So Roll on another summer blockbuster licensed game. Although Hulk comes with the anomaly of being released before the film. Developer Radical must have received a hefty bonus for getting it done in time; but then it's not as if they broke their backs on this one. After my last encounter with comic book hero, the talentless act of vandalism that was Wolverine's Revenge, Hulk comes across as a highly-polished title. But the truth is that this is a very simple and repetitive action game.
The Hulk has never been about brains, but even for a smash 'em up game, what passes as a plot is almost insulting. 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.
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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. 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.
For all the lack of depth in the gameplay, there is something undoubtedly cool about controlling this huge beast. 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.
But it gets boring very quickly, partly because the enemies hardly change at all, and partly because the plain cardboard box environments make it less thrilling to demolish everything in sight.
Then there are the two problems that seem to hound every console game slapped on to a PC. First, the camera rarely points in the direction you want it to and, though you can see things through a useless first-person perspective, you have no control over the third-person view. Secondly, you shouldn't even consider playing this unless you have a decent joypad. There's no mouse support and trying to control the Hulk with a keyboard is a waste of time. But then, it's not as if they needed a quality game to shift copies.
Requirements are :
- OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista.
- Processor: Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.0 GHz / AMD Athlon XP 2000+
- Memory: 512 MB.
- Hard Drive: 1.8 GB free.
- Video Memory: 128 MB.
- Video Card: nVidia GeForce FX 5600 / ATI Radeon 9600.
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible.
- DirectX: 9.0c.
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