Alright, Hold It Right There Bub!

For the record I have to say this is probably the best Wolverine game I have ever played. And I've played a lot of them dating all the way back to the original Nintendo system. X-Men Origins: Wolverine was really fun to play. I played it nonstop from beginning to end. The game play was pretty awesome and filled with plenty of action. There is a lot of madness and mayhem in the game. There are dozens of enemies that come out of nowhere in this game all wanting to take your head off. I love that the developers kept this game mostly action based. There were a few puzzles, which were a little annoying, but like I said there was more action than brain teasers. I'll talk about the puzzle thing in another post. This was not a game where drones are just coming at you doing the same stupid thing over and over. The enemies definitely go for blood, especially the jungle natives. There were a lot of parts in the game where I just didn't know if I was gonna last long enough to make it to a save point. These enemies came out in droves as many as 6 to 7 at a time. Then after that another 6 or 7 guys came out. Luckily Wolverine has special tools & skills at his disposal. First and foremost Wolverine's bone claws, which later become adamantium claws, are the ultimate tools of death. In this game you're cutting every part of the anatomy off of your enemy. I was pretty impressed to see that. You can cut arms, heads, and legs off. You can rip guys in 2, yep 2 pieces. That reminds of Transformers when Jazz got ripped in two by Megatron. Really funny stuff. I was impressed by the many moves Wolverine had. If you grabbed you enemy in a certain angle or position you could perform a special animated action move. These happened when the enemies were close to death. You could tell they were dying because they would have a red aura outlined around their bodies. One of the special action moves would be grabbing an enemy and gutting them in mid-air then tossing them. Another, which is my favorite, would be Wolverine just taking his claws and digging into the enemy's bodies then ripping them to shreds. If you held the right trigger and any of the 4 main buttons on the Xbox 360 controller Wolverine performs a special attack. Those were the claw spin, claw cyclone, beserker rage, and the claw drill. This was a leveling game. The more you fought through the game the more experience you gained, hence you leveling up. I think I maxed out at level 40. That's as high as it would go. The game also gauged you on how well you fought the enemy by using a reflexes meter per enemy. The more you mixed it up in your fighting against a particular enemy the easier it was to beat them the next time around. Combos and continuations are definite plus in raising your reflexes level. Your skills were also gauged as well. Your skill sets could be raised by fighting and leveling up also by finding and collecting mutagens that boosted Wolverine's attributes. One of my favorite things to do was lunging at a bad guy from long range. You could see the terror in their face when they see you coming for them. Some are even on the ground backing away flailing their hands in the air as they brace for ultimate pain. It's so funny. Some even scream like little school girls. Another thing that I liked doing in the game was to throw guys around. You can grab them and throw them anywhere. I threw them off of buildings, cliffs, into each other, water, whatever. Something else that I liked about the game was that fact that you could use the environment around you. You could pick up a guy and impale him to the wall or throw a goon into a giant vent fan. If you don't comprehend things too well then this game is not for you. This game goes back and forth from old memories to present time events. I found it kind of annoying because you actually had to play through the old events to move on to the new ones which made the game really long. You definitely had to watch the cut scenes to keep up with what was going on. The game for the most part ran parallel to the movie but still had its own story to it. Eventually it ends the same as the movie does. The difference is that they added Mystique to the scenario. The bosses were pretty challenging. I enjoyed fighting the sentinel both on the ground and in the air. Flying through the air and slicing him up was really fun. Riding the Blob around and having him smash up the grocery store was hilarious. The annoying bosses were Gambit and "The merc with the mouth", Deadpool. These guys just couldn't stand still. They were just hopping all over the place. That really annoyed me. I think the best part of the game was searching for the dog tags. Some of those were pretty hard to find. I played this game through & through. I've got all the achievements to show for it. Wolverine is definitely the best at what he does. This is a game worthy of playing.