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User Rating: 8 | Hulk PS2
By gardhiwasam | Review Date:
The Hulk. Marvel's strongest and the most misunderstood superhero of all gets his own video game title in which you smash, bash and create utter chaos. And true believer if you are worried Bruce Banner wouldn't show up after a game titled Hulk, fear not because he has come with his own unique way of smashing and bashing and joining in the action. This game was released in 2003 just before the release of the movie and it has a quite a different story. Most of the time if a game is released along-side a movie, the game plainly suck because the developers don't have any time to finish the game and stuck with the movie's story.This may be the case for the Hulk, but it has number of things which gives us gamers a chance to neglect its flaws and concentrate on the pure fun of this game. OK, so as mentioned above the Story is quite different from the movie, in fact it takes place after year from the movie. Story starts with a call from Professor Crawford who used to be Banner's mentor. Crawford informs Banner he had found a cure for the hulk and tells Banner to break into a facility with a special machine to rid the world of Hulk forever. However as the story unfolds, Crawford steals Banner's Gamma energy to become a super-villain named Ravage. Ravage plans on unleashing an army of gamma muties into the world with another classic Hulk villain, The Leader. So, Banner have to stop The Leader and Ravage and save the world(how typical). This is an all right story which gives the developers a chance to cram in some villains and characters. Okay now to the Gameplay....Game play of this title is one of the greatest AND the worst part of this game.Playing as Hulk you can practically smash everything in your way or pick-up cars and tanks to use as weapons. You also have some obstacles which only Hulk can overcome like Tanks, Gamma-dogs, various Hulk villains. However there is another side to this game, which is namely BRUCE BANNER and yes comic geeks its the alter-ego of the HULK or...um.. vice-versa. Anyway, there is number of stages in this game where you play as Banner using stealth and genius to overcome any obstacle in your way or a simple soldier. Banner only have a simple punch and grab to use against enemies he would encounter. Its better to not engage the enemy at all since you have only two moves and will lose immediately. He also have to solve many computer puzzles which you will have to complete in order to progress. These puzzles are neither fun or challenging which makes them tedious. In terms of presentation it is an OKAY game since this is 2003. The graphics are cell-shaded meaning that they have comic book like feel to it which is quite nice. Also the cinematics are beautifully done and have a realistic feeling to it. I have this game for both Windows PC and Xbox and they are quite similar in all elements discussed above.


Story: 7.5
Gameplay: 8.5(for Hulk)/ 5.0(for Banner)
Graphics/Presentation: 7.8
Overall:7.9

Review By:
Gardhiwasamdesilva
11/04/08

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