The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction Review for the XBox, Playstation 2 (PS2) and the Gamecube

We have all played our share of bad super-herogame. This is the best Hulk game I've ever
games. Well, I want to start of by letting youplayed. It takes the best parts from last years
know that the Incredible Hulk: Ultimate DestructionHulk game, the Hulk, and just let loose. You start
is not one of those. In fact it is polished andoff with some basic moves, but you can upgrade
incredibly fun. There will be a ton of comparisonsthem throughout the game. After a couple hours
to the Grand Theft Auto franchise, but it wouldyou are pretty much the unstoppable force you
be more accurate to compare Ultimatewould expect the Incredible Hulk to be.
Destruction to the recent Spiderman games. InThe Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction is at its
this free roaming action smash-em-up, you playbest when your just doing your own thing
as the Incredible Hulk, and your job is to destroybetween missions. You feel like you are controlling
pretty much everything (hence the name Ultimatethe Hulk. You can jump over small buildings, and
Destruction).easily scale larger ones. You can swat helicopters
You are given free reign of various areas, theseout of the sky. And you can smash up various
are not based upon any actual cities likevehicles to make shields or metal gloves that give
Spiderman 2 or GTA: San Andreas, but the areasyou the extra power to smash those puny tanks
feel alive and real. Unfortunately the areas are ainto scrap metal. To be honest, I never got tired
little more limited than what you get in GTA: Sanof seeing how far I could throw the terrified
Andreas or Spiderman 2. But to make up for it,civilians.
just about everything is completely destructible. InSpeaking of the civilians, they act exactly as you
your battles with the Hulk-Busters, Police, and thewould expect them to act when they see a giant
Military you can literally level the city.green dude fall from the sky and smash a building
Before I go too much into how much I love thisto the ground; they run screaming in the opposite
game, I want to let you know about what'sdirection. You get a certain level of satisfaction
holding it back from reaching the ultimate heightsbeing a one man wrecking ball, and bringing a city
of excellence. Too start off I would have liked toto its knees. The kind of satisfaction you just
see more super-villains, but instead your primarywon't get from Spiderman 2 or any of the games
foes are the Hulk-Busters (for those not familiarin the GTA series.
with the story-arc from the 80's, their a taskNow the missions, as I already said, are mostly
force that uses exo-skeletons so they can go toedestroy this or protect that. But the boss battles
to toe with big 'ol green but), the military, and thehave that epic feel to them. I'm not going to give
Police. Also the missions can get a little repetitive.too much away, but going toe to toe with a giant
You mostly have you standard destroy this,Hulk-Buster was absolutely invigorating. It was also
protect that missions. But when it came down toone of those moments when there wasn't much
it, the world just didn't feel big enough by the endof a city left when you finally dispatch of the
of the game.monestrous mech.
Now as I previously stated; I really enjoyed this