials you can get XP. It will help you upgrade your level (level up). And in each level, you will get a skill point to upgrade your skills. Wolverine has some special ability like Feral Sense to identify the hidden foes and destroy them. He also has his healing ability in this game. Combat will increase the rage of Wolverine and it will help him in devastating attacks like claw spin. The combat style and graphics are different in the PS2 and Wii versions.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Cover 

Gameplay of Wolverine:

The game begins with the prologue showing Wolverine fighting a group of soldiers sent to capture him. While fighting the soldiers he began thinking about his experience in Angola, Africa. He teamed up with his brother Victor, Wade Wilson, John Wraith, and Nord, led by Colonel Stryker. This is the final mission of Team X, and the objective is to locate a village that holds the secret to a valuable mineral deposit. Team X locates the village but the villagers refuse to cooperate and Stryker threatens their lives. Logan turns on his teammates but he is subdued and knocked out before he can prevent the massacre of the villagers.

Three years later, Team X almost disbanded. Logan had moved to Canada with his girlfriend. Creed locates Logan in Canada and defeats him in a fight, breaking Logan's bone claws and knocking him out. Logan wakes up and finds Kayla dead.

Stryker offers Logan help the revenge for Kayla's death through a procedure. Logan agrees, but at the end of the procedure, he hears Stryker ordering his dismissal. He escaped the Alkali Lake facility, killing many of Stryker's men.

Searching for Wraith, Logan travels to Project: Wideawake, a secret government facility that produces mutant-hunting Sentinel robots. There, he meets Raven, who is also searching for the Wraith and reveals herself to be a mutant shape-shifter. She leads Logan around the facility. Logan rescues Wraith and destroys a large Sentinel prototype.

Wraith leads Logan to Fred Dukes, a former team member. Fred Dukes tells him about a prison known as "The Island", where the mutants are kept captive. He also mentions the name “Remy Lebeau” the only mutant who escaped "The Island".

Playlist of Gameplay Video of X-Men Origins: Wolverine Game

Logan reaches Remy, but he escapes believing that he is one of Stryker's agents. Remy changes his mind after defeating Logan and takes him to Stryker's island.

Logan confronts Stryker and is surprised to see Kayla alive. He discovers that she used her persuasion ability to seduce Logan. She faked her death to lead Logan into volunteering for Weapon X. Stryker planned to create the ultimate mutant-killing supersoldier "Weapon XI" combining multiple mutant DNAs.

Logan agrees to cooperate but changes his decision as Kayla is taken hostage. Logan defeats Victor but spares him at Kayla's pleadings. Kayla leaves to save her captive sister.

Weapon XI then confronts Logan, but Logan manages to kill him. Logan then finds Kayla injured and near death; Stryker takes the opportunity and shoots him in the head. Kayla persuades Stryker to walk until his feet bleed and drowns herself in a lake after saying a tearful goodbye to the unconscious Logan. Logan wakes up alone and aimless, recovering from the gunshot.

The epilogue takes place around the same time as Prologue. We find Logan is being captive, and he frees himself from his chains and escapes. Logan sees an army of Sentinels patrolling the ruined city. He says, "The world may be broken, but I have the tools to fix it."

Minimum System Requirements:

Use Windows XP operating system with an Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz processor. Include a 256 MB Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT graphics card and a 1 GB RAM. Also, keep 8 GB of space in the HDD.

***For better performance play with Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 1.86 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5200+; use GeForce 8800 GS or Radeon HD 3850.

Prize Box of Wolverine:

X-Men Origins: Wolverine won the IGN Summer Movie Awards in 2009 for Best Videogame Adaptation. Hugh Jackman won the Spike Video Game Awards in 2009 in the “Best Performance By A Human Male” category for the game. In 2010 Marc Guggenheim was nominated in the Writers Guild of America, USA award in the Videogame Writing category for the game.

Source:

• Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, (2018) X-Men Origins: Wolverine (video game). [Online] Available From: Wikipedia.org [Accessed: April 23, 2018] 
• Can You RUN it, (2018) X-Men Origins: Wolverine System Requirements. [Online] Available From: SystemRequirementsLab.com [Accessed: April 23, 2018] 
• IMDb, (2023) X-Men Origins: Wolverine Awards. [Online] Available From: IMDb.com [Accessed: October 10, 2023]

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