NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 07/26/2013 The Wii version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine is the only game based on the film to exist on another platform, as you can also purchase this game on the PlayStation 2. Right from the start the primary problem with this version is the Wii controller itself and I would…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 07/25/2013 To but it bluntly, X-Men Origins: Wolverine on the PSP is not very good, but I do have to give credit to both developer Griptonite and publisher Activision. In Griptonite’s case, they developed not one, but two different versions of this IP and hammered out two completely different experiences.…
NOTE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM Prior to their acquisition by Glu Mobile, developer Griptonite Games seemed to be the go to company for hand held iterations of super hero games. The company worked on games starring Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man, Green Lantern and two different versions of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. While some of their…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 07/25/2013 If the Game Boy Advance version of X2: Wolverine’s Revenge didn’t have the aesthetics from comics that were published around the year 2000, it would be easy to mistake it for a long lost game from the SNES and Genesis era. Simply put, this game was quite a surprise…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 07/24/2013 X2: Wolverine’s Revenge is a game that is very deceptive in it’s marketing. It was released close the the release of X2: X-Men United in theaters, features the “X2” logo, Hugh Jackman’s likeness on the cover art, as well as Patrick Stewart as the voice of Professor X. In…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 07/24/2013 Around the time the X-Men film came out in 2000, publisher Activision became the holder of the X-Men video game license and in 2001 they would publish their first Wolverine game for the then soon to be on the way out Game Boy Color platform. Lady Deathstrike has developed…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 07/24/2013 Ah LJN, the company who would purchase any license they could get their mitts on to turn a quick buck. Wolverine on the NES would be the companies second X-Men game on the system (the first being the atrocious Uncanny X-Men) but the first solo Wolverine outing. Also unlike…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 07/03/2013 Several years ago there was a game released called Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. It was a game about a video game hero who was aware that he was a character from a game and poked fun at he medium and its conventions. Eat Lead was a…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 05/13/2013 Gameloft, the company behind Iron Man 3, is no stranger to mobile based film tie-ins having crafted games based on last summer’s The Dark Knight Rises and The Amazing Spider-Man. Whereas those games tried to be more traditional games emulated on a mobile platform, Iron Man 3 works the…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 05/13/2013 I am by no means a professional reviewer, it is merely something I do in my own free time. One principle I’ve always tried to uphold when reviewing something is that I try to see it to the end. In the case of video games, story or mechanic problems…
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