Product Description

Featuring an original story line written exclusively for Activision by comics' industry legend Larry Hama, and featuring the voices of Mark Hamill and Patrick Stewart, X-Men: Wolverine's Revenge lets players take on the role of Wolverine, everyone's favourite X-Men tough guy. In the game, Wolverine faces a race against time to find an antidote to the viral time bomb that's just been discovered in his system. With only 48 hours to live, Wolverine returns to the clandestine Department H facility deep in the Canadian wilderness, to uncover the terrible secrets behind the Weapon X laboratory and the experiments that turned the mutant hero into a precision killing machine.

As with all mutants, Wolverine has unique abilities that set him apart from the rest of humanity--deadly claws to defeat the greatest of foes, animal-like super senses to assist in tracking enemies, an enhanced mutant healing factor, unbreakable bones to withstand devastating amounts of punishment and superior strength and reflexes for an added edge in combat. In X-Men: Wolverine's Revenge players will have to master all of these skills in order to defeat the sinister forces massing against them led by arch-villains Juggernaut, Wendigo, Magneto and Sabertooth. Luckily, players won't have to face the onslaught alone and can expect occasional backup from fellow X-Men including Professor-X and Beast.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18030 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Released on: 2003-04-17
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 95

Amazon.co.uk Review
You've read the comic, you've seen the film--now be the mutant! X-Men 2: Wolverine's Revenge puts you in the adamantium-spiked shoes of the X-Men’s meanest hero.

While comics are having a bit of renaissance in films lately, with several decent versions of four-colour heroes making it to the big screen, the only half-decent superhero game is still Spider-Man. Wolverine's Revenge should change all that with what promises to be a genuinely worthwhile game in its own right. Tying in only loosely to the new X-men movie, this is basically a Wolverine simulator which traces his life from his first appearance as Weapon X in 1968 to a series of deadly battles in the modern day against the likes of Lady Deathstrike and Sabretooth.

As you'd expect, the emphasis of the action in the game is on 3-D combat and this works extremely well, with various combos to unlock and the ability to fight multiple bad guys at once. More interesting though is the way you can use Wolvie's animal senses to follow scent particles in the air, hear distant sounds and track an enemy's heat signature. This aspect of the game works incredibly well and allows you to play the game as either an all-out actioner or a more tactical, stealth-based affair.

It's unusual to see a comic character portrayed so accurately in a game, with all their powers intact, but Wolverine's Revenge really pulls it off and combines it with some great gameplay and cool graphics. --David Jenkins

Manufacturer's Description
X-Men: Wolverine's Revenge is the only action-adventure that allows players to assume the role of Wolverine. After discovering that a deadly X-Virus has been activated within Wolverine's body, the player has 48 hours to acquire the antidote from the evil organization that not only gave them the disease, but also their mutation.

Customer Reviews

Fun for hours
This game gets 5/5 for while it may not be the best ever made it's tons of fun. Mark Hamill gives a great voice for Logan which really helps set the tone. The game is divided into acts with a Boss level - a familiar format but hey let's face it, it works. You can ONLY save between levels which makes it harder, but all the more rewarding once you get there - and the higher levels really make you earn it! Even if you're not a huge Wolverine fan, you'll probably find this fun. It's got a great design though the graphics are more of a 4/5 at times, the movies contain some good material. There are some great lines in it as well. Once you beat the game there are still some surprises - but it lets you save the final game and you can access all the previous levels and replay them for things you may have missed. The developers have made it more than just a game - you can change costumes, listen to music (though for some reason you can only listen one track at a time instead of a continous track-track playback), view videos. I won't give it all away, but I beat it several days ago and am still going back and playing the levels. Wolverine's strike moves are a really great idea (certain key combos = some AWESOME tricks).

Thought I liked it at first
This game tricked me into liking it at first...
I think I wanted to like it so much that I ended up liking it.
After a while though I realised that its a rather shoddy, "consoley" conversion, which is far too linear and formulaic. The only good thing about it really is that its about Wolverine, who is of course unbelievably cool. Not a great game though - seems a bit rushed.

Not the Best but still good
When i first started to play on my PC version of Wolverines Revenge, it reminded me of the game ONI. The fighting beat em up style is the same and so is the saving system which makes the game harder, which in my opinion is a good thing. The graphics could be better. But what are you buying it for? To be Wolverine plain and simple, slashing, slicing and dicing your foes is very enjoyable. So maybe not for everyone one, but if you like X-MEN, you'll like this!