A highly enjoyable smash fest to get into. Hulk smash!
The game's plot is based on the comics,and concern's Bruce Banner's efforts to find a cure for the Hulk, while he is relentlessly persued by sinister forces. All you need to know is that you have to help by finding specific items he needs to cure himself, and smash anyone in the way. This means the steath levels of the last game are gone: you play as the jolly green giant 100% of the time, and are thrown into a free-roaming environment with free-reign to do as you wish. Or smah everything.
The game's main body is the story missions. In these, you fulfill objectives, which mainly involve collecting stuff, destroying things, escort missions, and even a Metal Gear type espionage mission with you using a supply truck instead of a cardboard box. Essentially, all these missions are too similar in my opinion, and since they come one at a time, its too easy to shoot through the game. The numerous side missions are more enjoyable though. They include such distractions as golf, races, full-on smash fests, baseball, carry missions and other madness. The variet and number of these missions is enough to keep you coming back, as completing them gives you smash points.
Smash points? Well, we get them by smashing stuff and doing missions, then use them to buy big green extra moves at his church hideout. The many dozens of moves include running grab, club smash, missile catch, a massive elbow drop, the ability to grab onto aircraft and drag them down, and my favourite, the hammer toss: grab a tank by its barrel, then spin and throw it like a hammer miles away. Brilliant as hell. There's at least a hundred such moves, and as you spend more and more smah points, you get dozens of ways to destroy, kill and smash your opponents. and you'll need them.
The Hulk is unstoppable on the move. You can run at a decent clip, but can also leap miles into the air, travelling through the city or desert as as all hell follows behind. With the ability to wall run and climb, your enemies will have a hard time keeping up with you. which is why your enemies include VTOL jets, attack choppers, and 'Hulkbusters', mech suits powerful enough to take you on man to man. Until you flatten them of course. Either way, things can get incredibly chaotic at times, with the might of the US army descending in force. You need a good knowledge of your own abilities to pull through, and this is not an easy game.
On other levels, the graphics may be a bit low-res, but the huge detailed environments make up for it, with both a city and a barren desert to fight through. As for sound, decent voice work punctuates the cut-scenes, while the sometimes desperate radio chatter of your enemies is amusing to hear.
Hulk also has some epic boss fights. Though they aren't brawls like in the last game, your enemies are often much bigger than you and require some thinking to defeat. For instance, the Titan is a hundred foot tall hulkbuster that has enough weapons to level an entire city, and the fight with it is an exhilirating chase as you dodge its missiles and shells, and toss tanks at it. There is also theDevil Hulk, banner's 'evil' personality you face in an intense conflict of wills, as the immense beast launches fireballs and attempts to crush you like a bug in its grasp. You wont forget these battles.
So in all, Hulk is an enjoyable smash fest of a game that, is somewhat short, but makes up for it with its grin-inducing appeal. Hulk Smash!