That was the 2009 movie tie-in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which was official enough that it featured Hugh Jackman's ripped likeness and gravelly voice honed by almost a decade in the role. But maybe reexamining the last proper high-profile Wolverine game could throw up some useful pointers. While hardly all-time classics, some had their enjoyable quirks (it's worth seeking out the raucous SNES soundtrack to 1994's Wolverine: Adamantium Rage, which sounds like the dawn of drill.) It is unlikely that Insomniac - a studio that could reasonably claim to be the best there is at what they do, which is making triple-A games about Marvel superheroes - will be poring over Logan's back catalogue of Game Boy Colour titles in search of inspiration.
(Or to put it another way: when it came to gaming, Logan had a pretty good run.)Īs well as rounding out the mutant cast of dozens of X-Men games, Wolverine's wild popularity as a solo comic character meant he also headlined his own titles. This unexpected comeback for the hirsute, hair-trigger mutant - in a proper PlayStation 5 game, not just as a Fortnite skin - harks back to the period where Wolverine was a permanent fixture. A new Wolverine game? From Insomniac, careful and conscientious crafters of recent PlayStation blockbusters Spider-Man and Miles Morales? Sign me up, bub, even after that briefest of cinematic trailers where all you really see of Marvel's prickly brawler is a scruffy lumberjack shirt, a battered cowboy hat and the familiar "snikt" of adamantium blades popping out of bloodied knuckles.
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