‘Wolverine’ Game Developers Break Down New Footage, X-Men Cameos, ‘Low-Gore’ Option, Claw Combat and How Logan Can Die - Variety

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‘Wolverine’ Game Developers Break Down New Footage, X-Men Cameos, ‘Low-Gore’ Option, Claw Combat and How Logan Can Die

If there’s one key thing that PlayStation ‘s Insomniac Games wants you to take away from the new gameplay footage for its upcoming “Marvel’s Wolverine,” it’s that this video game will be as bloody as promised.

“It’s planting our flag that this is a mature game,” Insomniac Games' creative director Marcus Smith told Variety. “There was a lot of speculation about, especially Insomniac creating this game, were we going to be able to create that visceral high action that one would expect from a Wolverine game? And the answer is, yeah, absolutely, we’ve done that. We also are creating a storyline that is equally mature, that has more depth and ambiguity and deepness to go along with that. And then I would just throw out that we also understand that some people are squeamish when it comes to blood, and we do have an accessibility option to turn it off and do low-gore paths.”

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Developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment's Insomniac Games in partnership with Marvel Games, "Marvel's Wolverine" will launch Sept. 15 exclusively for the PlayStation 5. The game is described as delivering “the ultimate Wolverine fantasy, with fast, fluid, and ferocious combat; exhilarating, action-packed set pieces, and a gripping story that taps into the core tenets of one of the most compelling comic book characters of all-time."

“Wolverine” game director Mike Daly knows Insomniac “packed a lot into that seven minutes” of new footage unveiled Tuesday during PlayStation’s “State of Play” presentation, which readers can view in the video below, so he has a few specifics he wants to point out in case you missed them.

“The things I’d call your attention to are that Logan can get around the world because he’s very strong, so his traversal abilities come into play,” Daly said. “Those blend smoothly into using his enhanced senses to detect enemies and scout them, so that he can opt to sneak into areas and take enemies out with stealth. And all that culminates in the claw combat, which is really the main gameplay aspect that we put the top priority on.”

Daly says that within Logan’s claw combat he will have “a very wide variety of moves.”

“He has explosive special moves that you’ll need to time just right to get the most out of,” the “Marvel’s Wolverine” game director said. “He has the ability to break down enemies’ defenses, to take advantage of environment opportunities, and work together with Jean to take out enemies faster. So all of those elements were derived from what are Logan’s special qualities and abilities? How do we bring those to life and combine them all to give you this player experience that makes you feel like Wolverine, while giving you a lot of options and variety and strategic choices to make, so that the game stays deep throughout the entire playthrough.”

See below for more from Variety ‘s interview with Insomniac Games' creative director Marcus Smith and game director Mike Daly about “Marvel's Wolverine.”

Smith: You are not the only one who has seen that character in that shot and thought that. Luckily, when you’re playing the game, there’s a lot of setup before any of that, and there will not be that confusion. Not Deadpool, but we were trying to build the ultimate Wolverine experience, and part of that is he is surrounded by beloved Marvel characters all around. So we did see Jean Grey, we saw Sabretooth, we’ve seen Omega Red, we’ve seen Mystique. Those are a few of the faces we can let you in on, at least.