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Activision brings Marvel Comics’ trademark mutant mayhem to the latest generation of game platforms with X-Men: Wolverine’s Revenge.

X-Men: Wolverines Revenge

The new X-Men game is the latest battle royale addition to the growing ranks of comic book to video game conversions.

Activision, Inc. is giving gamers something to sink their claws into with the release of X-Men: Wolverine’s Revenge for the PlayStation2, Xbox and GameCube.

In this third-person action-adventure game, players take control of fan-favourite wolverine – the ultimate fighting mutant - to fight man and machine alike in an action-packed journey through the Marvel Universe.

Comic Books

"After more than 300 comic books, an animated series and most recently a blockbuster feature film featuring the X-Men, Wolverine is the one character that grips the public’s attention more than any of the other X-Men," says Larry Goldberg, executive vice president at Activision Worldwide Studios. "X-Men: Wolverine’s Revenge allows you to play as wolverine, explore the enigmatic hero’s past and carve up a host of bad guys along the way."

Featuring an original storyline written exclusively for Activision by comics’ industry legend Larry Hama, the game also features the voices of former Luke Skywalker himself - Mark Hamill - and Patrick Stewart.

World famous for his role as Captain Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and the forthcoming Star Trek: Nemesis feature film, Patrick Stewart here reprises his role as the enigmatic Professor-X from the X-Men movie.

In the game, Wolverine faces a race against time to find an antidote to the viral time bomb that’s just been discovered in his system. With only 48 hours to live, Wolverine returns to the clandestine Department H facility deep in the Canadian wilderness, to uncover the terrible secrets behind the Weapon X laboratory and the experiments that turned the mutant hero into a precision killing machine.

Unique Abilities

As with all mutants in the Marvel universe, wolverine has unique abilities that set him apart from the rest of humanity, and the game promises to showcase them all. Players will be able to use wolverine’s deadly claws to do battle, his animal-like super senses to track enemies, an enhanced mutant healing factor, his unbreakable bones to withstand devastating amounts of punishment, and superior strength and reflexes for that added edge in combat.

In X-Men: Wolverine’s Revenge players will have to master all of these skills in order to defeat the sinister forces massing against them led by arch-villains Juggernaut, Wendigo, Magneto and Sabertooth. Luckily, players won’t have to face the onslaught alone and can expect occasional backup from fellow X-Men, including Professor-X and the Beast.

X-Men: Wolverine’s Revenge has been developed by U.K.-based developers in the North-West of England. This latest comic book to game conversion looks like being just the next foray into the world of mixed media for Marvel Enterprises - with a library of over 4,700 proprietary characters, they are one of the world's most prominent character-based entertainment companies.

X-Men: Wolverine’s Revenge is out now for the PlayStation2, Xbox and GameCube. The game has been launched to coincide with the release of the new X-Men film, X-Men 2

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