The Incredible Hulk [Wii]

The bad news for Wii owners is that Edge of Reality perhaps bit off more than it could chew. EOR tried to take the exact same design as on PS3/360 and cram it into the Wii. The result is a New York covered in a blue cloud. Climb to the top of the Empire State Building and you see nothing but a haze below you. While you can destroy every building you see, it isn't all that impressive. SEGA would have been better served to craft a game specifically for the Wii rather than trying to scale down the PS3/360 version.

The same can be said of the controls. Rather than making use of the Wii remote, Hulk tosses moves onto buttons and hopes it all works. Camera control requires you to hit the minus button, then aim the remote around the screen all while getting your head pounded in by enemies. Block requires holding down two buttons, grabbing and climbing buildings is on the d-pad and targeting enemies on the c-button only works correctly half the time.

Incredible Hulk is a pretty meaty game. There's actually a lot to do -- from hunting down 200 power-ups in the city to dozens of mini-game challenges. The main campaign can take anywhere from 7-10 hours depending on how much time you spend cruising New York. The missions are mostly fetch and protection quests. Fortunately those Hulk is protecting are impervious to his attacks. That is with the exception of one of the final missions, in which a building you need to protect takes damage from the shockwaves of your attacks. Aside from this poorly conceived mission, there's really nothing frustrating about any of the tasks. They just get a little stale after a while. I will warn that I hit a few mission-killing bugs when the game failed to recognize Hulk had defeated all enemies on screen.

If you're looking for a visual or aural powerhouse, keep on walking. Hulk does feature a full city of destructible buildings, but the city is fairly bland in its appearance. And there are only a handful of enemies, which gets old pretty fast. And on Wii, the streets are mostly bare. Though the movie cast provides voice over work, this is the definition of phoning it in. It's clear that little attention was paid to the audio as you can clearly hear when some of the music loops.

Closing Comments
The Incredible Hulk is pretty much a straight sequel to Ultimate Destruction. Trouble is, Edge of Reality took out far more than it added. Though Hulk is a serviceable game that can be enjoyed over a weekend, it feels outdated. If you are a die-hard Hulk fan or the type who loves destroying treasured landmarks, then The Incredible Hulk is at least worth a rental.

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