Wolverine at his Best.....

The X-men origins: wolverine is a kind of game that would be so much lovable to play no matter what. It has got the ever loving cinematic fell in the game play plus you get to kick the bad-ass villains in varied and stylish combos. Whether it’s the dueling mode, one-on-one or the chained rage moves, its simply awesome to watch as well as to play.

The story begins with a splendid cut-scene from the future showing Wolverine as a monster with tremendous healing powers and his combat skills to use the environment to his advantage then moves back in time in the past where he is in a special ops team serving in Africa on a plane to the mission area. Then as an element of surprise the plane gets hit by an anti-aircraft missile and is totaled, but as you all know there is always someone who could survive anything… and that where WOLVERINE comes in. The first time you see the screen you would probably wondering whats our hero doing in mid-air skydiving well to my surprise I get to control his free fall to the ground without parachute and dodging incoming missile at you. Then you crash land over a Machete soldier (an African-rebel soldier, that’s what it suppose to mean) then you are to begin the game with your furious vengeance to find your place as the ever bad animal Wolverine.

The story is wonderful. Set in two different time lines its keep you gripping to the game even longer and it slightly differs from the movie in someplace, but I am not gonna spell out the rest of the story in detail. The character introduction goes in such a way that every time you complete a mission which is taking down a boss, or solving a puzzle or two along with kicking the butt of some villains you get a cut-scene showing the Wolverines motives and objectives along with certain twists and new character introduction who would take you to the time line with the words in the present like “Don`t you remember what happened in Africa???” and then you are back in the past left with the same spot or position in the level or checkpoint you cleared the time before you started out with the previous mission.

Four thing I love about the game play

1.You get to do some grueling action combos

2.Solve some tedious puzzle( which are not that tough!!! Trust me on this)

3.Level design

4.Navigating your way and finishing moves on the bosses

1.Action:

Its like working every second of the game, you get to use your lunge powers, the feral sense, the special powers like drilling the enemy, slicing them vertically and diagonally and using your ultimate power rage combat, but every thing has its price you need to earn it before you get to use it.

You need to collect XP or experiences through combo meter and finding hidden dog-tags through out the game and not to mention doing the mission objectives in precise and given methods( that you would love) and doing this action non-stop without you getting killed,only with some bruises( well they do heal quickly in real-time and also when you are near a big explosion or there is a guy with a shot-gun aiming right at you get to see your flesh thrown out and heal or form as you move around) and that’s something you love, getting hurt and watch healing… but you have to play a really big price.. I played the game in two systems. Mine with Ge force 8600 GT with 256 MB dedicated RAM showed only a little bit of that gruesome action but in my friend`s system with a 19 inch wide screen and a Ge force 9800 S Li and 1 GB dedicated RAM, it was totally awesome.

2.Puzzle:

The puzzles are quite simple for me. Its like finding ways to escape death traps and opening doors by finding hidden power-cells and accessing areas with visible elements around, that are either to be moved around or fixed in some places and finding ways to retrieve objects that are directly or indirectly in the range of threat by laser-beams and gigantic robots.

The major puzzle that I loved is the one where you need to find an exit out of an area with virtually nothing but your very own feral sense that would only guide you with rather a direct line of contact but no other clues, it took me nearly 5 minutes to figure that out.

3.Level design:

The location and the level design are sculpted to perfection. Both the African wildlife as well as numerous ruins and buildings on the game are wonderful. The best level is the one in the research facility where they would have taken away all your powers and you need to find ways to retrieve them one by one with a help of a friend( to be honest that’s the level, I took a long time to clear as I kept falling for the traps).

You get to use some major areas in to your advantage as there would be more than one villain at a time and you don`t need to worry about saving the game at times because it saves automatically in each checkpoint( its kind of useful in the sense that even when the game hangs for no reason, it did when I played some level with full graphics but not all, you can get back to last checkpoint in no time)

4.Navigation and Bosses:

What I love about this game is the location and navigation just like Elika`s magic orb navigation in Prince of Persia, there is feral sense to help you navigate and as well as finding objects to use around you in the area within range. There is also one lovable thing that I do love which is that you can fell like doing anything in the game like climbing tall towers, moving over rails, beams and ropes to swing from area to area and as well as climbing the walls along the tree roots and grilled meshes. You can even dodge, roll and dash… if you need to….

The bosses are perfected as said before and not that tough. Most are like trolls and huge mechanical robots. There is some level in which, requires you to take down some enemies by continual button presses like in God Of War. The best of them all is the one gigantic robot, the mark 1 Mutant killer (the one in the size of Megatron in Transformers movie) where you are to kill this guy( or should I say damage the circuits anyway!!!) by SKY DIVING and dodging the Debris or loose parts from the falling Robot as you sky dive and finish him off in the likes of the movie KUNG FU HUSTLE climax.

They have finished the game with nearly the same climax of the movie, but to quite an extent there is also a cut-scene showing him in way beyond the future where he is found in the city full of mark 1 mutant killer destroying the entire city and him in total control saying,

“I got the perfect weapon to finish anything” -----Claws out-----

Its without doubt that this is the best action game on store right now and with that critical acclaim it has found to be containing all the required elements for taking away your killer instinct to a long run and the unstoppable rage to be in full throttle for a minimum of 15-20 hours Game play in normal mode.

Being on the Right Track....

I always use to wonder this one thing in my life. what makes life so special in this world after all we are ought to be living here for just a few years in the history of the world and yet still we always think that it would never end.

Take for example, the emperors and Caesars that ruled the parts of the earth in various times and they all have one common goal in life as i would say... to live or to be remembered for eternity in this world... some achieve it altogether by scorching the backs of their peasants and sometimes building monuments for their fame which in some sense would take years to achieve like the great pyramids that were built with utmost care and perfection... it must also be mentioned that it was planned to be constructed slowly`cause it being a tomb to the dead king it needs to be ready only when he is dead.. and do you know that the pharaoh actually commissions the pyramids to be constructed on his prime time in the empire and would ask it to be completed only just before his demise to his subjects.

And it would go on and on and every time the pharaoh gets sick they would speed it up (i meant the construction) and when he is back to normal or beginning to be healthy in body... they would slow it down and this way they thought that the life expectancy of the king to be cherished with good health and would make him happy to feed the public with taxes and the allowances to the subjects..

Ahem!!! I am little bit off track.. so i meant to say that all men and even women live in this to achieve the greater good by living with GLORY in life as well as after-life.

Just think,there are countless ways that people try to achieve it some through science( like Albert Einstein who is renowned through out this world for his Theory of Relativity and his famous E=mC² and his tongue out photograph) and some through religion and politics and some trough power like all the dictators and ill minded colonists and fanatics who criss-crossed the planet.

Yet the scenario still lives.Even now. Why do you watch movies? to get inspired and taken away in doing something good or something crooked. and why is it that you study? not just because that your mother and father told you to do so.. just because to invest in knowledge to succeed in life later. some learn it and some bypass it to reach their goals quickly through experience and setbacks.

so my point is that everybody in this world believes that its going to happen.. your dream,your vision Blah,Blah,Blah.. whatever it maybe but everybody is missing the point its not you won`t succeed ever but just to say that it is alright to have a peaceful life with doing something that might contribute to the world as a whole but not just to you but everyone like you. think this there are billions and billions of stars and every star must have a solar system at least one out of a thousand must and think about it being colonized by Alien life-forms(definitely not like those that are modeled in Hollywood by ace directors like Spielberg).. even one day after many millions of years we would talk about the Gods, the emperors and the few good men to them( if they communicate, come on... can`t I be little comical or may be nerdy? as you might say.. He He!!) . but our life would be known only to a small number of people... your family... sometimes your people and yet they would forget it... make this as your underlying statement.... what have i done till now that is worthwhile to be talked about by the future generation?

I would say that those of you who read this and who have known this earlier.... i know that you haven`t done any think like that except to live up to the expectation of your kins....come on snap out of it!!! take risks after all you know time cannot be reversed.....think that you are the future. you could be the Pharaoh, the Scientist,the Religious Guru, even the President.

and remember if at all you think that you are the wisest prove it or spread it cause you won`t be there long enough to say this to the entire world cause you might die with no subjects to build a pyramid for you unless you got their minds, better to say captivate their mind.. the pyramid is the metaphor for your everlasting glory....