x360a: X-Men Origins: Wolverine Review

x360a writes: "It's a hard thing as a comic book and video game fan to see such a degradation of quality from paper to screen. It gets worse when there is another step in between in the form of a game based on a movie based on comic books. I've called it the "Multiplicity Effect" (based on the Michael Keaton movie) where it keeps getting worse as you make a copy of a copy. After dismal showings from my beloved Marvel characters in the Iron Man and Fantastic Four video games, I truly wasn't expecting much from X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Lucky for me, developer Raven Software (X-Men Legends and Marvel Ultimate Alliance) was at the helm, and they know what it takes to make a good superhero game.

The game mostly follows the plot of the movie. Though it does take some liberties, the results are for the better, which has never been the case for these translations. It starts off in a flashback of Wolverine's time with his Weapon X squad in the jungles of Africa, looking for the raw material Adamantium, which would later be infused to his skeleton at the AlkalaiLake facility. Throughout the games present day sequence, there are short breaks back into the past as both stories are told in full. Extra characters are included such as Mystique and a teleporting little girl, while some are omitted such as Bolt, Cyclops and Emma Frost..."