# Wolverine game fails to match Spider-Man despite compelling Logan characterisation

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/marvels-wolverine-review-a-gloriously-conflicted-lead-is-let-down-by-crude-boring-battling/
- Published: 2026-09-10T15:00:40+00:00
- Updated: 2026-09-10T15:36:31+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/sep/10/marvels-wolverine-review-a-gloriously-conflicted-lead-is-let-down-by-crude-boring-battling
- Topics: Art, Culture, Entertainment, Gaming, Marvel's Wolverine, Technology

## Key points

- Marvel's Wolverine follows Insomniac's Spider-Man games on PS5
- Strong lead character but repetitive, uncreative combat criticised
- World is far more linear and restrictive than Spider-Man titles

## Summary

Insomniac Games follows up its acclaimed Spider-Man trilogy with Marvel's Wolverine, a PlayStation 5 action adventure that gives players a well-realised, conflicted Logan but ultimately disappoints with repetitive, unimaginative combat. The review argues the game struggles to live up to its predecessor, offering a strong protagonist and intriguing X-Men-adjacent setup let down by combat that feels crude and a linear, restrictive world that lacks the freedom of Insomniac's open-city Spider-Man games.

Set before the founding of the X-Men, the story sees Logan reunited with Sabretooth and Mystique after their mentor Nathaniel Essex is kidnapped by mutant-hating billionaire Bolivar Trask. Combat features dodges, parries and combo attacks such as the barrage, tornado spin and spiral strike, plus a three-stage rage meter, but the reviewer found most fights winnable through repetitive parry-and-attack patterns rather than the varied techniques demanded by genre peers like Devil May Cry and Bayonetta. The game's structure is also far more linear than the Spider-Man titles, with cities such as Madripoor and Tokyo blocked off by invisible walls that funnel players between set-pieces.

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