X2: Wolverine's Revenge

Cheat Code Central

If I had a chance to play this during the years I was a complete Wolverine fanatic I would have passed out from pleasure overload. No kidding... This is the one of the finest comic book games to date.

Gamezilla!

While the game falls short of being truly awesome, Wolverine fans will find plenty to like about Wolverine’s Revenge and should definitely check it out.

Maxim Online

While most of Revenge’s game play involves turning bad guys into kebab, the game’s strict homage to the comic gives it more depth.

GameZone

Could have been so much more than what it turned out to be. GenePool Software should have delayed this game a month to iron out the AI, camera control, and other issues that this game had from time to time.

TeamXbox

There are enough secrets in here to keep you busy for at least another play through. Add that to the list of characters from the comic books and you’ve got yourself a great buy.

Village Voice

Deploying your special powers is motivation enough to move through the game's booby-trapped military complexes, crash sites, mines, caves, and places that look like mines or caves.

Cincinnati Enquirer

Controlling Wolverine during combat can prove difficult, especially when there are multiple enemies onscreen simultaneously.

IGN

Revenge succeeds with a story and style that fits Wolvie perfectly. But the gameplay has far too many holes and the sound and graphics are nothing special for Xbox.

Armchair Empire

Even a fan like me can’t help but term the control a bit problematic.

GameSpy

It's not so much that the enemies are hard to kill, or that the simplistic level design inflicts any brain-bending puzzles, but more that the inherent trial-and-error style progression through the levels gets tedious to the point of removing all the fun from playing.

Game Over Online

A disappointment. Though the gameplay is okay, it's nothing special, and despite the awesome license this game possesses, it’s sure to grate on anyone after a few hours.

Weekly Famitsu

7 / 5 / 6 / 7 - 25 [Vol 815; 30 July 2004]

Game Chronicles

A totally uninspired game with shoddy graphics, weak sound, clumsy controls, and only enough content to make this worth a weekend rental or perhaps a budget purchase when the title makes it to the Platinum Hits.

Total Video Games

It’s difficult to knock Wolverine’s Revenge too much because it does offer some neat ideas, but unfortunately GenePool has seemingly forgotten about the fundamentals and left us with little to get excited about after the brief initial interest.

Official Xbox Magazine

There's a split-second delay between button-press and action, and Wolvie is as agile as a sack of potatoes. Enemy AI is spotty, there are no in-level saves, and boss battles can be puzzling. [July 2003, p.78]

GameSpot

A game with some promise and some good ideas, but a half-cocked presentation and execution.

Into Liquid Sky

A lot of the levels suffer from trial and error gameplay, where you have to do a series of things correctly or else you're forced to start over at the beginning of the level. While this might be okay for two or three tries, some stages may take a lot of tries before you get through, leading to excessive frustration.

Game Informer

The game's complete lack of refinement and polish... renders all of its strengths irrelevant. [June 2003, p.112]

GMR Magazine

Playing it is slightly more fun than swallowing a lawn mower. [July 2003, p.72]

GamePro

Wolverine's Revenge also has some haggard camera work and sluggish controls, not to mention retarded collision detection and counter-intuitively mapped commands (have fun trying to readjust the camera while in stealth mode).

Adrenaline Vault

Below average in every sense of the term; the title contains some interesting gameplay mechanics and concepts, but never executes them with any measure of success.

Xbox Nation Magazine

A decent story and some excellent stealth-based play prevent Revenge from sinking head-long into a hole of suck. [June-July 2003, p.95]

Play Magazine

There are some good ideas here, but the lack of detail, soft collision (Wolvie sinks ankle-high into any raised surface), murky control and low poly counts make Logan a dull boy. [June 2003, p.58]

Entertainment Weekly

The pacing is sluggish, the gameplay irritating, and ultimately it feels like Wolverine is exacting revenge on the wrong person: the player. [2 May 2003, p.79]

TotalGames.net

Some shoddy game design and AI, proves Wolverine’s Revenge to be more Thomson and Co than Marvel; that interactive comic just isn’t interactive enough.

Game Revolution

There's no way I could recommend buying this wallet draining mutant. While the heart of the character is here, the brain is not.

GameNow

The combo-heavy action sequences are tedious, the stealth controls are sloppy. [June 2003, p.54]