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On Tuesday, Sony will release Marvel's Wolverine - the biggest game exclusive to the PlayStation 5 this year
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It's made by Insomniac, the studio responsible for the recent Spider-Man titles, which have sold 50 million copies in recent years.
Key facts
- And to that point
- when Hugh Jackman's famous take on the character last appeared on the big screen in 2024's Deadpool & Wolverine, it made $205m (then £160m) on opening weekend in the US
- the best
- On Tuesday, Sony will release Marvel's Wolverine
- the biggest game exclusive to the PlayStation 5 this year
- When Spider-Man released in 2018, it set a new standard for superhero games with an open-world New York City which you could freely (and entertainingly) explore by web-slinging through the skies
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Summary
On Tuesday, Sony will release Marvel's Wolverine - the biggest game exclusive to the PlayStation 5 this year. But unlike the friendly neighbourhood superhero, Wolverine has a Pegi-18 rating in the UK, meaning a child cannot legally buy the game, and it contains considerable levels of blood, gore and violence. It represents a gamble for the studio responsible for some of Sony's biggest hits - will it turn out to have been worth it? This review does not reveal the game's biggest moments, but beware minor spoilers for some of the characters that appear and a few early sequences.