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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Topic Started: Dec 12 2008, 08:25 AM (1,122 Views)
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I knew it sounded fishy when ninety percent of the petulant cries of it being terrible mentioned only Deadpool.
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I almost forgot.In Deadpools rather brief appearance in the movie before disappearing and then coming back retarded, he had the most awesome line.

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The delivery of this line was classic Deadpool.
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To answer your question Deadpool has survived such attacks, but only if he got the aforementioned sliced off body part reatched intime. Usually he needed the help of his friends to do that.

Also, I've found the Deadpool ending. All I can say is he's not mute anymore, he delivered a sssh to the camera before it ended. Thats really all I can tell you.

Speaking of Deadpool, I'm a little annoyed at my fellow Deadpool fans at Deadpool Bugle, they keep saying Wade lost his recent battle with the Thunderbolts. I may be old fashioned, but since when did seducing one of Normie's employees into saving the life of a mortal enemy and stealing a man's bank card to pay yourself off for your own mission count as failure? Thunderbolts winning would be Deadpool remaining dead! He beat them, end of story, Deadpool made chumps out of Osborn's little hit squad, case closed.

I think they're all just angry that Deadpool has so many appearances in comics and while they have been selling out they haven't all been living up to their expectations. Mine, sure, theirs not so much. I don't see their issue really. For once, Deadpool is a big player in the Marvel universe and he's got tons of books coming out, not to mention two ongoing series which will be running side by side soon. Can't we all just enjoy it?

Finally, I'm going to be picking up Messiah War when it comes out in TPB form. Wade has apparently been kicking serious ass in the mini-event.
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Ok, so my parents just got back from the movie, and Apparently I missed the REAL hidden ending. They describe the same thing LM did.

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On a side note, Here's Tim Buckly on th Game.


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So after working over at the house this morning, I came home and diligently played a couple stages of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, so that I could tell you guys what I thought of it. Of course, you can form your own opinion, there's a demo up on XBL. You'll likely come to the same conclusion I have, though.

This game is fun.

To be clear, Wolverine is a hack n' slash action title, and not a whole lot more. The plot is pretty straightforward (moreso than the film, from what I hear), and you play Wolverine in his pre-adamantium days, through his berserk escape from the Weapon X facility, and beyond. You're not going to solve any elaborate puzzles, you're not going to be offered dialogue options. You are going to do a lot of talking with your very, very sharp claws. And that's about the gist of it. If shredding and mutilating hundreds of enemies with brutal, satisfying combar, for hours and hours doesn't appeal to you, this may not be your game. In fact, if that's the case, you probably don't even like Wolverine. Or fun.

You get two basic attacks (light and heavy), a jump, a block, and a grapple. With these simple tools, Raven has managed to create a combat game with a huge variety of vicious moves. Enough moves and combos that it's all the game really is, and it still remains enjoyable for hours on end. I just haven't gotten sick of watching Wolverine tear through hordes of soldiers

There's also a Lunge move which, if you were to imagine the game without it, almost single-handedly differentiates the title between "good" and "great". With the Lunge, Wolverine can cross large areas very quickly, getting right into combat. And the attack at the end of the lunge can be varied using the other attack buttons for some brutal combos.

And man, this game is brutal. Wolverine will shred limbs, impale people on spikes, decapitate soldiers, even tear them in half at the midsection. You get some cinematic flair with finishing moves, and you can even attempt a quick kill, in which Wolvie eviscerates his foe in some bloody fashion.

I don't believe that games have to be incredibly violent to be good, but when you've got an animalistic mutant with razor claws in his hands, and that can take an astonishing amount of punishment and keep on truckin', violence is just plain called for. And this game has it in all its glory.

And speaking of taking punishment, Logan's healing factor is in full effect in this game. As you take damage you will literally see chunks of flesh, and gaping holes torn in his body. And it's not just a texture effect, either. You can actually see different layers (skin, muscle, bone, organs) as the damage to a particlar area goes deeper and deeper. Wolverine has a life meter, at the end of which his vital organs are exposed. If you continue to take damage after this point, Wolverine will fail whatever task he's attempting, due to the severe damage he's taken.

If you stop taking damage for a short while, his healing factor kicks in, and you can watch his body piece itself back together. It's a pretty cool effect, and one that ends up being a perfect marriage of character and video game mechanics.

Still, it's not a perfect game. There are a few things that, while still enjoyable, are a bit repetitive the third or fourth time around. While there are a ton of different ways to kill normal bad guys, so far killing big dudes is the same trick every time. Dodge 'em, jump on their back and stabby-stabby for a bit, then jump off, rinse and repeat. It's fun, but it gets a little tedious.

In the same vein, the boss battles don't make a lot of sense in context, and there just aren't enough of them. What is there is pretty fun though.

They did add a few features which, while uncessary, do serve to add a bit of depth to the game. There are various ways in which you can customize Wolverine throughout the course of the game. As you level up you can improve your skills and health in a few ways. You can also collect mutagens throughout the game, which you can equip to augment certain facets of Wolverine's killing abilities. The game didn't really need this, but it's completely unintrusive, and a welcome little addition.

There are some collectables throughout the levels which will unlock challenges for some limited replayability, and an unlockable hard mode for a second challenging play-through.

If you like Wolverine, if you like beat-em-ups, if you like action titles, X-Men Origins: Wolverine is pretty damn solid. And fun. Don't let it's movie-licensed nature turn you away, this may be a rare case where the movie video game is actually better than the movie itself.
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Its a Wolverine pal, I've seen the game footage. Its freakin brutal. In other words awesome.

If nothing else I think the movie will give Wolverine fans what they want. Lets hope thats enough to make it an enjoyable watch.
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The developers behind X-Men Origins: Wolverine want a go at the Merc with the Mouth and that's just a fraction of what Dan Vondrak, the game's project lead, told us about his future with mutant based videogames during an interview yesterday.

When asked which character his team would love to tackle next, Vondrak replied:

"That's very easy, that'd be Deadpool. We're huge fans of Deadpool. When we made X-Men 2, we made sure to put Deadpool in there and give him plenty of little Easter eggs and conversations. We love the character. His smartass attitude. So that'd be the guy we'd probably go after."

And how does the dev feel about the Hollywood-ized Deadpool in the X-Men Origins: Wolverine film?

"What can I say, I'm a guy who likes the original stuff the most. I like my Deadpool the way he is in the comics," said Vondrak. "I wouldn't necessarily say that's exactly how he's used in the movie and eventually the game. It's a cool concept for sure. It's just maybe not the first choice I would have made."

So if he got to make a Deadpool game, we could hope for something a little more traditional? "Absolutely 100%," Vondrak said. Can you hear that? It's the sound of a million comic book fans breathing a sigh of relief.

A comic nerd in his own right, Vondrak happily answered our many fanboy questions. Like how do you kill Wolverine if you can't cut through his adamantium spine? "Drown him." What villain can we expect in a possible X-Men Origins: Wolverine sequel? "Silver Samurai." And what was the most goretastic sequence that didn't make the final cut of the Wolverine game? "One of the original ideas was Wolverine throwing himself into a 737's jet and taking it down. And that ended up being kind of what we did with the Sentinel battle."

X-Men Origins: Wolverine hits stores today. We'll have a review up soon, but until then use the comments section to tell us what you want from a Deadpool game.



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I hope they get the oppourtunity to make a Deadpool game. I think the interest is there. Deadpool certainly has a good deal of fans and gains new ones all the time.

We might just get said spinoffs. Origins has apparently done quite well for it's opening weekend, making 87 million. If it continues to do well we may be in for a Deadpool spinoff as well as a Gambit movie.
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If it makes back its budget I know we will... although I'm wondering if people will still like the movie even if it makes enough money. I mean... its not exactly faithful to a lot of characters from what I've heard and what Dl and you guys keep telling me.

I'm still not sure, on one hand Deadpool gets a spinoff, on the other hand I may not enjoy this movie... its so frustrating.
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The thing most people seem to be forgetting is thst this movie is about Wolverine. The others characters (sans Sabertooth) get maybe 10 minuets of screen-time tops. As far as Wolverine goes, it's an awesome movie, and would defiantly recommend it.

On another note, as far as I noticed, Stan Lee didn't have a cameo in this movie. He's had one in all the Marvel movies as of late, but I didn't notice him in this one. And it would have been real easy to put him in too. (SPOILER:there's sequence where Logan stays with an elderly couple on a farm)
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Well, Stan Lee not having a cameo isn't really out of place. Stan invented the X-Men, sure. But this is not a movie about the X-Men, as you pointed out, but Wolverine. Stan didn't invent Wolverine, so it's not that big a deal.

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The thing most people seem to be forgetting is thst this movie is about Wolverine.

Well, the thing about that is that I think way too many fans saw and heard guys like Deadpool and Gambit would be in and got way too excited about what would more or less be cameo's. The problem is that their appearances were more to gauge interest, not to give them a co-starring role.

Fans have a tendency to miss the big picture.
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I'm sure it will be great for Wolverine fans, but I still feel like they should get the fanservice characters right. If you screw up the fanservice whats the point.

Also, there are some slightly confusing tie-ins to the first movie. I mean, from what I've heard and remember Sabretooth here talks a lot, then in the next movie he gets blonde hair, becomes mute and forgets Logan ever existed.

Its kinda weird. Its a pretty big plot hole. Also, Cyclops meets Wolverine here right? Well, fine, but when we saw the first movie its like he never knew the guy.

The game looks awesome though.
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I mean, from what I've heard and remember Sabretooth here talks a lot, then in the next movie he gets blonde hair, becomes mute and forgets Logan ever existed.

... Huh? Sabretooth talked in the first X-Men. I'd wager he remembered Logan too, considering it was Logan he attacked. IT was Logan who didn't remember him.
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Wolverine and Cyclops interaction is limited, ab Cyclops is either blindfolded or forced to keep his eyes shut.
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I'm just repeating what I heard.
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On the subject of Deadpool, I think he's a rare instance where the destination is more important then how you get there. The most important aspects about the character are his wit, insanity and ability to break the fourth wall. He's a character whom's origin is really not that big a deal; it's who he becomes at the end of the day that matters.

As I've said through the wait to the film, as long as he's as he should be by the end, I don't care how they got there. I'm not going to lie, the Baraka-esque details scared the daylights out of me. But I've heard what happens in his ending now. He's there, he's where he needs to be. Now the fun can start if they see fit to give him his own movie.

A lot of people probably expected him to quickly get disfigured, turn into the crazed lunatic we all know and love and then play a big part in the movie in some way. I knew that was never going to happen going in. This was Wolverine's movie after all and let's face it; Deadpool as he always is as a big part of the film would have been a scene stealer.

Just give me a Deadpool spinoff now. Do want.
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