They're so infuriatingly cheap, you'll want to Hulk-smash your controller. The boss battles, too, seem to borrow a page from the messy showdowns that spoiled X2: Wolverine's Revenge (EGMU168). And avoiding detection is a crapshoot-I've been spotted from 20 yards by guards with their backs turned, but strolled right under others' noses. Banner's game of hide-and-seek will bore you.
If you've crept across compounds as Solid Snake or Sam Fisher, Dr. Sadly, when the Hulk transforms back into mild-mannered Bruce Banner, the game takes a turn for the insipid.
Such features aren't exactly awe-inspiring, but they keep the Green Goliath's rampage fast-paced and satisfyingly furious. Furthermore, you're rarely forced to fight every lackey who irritates you, and by ignoring them, you'll reach your objectives faster (not that some of you won't want to pulverize the saps). And considering the game might've sold well even if punching were the extent of its pissed-off protagonist's talents, being able to toss oil tankers through research center walls is a welcome break. Every completely interactive smash-em-up level is packed with cars, pipes, and concrete slabs you can use to carve swaths of carnage through General Ryker's cronies. The Hulk does a marvelous job capturing this dark hero's destructive essence. You can pick up cars and throw them at helicopters, smash the ground to cause shockwaves, throw people across the room, jump high in the air and send out beams of gamma radiation.īut it gets boring very quickly, partly because theĮnemies hardly change at all, and partly because the plain cardboard box environments make it less thrilling to demolish everything in sight. Sadly, these sections are so signposted they feel like tutorials: hiding places, levers and computer terminals are highlighted with big green arrows, just in case you're too stupid to figure out what to do.įor all the lack of depth in the gameplay, there is something undoubtedly cool about controlling this huge beast. The few moments you don't spend pounding them to a pulp are when you control Bruce in a stealthy, sub-Metal Gear mode, that is just too dull to work. You start off being attacked by the army in the middle of the desert, then as Bruce Banner you break into a research lab, see another scientist get hulked up with gamma rays and then spend the rest of the game chasing him and swatting soldiers left, right and centre. The Hulk has never been about brains, but even for a smash 'em up game, what passes as a plot is almost insulting.
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