Mention X-Men Origins: Wolverine to a cinephile and they’ll probably burst into tears. It’s a movie so terrible that it made the swine flu epidemic only the second-worst global disaster of 2009, and it honestly wasn’t even close. But mention X-Men Origins: Wolverine to people who played the PS3 game and you’ll get a very different response.
“The game was genuinely better than the movie,” says reader Aaran Mecalfe, who isn’t simply damning it with faint praise. “If Insomniac’s upcoming Wolverine game has taken any inspiration from this magnificent game, then we’re all in for a treat.”
Magnificent? It’s a view shared by Kyle Lipford. “This didn’t feel like a tie-in, but like an honest effort to make a great Wolverine game. And they accomplished that.” These comments aren’t outliers. There’s a…
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