Wolverine's Revenge?

[rowport]

Hey, guys! I picked up "Wolverine's Revenge", the console port to PC game, at EB on the cheap, and just loaded it up last night. Holy cow, what a craptastic game. I am a big X-Men fan, which was barely enough to keep me suffering through it for a couple of hours. The controls suck royally, and most amazing of all, the game crashes on a regular basis running on my very decent PC. I looked for a patch download, but no luck. Am I missing something, or should I just give up and realize that I wasted the cash??

 

[rowport]

... Bueller?

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[crickets]

 

[Enforcer]

Gamespot gave it a 5.8...which means pretty mediocre, so I'm not surprised that it sucks. Sorry...

 

[rowport]

Well, thanks for your sympathy, Enforcer! That'll teach me not to buy cheapo games- they must be cheap for a reason! LOL

 

[Enforcer]

As a general rule, video games that are also movie tie-ins are terrible. Wolverine's Revenge was timed with X-Men 2 I believe.

Though, Chronicles of Riddick for Xbox is supposed to be superlative, but that's the only exception to the movie tie-in rule I'm aware of.

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

Yeah everything I've seen about Wolverine's Revenge it was a poorly designed beat-em up.

As a general rule, video games that are also movie tie-ins are terrible. Wolverine's Revenge was timed with X-Men 2 I believe.

Though, Chronicles of Riddick for Xbox is supposed to be superlative, but that's the only exception to the movie tie-in rule I'm aware of.

The only other recent good movie to game tie in is Spider-Man 2 on the consoles. However Spider-Man 2 on the PC is a bad, bad game from everything I've heard. Basically the PC and console versions are two different games and done by two different development houses.

 

[rowport]

Hey, Dreamer! It is funny that you mention Spiderman 2; I was back in EB this past weekend, and saw a copy of the PC SM 2 already in the discount rack- I was sorely tempted to get it, until I remembered that I just got burned with Wolverine. Thanks for saving me some cash, guys!

 

[Doctor Futurity]

I played and finished ( ) Wolverine's Revenge for the Xbox; it deserves all the trash-talking it gets. While I liked the stealth/combat features, the targetting was bad, even the Xbox edition was buggy, and the level designs were erratic and increasingly difficult, ramping up to impossible pas 2/3rd of the way through; I scraped through on codes through the last couple of levels, and had to use an invulnerability feat to even have a chance of defeating Deathstrike at the end.....and it still took almost 95 MINUTES to finish the final game level WITH INVULNERABILITY....!!!!

I was pretty much in your boat: got the game, couldn't return it, and was hell-bound to get my money's worth (+I was getting back in to X-Men, courtesy of the movie).

Instead of wasting precious hours of your life on this game, I would suggest looking for X-Men Legends, which is a more role-playing, Baldur's Gate style of game that is getting good reviews, and is a comic tie-in, not a movie tie-in. I picked it up today, coincidentally, and am much more impressed so far.

 

[rowport]

Well, I regret that you were stuck also Cama, but I guess I am glad that I am not the only one. Anyway, after my PC crashed the 8-9 times playing it, I gave up on the game- not worth it. Is X-Men legends being ported to PC? I would like to play it, but do not own a console (too much fighting with the wife for TV time..!). I love the KOTOR PC port, so it can be done well. It just usually is not.