The Incredible Hulk – Video Game Review

The guys over at Worth Playing have a review of the new video game, “The Incredible Hulk” by Sega. Here’s a little snippet:

Marvel’s roll call of films continues with “The Incredible Hulk,” and right on its massive heels is the almost inevitable console adaptation. Sega’s new game is pretty fun for a sandbox beat-’em-up, but a slew of problems make much of the game feel as if it had just left the lab without having been tested.

Sega’s third-person city buster roughly follows the film while embellishing it with a few extra twists. To add a few more challenges to the main story, new enemies crop up as things unfold, including the scientific cabal known as the Enclave, a rogue Army officer, some new guy who is always giving missions to Bruce Banner, and a band of superpowered mutants. If you’ve seen the film, you’ll be in for a few surprises. If you haven’t seen the movie but are just a fan of the Hulk, The Incredible Hulk game manages to succeed in turning you into an unnatural force that nature and science can do little to stop … aside from the bugs.

Along with a few other film actors, Ed Norton, Liv Tyler and John Hurt have returned to voice the game, and the results are somewhat mixed, mostly due to the low-quality cut scenes but also because of the surprisingly wooden acting from a few of the stars. Most of these are stills with voice-overs, but the cuts themselves don’t do much for the story. The music, on the other hand, is pretty good ear candy for when you’re blowing away storefronts with your fists. Heavy beats are accompanied by a growling guitar in the background, although it occasionally drops out and leaves you in silence right in the middle of playing.

The Big Apple doesn’t look half-bad up close, and there is a lot to explore in the city as the Hulk. Famous landmarks such as the Empire State Building, Trump Tower, and the Met are there to check out — or bring down, in case you’re in a bad mood. Cars crumple like paper in the Hulk’s hands, people go flying everywhere as he runs into them, and walls and windows explode to leave behind twisted wreckage. This is a city where comic book rules apply to everything, as weird as it can be to throw civilians at Army helicopters.

You can read the rest of the review over at WorthPlaying.com