The
Incredible Hulk: Hulk fans are sure to have a blast smashing their way
through every destructible obstacle the game throws at them.
For
as much as superhero movies have improved over recent years, the games
based on the same intellectual properties haven't exactly kept up. Just
look at Spider-Man, Batman, The Punisher, or the Fantastic Four--er, OK,
maybe not the Fantastic Four--and then look at the games that have
followed up on the hit movies.
Generally,
there's a pretty wide gap between film and game quality, even when the
game itself isn't directly based on the movie. 2003's game based on The
Hulk franchise suffered from a similar issue. While the game was mostly
OK, it lacked depth, and it threw together too many hackneyed gameplay
mechanics that just weren't conducive to an enjoyable experience playing
as everyone's favorite angry, green hero. Thankfully, developer Radical
Entertainment saw the problems with the original game and didn't give
up, putting together a hugely improved sequel in the form of The
Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. Featuring something of an
open-ended structure, a bevy of crazy moves and destructible, well,
everything, Ultimate Destruction places you in a veritable playground
designed just for those who love the Hulk's methodology of destruction
over discretion. Though the game does have its flaws, the fact that
Ultimate Destruction does such a good job of actually making you feel
like you are The Hulk makes its issues much more forgivable.
Ultimate
Destruction isn't based on the Ang Lee Hulk film from a couple of years
ago. Like THQ's recent Punisher game, it focuses more on the comic-book
universe, putting together a storyline that brings such familiar
characters as Doc Samson and the Abomination (aka Emil Blonsky) into the
fold. There isn't an awful lot to the plot of the game. Essentially,
Bruce Banner is already the Hulk by the time the game begins, and he and
Doc are working on a way to try to cure him. Enter Blonsky and a cadre
of government soldiers, who want nothing more than to wipe out our
friend, Big Green. Clearly, this aggression will not stand, and through
the several chapters of story the game presents, Hulk smashes whatever
tries to stand in his way.
And
smash he does. What Ultimate Destruction absolutely does best is give
you a metric ton of ways to completely obliterate anything around you.
Hulk starts off with some fairly basic punches and throws that let him
do plenty of damage to the scenery around him, but as you play through
the game, you'll earn smash points via your destructive tendencies,
which can be used to purchase new moves. These moves range from
humongous seismic bursts that explode everything within a 30-foot radius
to crazy hammer-throw moves that let you whip tanks as if doing so were
an Olympic event. Hulk is also armed with a number of "weaponizations,"
which are basically ways he can take things--like nearby cars,
streetlamps, or what have you--and turn them into methods of mayhem.
You
can pick up buses and smash them into useful shields, rip cars in half,
wrap them around your fists to effectively give Hulk his own pair of
novelty "Hulk Hands," or pick up a nearby missile launcher and simply
throw the missiles at oncoming helicopters. There are literally dozens
upon dozens of moves to unlock, and almost all of them are an absolute
riot. The game isn't exactly stingy with the smash points either, and
even when you do run low, all you need to do is head to one of the
game's main environments and go nuts.
During
the game, Hulk takes up residence at a secluded, abandoned church
somewhere in the middle of nowhere. But from there he has access to a
few jump points, where he can literally jump hundreds of feet in the air
to reach new areas, the primary of which are a major metropolis and the
badlands (a barren desert with several military installations).
Similarly to those of the Grand Theft Auto games, story missions are
accessible from icons found in each area, and they are denoted on your
map.
The
story itself is quite linear, as you're only given one story mission at
a time. But in between story missions, you can run and do any number of
a whole lot of available side missions, which earn you more smash
points. These missions range from simple checkpoint races around the
world, to rescue missions, to long-jump competitions with a giant monkey
balloon acting as a parachute (we'd try to explain, but trust us when
we say it makes more sense in the context of the game). There are a
whole lot of these side missions, giving you plenty of lasting play
beyond the scope of the story missions. And that's good, since there
really isn't a lot of breadth to the storyline portion of the game.
Not crush, not smush, not bash, not crash. The Hulk will only SMASH!
In
many ways, The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction is exactly what a
quality single-player adventure based on a license ought to be. It pays
ample service to the Hulk fan base through numerous obscure references
to assorted comic-book bric-a-brac and lots of unlockable materials, and
it manages to get the game portion of the equation down pat, creating a
world well-suited to Hulk and his destructive tendencies. Sure, it
isn't the deepest, longest, or most technically proficient game out
there, but fans of the comic book are sure to have a blast smashing
their way through every destructible obstacle the game throws at them,
and anybody else with a penchant for obliteration ought to at least give
Ultimate Destruction a look.
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