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The Incredible Hulk movie may be racing against time to complete its CGI effects, but the movie's videogame tie-in already has the Hulk's angry dance of destruction squared away, judging from this new trailer. The SEGA game will feature "key moments from the film" and plots and characters from the comics. But mostly you stomp around a "dynamic open" New York, throwing buses and cars at your enemies. And almost getting stepped on by giant robots. The best part? The madder Hulk gets, t he more moves the game unlocks. Click through for screenshots.
The Incredible Hulk movie may be racing against time to complete its CGI effects, but the movie's videogame tie-in already has the Hulk's angry dance of destruction squared away, judging from this new trailer. The According to SEGA, here are the game's key features:
Unlimited Destruction: Become the Incredible Hulk and experience unlimited destruction. Players can demolish anything in their path and also use it as a weapon - pieces of a crumbling building...a passing car...a light standard. They can even demolish buildings with their bare hands. Damage is persistent, and gamers can use it to gain access to previously unreachable areas.
Powerful Rage: Rage is power. Build the Hulk's rage to learn powerful moves. Cause unheard-of damage to gain and upgrade his abilities.
Incredible Scale: New York City's towering skyscrapers allow for exciting vertically based gameplay, while powerful, massive enemies such as Bi-Beast and the Abomination challenge the Hulk's might.
Dynamic Open World: A realistic next-gen, open-world representation of Manhattan provides gamers with an immense playground of destruction that also contains sub-quests, minigames, and a story that reaches beyond the film to include elements from classic Marvel comics.
Comments
...it's not Marvel unless Wolverine steals all the glory.
The problem with this game is that Edward Norton will come grab the controller away from you and tell you you're doing it wrong.
Is any else getting kinda tired of developers using HDR rendering in place of good graphics?
Those textures and models are fairly low res, but slap HDR on it and it's next-gen! Ooh! Aah!
@Seth L:
It's all about production costs. If you remember when the 360 and PS3* came out there was all sorts of talk about how the higher resolutions and more detailed graphics were going to break the developers' budgets? Well, this is the answer.
The creators are kind of backed into a corner. If they don't deliver a 'next-gen graphics experience' their game will be mocked and bomb. However, the cost of actually making an entire game like this with high poly models and high res textures is easily over 100 million. Possibly several hundred million. Realistically no matter how great the game is, they would never make that back off of a hulk tie-in game. TV shows and movies with similar budgets can make it back because they keep earning for years. A game breaks even in two months or never.
So you get this. Shiny enough that they can sell it as next-gen but built of enough smoke and mirrors that they can afford to make it.
*Much as I love mine, the Wii really has no place in a discussion of graphics power
Comment on The Madder Hulk Gets, The More Options You Have In Video Game This looks a LOT like the game "Hulk: Unlimited Destruction." Now, don't get me wrong, that was a fun game, but this appears, from the trailer, to be a reskinned version of that. And I'm surprised that I'm the first person to point this out.
You can't kill wolverine! If you do, then that whole bull**** chess-game between the higher beings goes to the bad guy, and he wreaks hella havoc. I wish I could supply more details, but that is about as much of that comic I can remember.
@Ghede: @gods-n-clods: Forgot to include reply.
@Ryan H:
Well said, thanks!
And the Wii certainly isn't next-gen, but it's the greatest social lubricant since alcohol, so I don't mind putting up with crappy graphics.
So...we may like him when he's angry?
@Seth L:
Since alcohol? You speak as if they are not a natural combination.
It's never been my experience that better graphics are indicative of better games. The SNES/Genesis era was enough progression along that path for me, since I could tell what things were supposed to be.
As it stands, the games that are the most fun to play seem to be lower graphical quality. Pretty games often just seem...shallow in other regards.
It's almost at the point where I'm expecting games to disappoint when I see how good they look. Hulk, on the other hand, doesn't look all that nice.
Always New York City. Why can't we tear up Texas? Those loudmouths have sumthin' comin' to them, I'll tell you whut.
This looks a lot like Hulk Ultimate Destruction, which was a great game
The Wii isn't really going for realistic next gen graphics. It's marketed as a social game system and most of the games are geared for cartoony animation. Which is just fine by me. I'll take Super Mario Galaxy and Zelda: Twilight Princess over some silly movie tie-in or obnoxious military training sim any day.
Hot damn, game looks great. Ultimate Destruction was killer and this looks like it on steroids. Can't wait.
@Ryan H:
Their powers combine to form CAPTAIN PLANET!
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