PS3 Review – X-Men Origins: Wolverine – Uncaged Edition
Another pretty cool feature is Wolverine’s leaping ability. By pushing R1 to target an enemy, then pushing L1, Wolverine will lunge at the enemy with his claws. Knowing how to block is key as well, seeing as there are enemies that will rush Wolverine with their very own blades or even rockets. Blocking someone using blades deflects their attack and gives the opportunity to unleash a counterattack, and blocking a rocket at the correct time will deflect the rocket back at the enemy.
The rest of the combat consists of a combination of heavy attacks and light attacks. The light attacks are a lot quicker and do a good amount of damage. The heavy attacks of course do more damage, but they take longer to pull off, and they can also be charged to deliver extra damage to enemies. There are also special attacks that can be unlocked as players progress through the game. For example, Wolverine can go into a beserk mode, as well as doing a corkscrew attack that shreds enemies apart.
The game also features many platforming elements to it and even some stealth tactics at times, so it’s not always about the combat. There are even some puzzles that occasionally need to be solved to progress into the next area of a level. They are not overly difficult, and can usually be accomplished with ease. There are also a few moments in the game where Wolverine has lost his power of regeneration, so the player must progress more carefully.
The game revolves a lot around the regeneraton ability. Considering it is Wolverine’s main mutant ability, this makes sense. Wolverine has two different health bars; the first one that decreases is his regeneration bar. Once this bar has been depleted, the second bar of health will begin to decrease. If the enemy is able to fully deplete this bar, then Wolverine will be knocked out and will be captured, thus making the user have to reload the last checkpoint and reattempt the area.
Taking out enemies nets players experience that allows Wolverine to level up and gain more abilities. Items scattered around the game such as dogtags can also give EXP to Wolverine. Levelling up awards attribute points that can be assigned as wanted. Individual moves can be upgraded, or broader things such as the claw attack and health can be upgraded. Another notable customization is the mutagens found throughout the game. They can be assigned to three available slots in the customization menu, and include things like extra health, dealing more damage, and gaining health from dealing damage. There are many of these mutagens available to customize Wolverine’s fighting style.
Graphically the game is pretty good overall. Both the character detail and environment details are great. The most impressive effects are the damages to Wolverine’s character within the game. Considering he has healing abilities, he can literally walk on almost nothing but the skeletal portion of his leg, resulting from a grenade explosion, and it will slowly regenerate. At one point, I got bombarded with artillery shells on Alkali Lake, and Wolverine was literally missing part of his face and most of his torso.
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November 15th, 2009 at 10:14 PM
what’s the difference between the regular one and this uncaged edition? Does this one have the DLC in it already? Anyways this is an awesome game and shows more gruesome murders in it than what the movie showed and l loved the part with the sentinel which should have been in the movie. Good score and it played like a GoW game which is probably why l liked it
11/15/2009 at 11:25 PM
The Uncaged Edition is what they call the PS3 and 360 versions. It’s essentially the next gen versions.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:33 AM
much better review than IGN’s for this title. IGN always said that the story didn’t make any sense and the movie didn’t either. I followed both just fine so I don’t know what that says about the guys over at IGN…..Overall this was a great game, lots of fun, solid gameplay, and awesome gore. However, when it came down to it, it was really only worth one play through and I sold it right away but NOT TO GAMESTOP! I know better. I got $45 for my copy on eBay instead of the $15 or $20 I would have gotten from trading it.
November 16th, 2009 at 9:52 AM
Good review. I think it on point. This is a fun title, The button mashing can get old at some points though
November 16th, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Great review I’ve always wanted to try it. Maybe I will give it a rent now
November 16th, 2009 at 2:01 PM
Uncaged edition has the fighting arena, you can buy it on the PSN for regular edition owners.
this game kicks ass btw, right up there with Batman once you level up a bit
November 16th, 2009 at 10:05 PM
i think i might rent this now, thanks Joseph