You kill lots and lots of things in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. That's the most simplistic way to view the latest movie-to-game adaptation of the Hugh Jackman-produced money-spinner franchise. You kill, maim, dismember your way through stage after stage, endless waves of faceless grunts, robots pulled from Mass Effect, strange molten monsters, telekinetic blue chicks with wiggly torsos and the same huge ogre that we're pretty sure took a few scalps in Resident Evil 4 - all of these will fall at Logan's hairy feet.
Make no mistake – Wolverine's latest outing is undoubtedly the best he's led, but it has more in common with a hack-and-slashy version of Tomb Raider, crossed with the scale and grandiose of God of War – with adamantium claws, of course. Really, you could retitle this thing 'Logan Croft Origins: God of Killing and Crate Shifting'.
As in the movie, this is an origin story of sorts, allowing players to meander through an alternate take on the events in the film, in between and beyond. Logan's working for Colonel Stryker as part of his ops team, but he can't hack the whole murdering and being evil thing (which is funny, since he spends the rest of the game hacking apart thousands upon thousands of people). This is all recounted through flashbacks that allow you to spend your time divided between spilling the blood of heavily-armed native South Americans and Lara Crofting around.
PC System Requirements:
- CPU: Intel(R) Pentium (R) 4 3.0 GHz or Intel (R) Core (TM) 2 E6300 or AMD Athlon (TM) 64 3000+
- CPU Speed: Intel(R) Pentium (R) 4 3.0 GHz or Intel (R) Core (TM) 2 E6300 or AMD Athlon (TM) 64 3000+
- RAM: 1 GB of RAM
- OS: Windows XP(TM) and Windows Vista(R)
- Video Card: 3D hardware accelerator card required - 100% DirectX(R) 9.0c-compliant 256 MB video card and drivers.
- DirectX version: DirectX(R) 9.0c
- Sound Card: Yes
- Free Disk Space: 8 GB
- DVD-ROM: 6x speed DVD-ROM drive (600 K/sec sustained transfer rate) and drivers
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