X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Uncaged Edition for PlayStation 3 Reviews by Gamers

This is not your typical 5 hour game based on a comic book character. First off, it has a nice legnth to it, maybe 15 hours and I wasn't ready for it to end, I could have played a few more chapters. The gameplay is good and you have several attacks and power ups so its not your typical button masher. The story and graphics are good as is the voice acting. The game is repetitive at times but overall, its a big improvement over other Marvel games..

I don't plan to keep this game, but I factored it's buying value in my score. Wolverine gives you enough HOLY $H!] moments to be worth the rental alone. Had I bought this game, I would not be a happy camper, though. I wish I had looked up a cheat to unlock hard difficulty before I played the whole game on medium, as the game is fairly easy (I rarely ever died from combat) and ALL your accomplishments don't carry over. You have to start a new game from 0, so you have the choice to replay the game in your previous super easy difficulty to get trophies and all the hidden upgrades.

Speaking of the upgrades, maybe on hard they become a necessity, but you can basically get through the game lunging at minor enemies and doing the same 2 combos on everyone else, as long as you upgrade your claws for higher damage, you're good to go. So you're basically doing combos because they look cool (and look cool they do), not because you actually need them (a higher discrepancy in exp earned for cooler varied kills would have been sweet).

You get thrown the same big enemies over and over again, ad-nauseum, to the point where it seems so lazy and imaginative, it's frustratingly comical.

The game suffers from an overall lack of polish that comes with it being a movie tie-in. Your bone claws make the metal SHINK noise and you can tell a lot of time was spent on Logan and his regeneration (which is overall excellent), and not so much on other characters that probably look worse than PS2 Final Fantasy characters. The repetitiveness also applies to the voice acting in-game.

The overall feeling playing this game is that if they had spent 6 more months to a year on it, this could have been absolutely EPIC. As it stands, due to their deadline, they made a fun great rental that I refuse to play over from scratch on (a not so hard) hard difficulty, just to get to look at Gambit's awful hair, listen to his lame voice over, and kill the same monsters the same way over and over again.