Jeff Buckland reports:
''Summer marches on and here we are again with another comic book to movie to video game adaptation. This time it's for The Incredible Hulk, a sort of re-imagining with a new star (Fight Club's Edward Norton) and an adjustment to the formula. Unfortunately, adjustment is not really what the last summer Hulk game, Ultimate Destruction, needed. It just needed a better budget and a bit more time.
And that's not what this game seems to have gotten. The Hulk moves slower this year, mostly due to the way he climbs buildings rather than running sideways directly up them, and fighting overall just seems a little more like it's dominated by timing big, slow attacks. Sure, the developers at Edge of Reality have done a passable job in recreating New York City and letting you roam around and choose between at least a couple of missions at a time, but the visuals fall flat after about 30 feet away from the Hulk. From up high, you'll see buildings in the distance rendered as untextured cubes - Sega, the publisher for this game, should have spent some money on a decent game engine and given the developers the resources to make NYC look at least a little better.''
James writes - "Last month I ventured into the debatable legacy left by the Iron Man video game, which coincided with the monumental launch of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Not long after, the big green angry member of the Avengers received his own video game in tandem with a blockbuster film. Now, ten years on, it’s time to look back at SEGA’s The Incredible Hulk to find out if he lived up to the ‘Incredible’ moniker!"
hulk: ultimate destruction was and is the best hulk game till this day. maybe insomniac can work on hulk after spidey? I wish
Agreed. I still throw it on now and again. Huge comic book gallery in there. Those are the kinda collectibles I enjoyed collecting. Practical things you can look at later, not just orbs/shards/feathers.
Kyle grew up playing a lot of video games. However, licensed video games, good and bad, hold a special place in his heart.
It's been too long since Ultimate Destruction gave us a magnificent excuse to cause absolute chaos with the Hulk. Why haven't we seen anything like it since? Click to find out!
All I want is a gory Marvel game. Maybe a Marvel Civil War RPG.
But blood and gore like X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Loved the hell outta Ultimate Destruction. So fun to run around and destroy things.
The team who made Ultimate Destruction are too busy making those Prototype games which... haven't really worked to reel people in the way the Hulk did.
One thing you will never see is a gory Marvel game that doesn't fit the character or the comics. It's because of the target audience being so young, some parents actually monitor what their kids play and so your sales will drop if you make an M rated superhero game. Wolverine's Origins game was great fun, but it was awkward taking your kids to the PG movie, only for them to not be old enough to play the game when they got home.
@VINNIEPAZ
you can say that again
prototype wasn't bad but they did their best work with hulk
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I'm the minority, but I would love a sequel to Marvel Nemesis: Rise of The Imperfects.
I thought the studio that made the hulk games closed?
I know there's others out there that can do a new one..
It would be nice... Also a new prototype would be cool too
