X-men Origins Wolverine Demo
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Sunday 10 May 2009 22:07

It's like Conan, but then in Drake's Fortune's
jungle, with the swords attached to his fists. I
don't understand these kind of games. Am I supposed
to find it cool or funny when the enemies get
whacked with a maximum amount of gore? I can
understand some artistic violence aspect - as in
Tarantino movies - but the interaction doesn't add
anything. It's all canned action anyway, but
watching the Wolverine kind of violence in a
non-interactive movie might make you wonder if
you're not just a sick pervert instead of a gamer.
And I don't see the need to visualize everything. A
written description of violence can be way more
intense then an animation, that at some points has
to go into bullet-time to show all the details. A
textual description is the ultimate bullet-time.
Ulysses is June 16, 1904 in bullet-time. More
pixels and more rectangles won't get you there. Why
bother to render a helicopter and somebody's head
shoved into the rotor when anyone can just imagine
what happens based on just a few words?

But it might also have something to do with the
fact that I associate X-men mostly with a
jetstreamed transatlantic in-flight movie which
failed to be interesting enough to skip a night of
two hours of sleep.

by Roland van Ipenburg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ipenburg/blog/posts/play/2009/05/10/x-men-origins-wolverine-demo/