Marvel’s Wolverine is my game of the year and I don’t care who knows it – Reader’s Feature

Despite a mixed reception critically, and amongst fans, a reader insists that Marvel’s Wolverine is the best new game he’s played in 2026, in terms of both story and gameplay.

I saw this week that Marvel’s Wolverine was confirmed not to be a flop and had in fact sold almost 2 million copies in just three days. I am very glad, because not only have I really enjoyed the game but I have been upset to see it turned into a punching bag over the last month or so, with all sorts of complaints aimed at it that are just as true for almost any other big budget game, including all of developer Insomniac’s previous games.

It all seems to have got mixed up with the well-deserved hate over Sony’s no disc policy and some poorly chosen gameplay clips that made it look like a barely interactive showreel, where you just press ‘A’ to win. But it’s not like that at all. It’s not Devil May Cry either but believe it or not some people don’t enjoy learning long combos or having to take a night course in the game’s combat before being any good at it.

But once the internet sees blood in the water that’s the end of it and somehow everyone has very strong opinions about a game that’s not even out yet and which afterwards earned a Metacritic of 76 (I just went and checked and apparently the Deadpool & Wolverine movie that everyone claims to love got 56).

I don’t buy a lot of new games every year. They’re expensive and I haven’t got time to play most of them, but I’m a fan of Wolverine and I like the two Spider-Man games that Insomniac made. So I was pretty much sold the minute they announced the game.

Of course, I was disappointed when the previews came out but when all the memes and unfair complaints started I realised it was getting out of hand. And then, when I bought the game and played it, I didn’t agree with them at all. The combat is definitely not complicated but it’s not easy or especially repetitive either. There are plenty of different enemy types and I felt that I was always under threat and had to really think about what I was doing or I’d get overwhelmed.

Now, the boss battles have got a lot of complaints but I would say, as GC point out in their review, that it’s only the first two that are bad and while I won’t defend them there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the other ones. In fact, I’d say the last few are really good, with a neat multi-stage finale that brings everything together.

I also liked the nightmare doors, especially the survival challenges, which I found very difficult but enjoyed beating and getting the highest score on. There’s lots of good unlockables too, in terms of skins and the extra abilities and moves, which I’d argue add a lot to the combat. Including the extra ones you get after beating the game.

If that was all the game was though, I admit the game would seem a bit empty. But it’s not. The story and characters are a huge part of the whole experience, and I think they work great. In fact, I’d say that the story was a lot better than Spider-Man 1 and 2, which were kind of all over the place and hand the problem that Peter and Miles weren’t really conflicted about anything, except for the 10 minutes Peter was wearing the black suit.

In Wolverine everyone is a lot more complicated and the majority of characters are what most people know as villains. I thought Mystique was great in particular, far better than the movies and with a great ending that suited what she had done in the game.

The best character though is Jean Grey who is also done much better than the movies and the relationship between her and Wolverine is done really well. It is a love story but it’s not an easy relationship and you’re kept guessing how it will turn out for the whole game. I really liked it and it felt real to me, even though they’re crazy superhero characters.

It’s definitely the best new game I’ve bought this year, but I admit I haven’t bought that many, so I guess I’m not the best judge of that. But it’s what I’ve played and enjoyed and the reputation it’s earned seems very unfair to me. I hope it doesn’t stop the chances of a sequel.

By reader Kubrick

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