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Marvel’s Wolverine on PS5 Nails the Character, Not Much Else | Preview
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Polygon has published a hands-on preview of Marvel's Wolverine, the PlayStation 5 game from Insomniac Games, based on a session with game director Mike Daly at PlayStation's London offices. The preview praises the studio's meticulous, character-first approach, judging Wolverine's look, movement, combat and characterisation to be note-perfect, while finding little else in the demo especially remarkable beyond this central achievement, including a "mildly clunky" boss fight against a robotic Sentinel.
The demo spanned the game's opening section and a portion from the end of its first act, set before the formation of the X-Men so the story can focus solely on Logan. It features Wolverine working alongside Sabertooth and Mystique in the mutant team Team X, led by Nathaniel Essex (voiced by Troy Baker), on a mission to rescue Essex from tech magnate Bolivar Trask, inventor of the Sentinels. Later sections bring in a Sentinel confrontation, downtime with Jean Grey and other mutants in Madripoor's Lowtown district, and a kidnapping that puts Wolverine on the trail of the ninja group the Hand.
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In short
- Polygon previews Insomniac's Marvel's Wolverine for PS5.
- Character detail and combat praised as note-perfect; little else stands out.
- Story set pre-X-Men, featuring Team X, Sabertooth, Mystique and Jean Grey.
How this story developed
- 3 months ago Polygon has published a hands-on preview of Marvel's Wolverine, the PS5 game from Insomniac Games, following a session with game director Mike Daly at PlayStation's London offices.
- 3 months ago Polygon has published a hands-on preview of Marvel's Wolverine, the PlayStation 5 game from Insomniac Games, based on a session with game director Mike Daly at PlayStation's London offices.
Explained simply
Marvel's Wolverine is an upcoming PS5 game from Insomniac Games, the studio behind the Spider-Man series, built around Marvel's clawed mutant antihero, Logan. It is being developed as part of a wider shared Marvel universe that Insomniac is creating on PlayStation, and could eventually lead into a separate X-Men game. The story is set before the X-Men team existed, allowing the game to focus entirely on Wolverine himself rather than a larger ensemble cast.
In the game, Wolverine is part of a covert mutant unit called Team X, working alongside fellow mutants Sabertooth and Mystique under a leader named Nathaniel Essex, voiced by actor Troy Baker. The plot involves rescuing Essex from a wealthy businessman, Bolivar Trask, and later brings in other X-Men characters such as Jean Grey, plus a robotic threat known as a Sentinel and the secretive ninja organisation the Hand.
This coverage is a preview, meaning a journalist was given early hands-on access to an unfinished version of the game ahead of its full release, rather than a review of the finished product. Previews like this help set early expectations for how a highly anticipated game is shaping up, based on impressions of specific demo sections rather than the complete experience.
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