Insomniac’s Wolverine will have a ‘Mature Tone’, but should it be an Open World Game ?

Insomniac’s Wolverine teaser trailer is all we have to refer to, however some interesting details have started to pop-up that shed light on Insomniac’s new superhero action game for the PlayStation 5.

One question that fans are most concerned about is, Would Insomniac’s Wolverine be a full fledged game like Marvel’s Spider-Man, or would it be a side story like Spider-Man Miles Morales? Brian Horton, who happens to be the creative director of the game addressed that concern in a short and to-the-point tweet.

“Full size, mature tone,” Horton replied.

With this short and brief note, Horton provided a small idea regarding Insomniac’s vision for Marvel’s Wolverine. Despite the fact, that Insomniac’s Wolverine is being developed along with Spider-Man 2, the game is being equally prioritized.

The mature tone statement keeps the hopes of the fans alive who expect Wolverine to be wild and gritty as people have known him for the longest time. Still, nothing can be confirmed or denied about the mature rating of the game.

One way or another, Insomniac has confirmed that Marvel’s Wolverine will be part of the studio’s burgeoning Marvel Gaming Universe, so it shouldn’t be too far off from Spider-Man’s tone. It will be interesting to see how the two compare whenever Wolverine is eventually released.

The sad part is that, the development of the game has just started, so you can expect the game not to be released next year but sometime during summer of 2023.

Should Insomniac’s Wolverine be an Open World Game ?

Sony has pretty much outshined every other developer in past decade with its narrative-driven adventures and open-world epics. Insomniac has used the same formula beautifully with its games like Marvel’s Spider-Man and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales. With their fantastic story-lines, gameplay and open world swinging, both spideys have garnered various accolades. But Does Insomniac’s Wolverine need to follow the same footsteps ?

When we think of Wolverine we don’t imagine a crusader or a savior in a bright suit roaming around in a city protecting people. We think of a man cursed with immortality, broken by years of hardship and forced to watch friends die as he does battle in countless wars just to survive and find his place in the world. He’s also a man with a biting personality, unafraid to murder those who do him wrong before throwing out a handful of swears along the way. He is a beast who shall give some serious damage if pressed at the wrong nerve. He has no rules. Spider-Man doesn’t kill, But Wolverine does.

Unlike other “SUPERHEROES”, Wolverine should be dark, vicious, wild, bloody and aware of how he has lead his life in order in this harsh and lethal world. The movie Logan was absolutely inspired by the gam The Last of Us. Now the makes of the game Wolverine can take inspiration from the movie Logan and instead presenting the character as a lovable and won’t kill the innocent kind of person, just let him be the anti-hero he is.

I’d love a relatively linear action game with combat that feels heavy and deliberate. Wolverine’s claws are capable of slicing through metal, so in practice they’d turn flesh into ribbons, tearing limbs away from enemies and leaving them to bleed out on the filthy path you walk. I’m talking ultraviolence, but with a reliance on blood and gore that is reinforced by how the character and his overarching story are depicted. A principal setting or hub area that Logan could explore to bond with an ensemble of characters that changes throughout the narrative would be excellent if executed correctly, taking the open-world template of Spider-Man and turning it into something more concentrated and refined, leaving no room for busywork that the average player might overlook. Don’t make the plot overbearingly miserable, but have it be melancholic enough that overcoming adversity feels rewarding, while Logan is perceived as a sympathetic anti-hero with a troubled past we want to delve into. If this game is set to tie into the existing Spider-Man universe, as in the games, perhaps the tone will need to be more uniform, but I sincerely hope Insomniac is able to experiment.

As mentioned before, Wolverine is still in the primitive stages of development, and will likely be coming out only some time after Spider-Man 2 in 2023. If we become slightly more optimistic then we expect the game to release in mid 2023.