Deadpool Reveiw

Okay, so Deadpool is out and my feelings on it are mixed. It's a workable hack and slash game with nice visuals and solid voice acting. It's a little short and the difficulty ramps up to unbalanced levels later in the game that make it imperative to buy all the upgrades for weapons and the Merc with the Mouth as well.

Deadpool at it's core it a hilarious romp through the fictional island of Genosha that fans will recognize from comics. You blast and slice your way through foes with the occasional on rails shooting segments, puzzles and platforming sprinkled in. Deadpool controls well enough to solves said puzzles and I never had much trouble navigating platforming sections when I had to. Not to say there isn't some bad level design that leads to a little run around before finding the proper path. With this said the meager eight levels run long and have enough variety to keep from getting stale but not enough oomph to make it great.

The controls work well enough and I feel High Moon should have spent a little more time with combat and the flow of the players movements. Everything feels a little stiff and it lacks the polish expected in the genre. There is a hesitancy between moves and combos that leave you open for cheap shots and even cheaper deaths. This doesn't break the game though, when you take out a room of baddies without dying and pull off some sweet combos if leaves you feeling like a bad ass and ready for the next melee. Switching between weapons is done using the D-pad. Left is melee weapons, right swaps guns and down will cycle through thrown weapons. With three melee weapons, four different guns and four thrown weapons the D-pad approach only adds to the frustrations sometimes encountered with the controls. Also the environment is sometimes claustrophobic and leads to camera problems, but you can freely move the camera with the right stick so it's not too bad. The most mind boggling thing about this game is thus: Deadpool has a healing factor that allows him to live through anything. So he can be burned, bashed, zapped, powerbombed, stabbed and withstand a host of super powers during combat with out the player dying. But find yourself surrounded by four bad guys with rifles and you will be ripped to shreds in seconds. I is paramount to use your stun grenades when surrounded by these wimpy troops with just plan old guns. 

The real ticket seller for Deadpool is the humor and gory visuals we would expect from the assassin's own game. The humor runs the gauntlet from crude, satire, parody, toilet and sexual. There is something funny for everyone. The game also takes shots at other games ranging from Call of Duty to Super Mario Brothers. Deadpool breaks the fourth wall to the point that the game is being made as you play it and he "changes" things in the script if he doesn't like it. I would recommend this game to any one just for the laughs and some of the crazy antics alone, like when you get to slap Wolverine senseless over and over. I was really surprised at the usage of the F-word through out the game. It's everywhere and this title earned every bit of it's mature rating. So parents, keep in mind when considering this for your child, I was a little taken aback when a thirteen year old on my friends list was playing the game.

Deadpool by all means is not a bad game. I liked it more than X-men Origins" Wolverine, but it's combat was not as fluid as that title. If High Moon keeps it up and polishes a hopeful sequel, we could have a great Deadpool game that doesn't fall short of the bar.

I give this a 7.75 out of 10. If you are a fan of Deadpool, X-men or just Marvel in general I recommend this title. If you love hack and slash games and are not a big fan, you may feel a little let down.

Happy gaming my friends!