We’re seeing so much happening with the new Spider-Man game on PlayStation 4 that it’s overwhelming. Of course, considering the amount of effort that Insomniac Games is putting into the title, that shouldn’t be a big surprise.
And that got the team over at Ausgamers thinking…what if Microsoft was able to net its own superhero game for Xbox One owners to enjoy? It’s a novel idea, and Marvel would probably be all over it, provided that the right development team was involved with the game.
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The team noted in its statement, “For one: He’s green and Microsoft — for the Xbox brand — loves green. So there’s that. But there’s also this power they keep talking about under the hood of the Xbox One X, and Hulk is “the strongest one there is”, so you know, that also fits (and we’ll expand on that in a moment). The other factors, however, revolve around both timing and the knowledge that Marvel is simply steering clear of a new standalone Hulk movie, electing instead to just include him throughout The Avengers, and within Chris Hemsworth’s Thor cinematic world, as revealed gloriously in this trailer, and then more recently, this trailer from SDCC.
“So on that no solo movie front, he’s a perfect candidate for his own game. People want to play as the Hulk, fans are screaming out for some sort of Planet Hulk or World War Hulk expansion beyond the Funny Pages they read, and in games either — or both — would easily make sense. Then there’s that ‘power’ we’ve been talking about. Any Hulk game in in this day and age would need destructibility up the wazoo. It would need to be either open-world or, at the very least, sandbox,” the continued.
Technically, they’re not wrong. Incredible Hulk games have been mixed in the past, but, done the right way, an open-world Hulk title would be astounding. If you need to see further proof of this, check out a title called The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, produced by Radical Entertainment, the same team behind the Prototype games.
That game did very well on the PS2, Xbox and GameCube platforms, and presented a whirlwind of content, where Hulk could do everything from lob cars at helicopters to using a vehicle for boxing gloves and knocking enemies like Abomination into the middle of next week. We’ve included some gameplay below, so you can see just how much fun it is.
You can read more about the team wanting to see this game in action in this fully detailed report, but, yes, we are definitely on board for a Hulk game – provided they bring Mark Ruffalo along to do the voice. After all, he’s always angry.
Spider-Man releases in 2018 for PlayStation 4.
