From the developers of Mario is Missing!, Hulk, based on the 2003 film, is a frustrating beat-em-up/stealth game in which...well, I don't actually know. I wasn't paying attention.
There's two types of levels, beat-em-up levels where you play as the Hulk, and stealth levels where you play as Bruce.
The Hulk beat-em-up levels are fine, although some mechanics are made incredibly difficult to pull off - like you have to throw objects in order to switch off a shield but you can't throw objects because other enemies can hit you and make you drop objects.
Plus, the game gives you a choice to "fight or flee" but throws a ton of enemies in front of you that will kill you if you try to flee so there's not much choice..
The Hulk in the movie doesn't even kill people. He actively tries not to.
Bruce's stealth levels suck but that's because I hate stealth levels.
Even though you're given a fight button to beat up enemies if you're caught it doesn't do anything because enemies will move away from you as you walk towards them and then punt you as soon as you try to land a punch. And that's if you're invincible.
The game suffered from the same issue I had with my Knight Rider games in that something I have to do to proceed is broken.
The walkthrough says I have to jump as Bruce during the stealth section but there's no jump button. I hit every button, and restarted the level.
Nothing.
I wanted to finish this game but I can't, I really can't.
Disappointing.
And I'm pissed off.
There's two types of levels, beat-em-up levels where you play as the Hulk, and stealth levels where you play as Bruce.
The Hulk beat-em-up levels are fine, although some mechanics are made incredibly difficult to pull off - like you have to throw objects in order to switch off a shield but you can't throw objects because other enemies can hit you and make you drop objects.
Plus, the game gives you a choice to "fight or flee" but throws a ton of enemies in front of you that will kill you if you try to flee so there's not much choice..
The Hulk in the movie doesn't even kill people. He actively tries not to.
Bruce's stealth levels suck but that's because I hate stealth levels.
Even though you're given a fight button to beat up enemies if you're caught it doesn't do anything because enemies will move away from you as you walk towards them and then punt you as soon as you try to land a punch. And that's if you're invincible.
The game suffered from the same issue I had with my Knight Rider games in that something I have to do to proceed is broken.
The walkthrough says I have to jump as Bruce during the stealth section but there's no jump button. I hit every button, and restarted the level.
Nothing.
I wanted to finish this game but I can't, I really can't.
Disappointing.
And I'm pissed off.
n lembro nada
I remember it being really fun but at the same time very repetitive. Also the enemies don't really offer a danger to Hulk so you never fear that you could die.
Don't care what anybody says, Hulk for the PS2 was fire. Throwing innocent civilians with families to tend to into the ocean, watching them slowly drown, was a blast.
I give Hulk a strong 6!
I give Hulk a strong 6!
A cor desse hulk era muito estranha! Mas, o jogo tinha uma gameplay bem criativa e divertida. Na época, travei na parte de se infiltrar no laboratório, então ainda pretendo zerar.
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This review contains spoilers
Amazing game with a lot of childhood memories.
Hulk is a game that I played as a kid before I knew the lore, universe and context behind Marvel and his superheroes. For me, it was a completely original game in which a guy gets mixed with some sort of serum, turns into a big great tank and starts to smash stuff. It was an epic game back then and I still think it is an epic game today.
The game follows the original story of the Hulk, although set a few years after the original movie. You play as Bruce Banner, the original scientist and Hulk we know and love. In a freak accident in the lab, your DNA is altered in a way that you transform in a great green beast of a man whenever you are agitated. You are contacted by some guy called Doctor Crawford, who offers a cure to your condition by channeling your Hulk genes into a device called the Gamma Orb. You are guided towards Crawfords location, while avoiding the forces of John Ryker, a military commander who also seeks the orb. When arriving to Crawford’s lab, he betrays you and steals some of your green guy DNA and transforms himself into another Hulk like creature called Ravage.
You learn that your Arch Nemesis, “The Leader” is building an army of gamma-powered soldiers on the prison island of Alcatraz, aided by Ravage and the Orb he just filled up with your DNA. You need to infiltrate the island and locate the Orb. You also need to disable the gamma infiltration system, a device in place to detect spikes in gamma energy, something that will happen if you transform into the Hulk. If you trigger the system, a hostage will be killed. For this reason, you need to play as your fragile alter ego Bruce Banner. You successfully disable the gamma detection system, go full Hulk Smash again, whoop Leader’s brother, Madman and rescue the princ….. I mean hostage. You are captured, rescued by your buddy Ross and escape Alcatraz. You drop off Ross and the hostage, return to Alcatraz, confront Ravage, beat his ass, he becomes the good guy, helps you reach the Leader, you fight Madman once more and then confront Leader. Your powers are taken away, but you refuse to let the Leader abuse the Orb and its power, take it back, go full smash smash again, beat Leader and escape the facility.
The game is a mix between stealth sections, in which your goal is to silently reach your goal, while avoiding combat, and Hulk smash sections in which you progress to your goal by pure force and strength. The principle is much the same for every level, making it somewhat repetitive.
You got a variety of combos and attacks, that where impressive and fun to look at back then and are still today. You collect red orbs to increase your rage meter and when full, you enter Hulk apesh!t mode, in which you deal a lot more damage, are much faster and simply destroy everything around you. So epic. Meanwhile, while playing as Bruce, you can really feel the helplessness, and caution is the only way to go. The controls for the combo’s are easy to understand and work fluently.
I actually discovered all the stuff Hulk could do by accident and was surprised when I saw him made an O with his arms and released a massive ground pound when pressing some buttons.
The game looks beautiful. The art style, the details on the characters, the environment, the animations and shiny effects, it is all very good. Back then, I thought this was one of the best-looking games that I played.
In terms of sound, the sound effect of the punches, gunshots from enemies, explosions and grunts are perfect. Hulk is a game with excellent sound design overall that really impressed me to this day.
Hulk is also a very hard game. It got no mercy and especially in your human form, you feel fragile and vulnerable. Combine this with the shooting and smashing super soldiers later in the game, and you are going to have a bad time. In the last stages, hordes of enemies come at you and although you are very good at smashing stuff, the combined forces of the normal soldiers and the mutants can be a real pain in the butt sometimes. The bosses are also very hard (and well designed) and as a kid, beating them felt like the greatest achievement of my life. Especially Ravage. His stage was hard because of the constant aid from super soldiers that stabbed me in the back while fighting.
In the end, Hulk is an excellent game with great combat mechanics, fluent controls, gorgeous graphics, perfect sound design and a solid story. It is one of the classics from my youth and I can pop this bad boy into my Retro Windows XP computer anytime.
Definitely recommend this underrated classic.
Hulk is a game that I played as a kid before I knew the lore, universe and context behind Marvel and his superheroes. For me, it was a completely original game in which a guy gets mixed with some sort of serum, turns into a big great tank and starts to smash stuff. It was an epic game back then and I still think it is an epic game today.
The game follows the original story of the Hulk, although set a few years after the original movie. You play as Bruce Banner, the original scientist and Hulk we know and love. In a freak accident in the lab, your DNA is altered in a way that you transform in a great green beast of a man whenever you are agitated. You are contacted by some guy called Doctor Crawford, who offers a cure to your condition by channeling your Hulk genes into a device called the Gamma Orb. You are guided towards Crawfords location, while avoiding the forces of John Ryker, a military commander who also seeks the orb. When arriving to Crawford’s lab, he betrays you and steals some of your green guy DNA and transforms himself into another Hulk like creature called Ravage.
You learn that your Arch Nemesis, “The Leader” is building an army of gamma-powered soldiers on the prison island of Alcatraz, aided by Ravage and the Orb he just filled up with your DNA. You need to infiltrate the island and locate the Orb. You also need to disable the gamma infiltration system, a device in place to detect spikes in gamma energy, something that will happen if you transform into the Hulk. If you trigger the system, a hostage will be killed. For this reason, you need to play as your fragile alter ego Bruce Banner. You successfully disable the gamma detection system, go full Hulk Smash again, whoop Leader’s brother, Madman and rescue the princ….. I mean hostage. You are captured, rescued by your buddy Ross and escape Alcatraz. You drop off Ross and the hostage, return to Alcatraz, confront Ravage, beat his ass, he becomes the good guy, helps you reach the Leader, you fight Madman once more and then confront Leader. Your powers are taken away, but you refuse to let the Leader abuse the Orb and its power, take it back, go full smash smash again, beat Leader and escape the facility.
The game is a mix between stealth sections, in which your goal is to silently reach your goal, while avoiding combat, and Hulk smash sections in which you progress to your goal by pure force and strength. The principle is much the same for every level, making it somewhat repetitive.
You got a variety of combos and attacks, that where impressive and fun to look at back then and are still today. You collect red orbs to increase your rage meter and when full, you enter Hulk apesh!t mode, in which you deal a lot more damage, are much faster and simply destroy everything around you. So epic. Meanwhile, while playing as Bruce, you can really feel the helplessness, and caution is the only way to go. The controls for the combo’s are easy to understand and work fluently.
I actually discovered all the stuff Hulk could do by accident and was surprised when I saw him made an O with his arms and released a massive ground pound when pressing some buttons.
The game looks beautiful. The art style, the details on the characters, the environment, the animations and shiny effects, it is all very good. Back then, I thought this was one of the best-looking games that I played.
In terms of sound, the sound effect of the punches, gunshots from enemies, explosions and grunts are perfect. Hulk is a game with excellent sound design overall that really impressed me to this day.
Hulk is also a very hard game. It got no mercy and especially in your human form, you feel fragile and vulnerable. Combine this with the shooting and smashing super soldiers later in the game, and you are going to have a bad time. In the last stages, hordes of enemies come at you and although you are very good at smashing stuff, the combined forces of the normal soldiers and the mutants can be a real pain in the butt sometimes. The bosses are also very hard (and well designed) and as a kid, beating them felt like the greatest achievement of my life. Especially Ravage. His stage was hard because of the constant aid from super soldiers that stabbed me in the back while fighting.
In the end, Hulk is an excellent game with great combat mechanics, fluent controls, gorgeous graphics, perfect sound design and a solid story. It is one of the classics from my youth and I can pop this bad boy into my Retro Windows XP computer anytime.
Definitely recommend this underrated classic.
I got stuck
Só desisti porque o jogo simplesmente bugou em uma missão, não me deixando concluí-la. Senão, eu me torturava até o final do jogo.
Terrible, controls are dogshit, the camera is mess, movement is floaty. There is no block button or dodge button, the combo menu is missing - I had to look those up on my own - and the enemies were OP as hell.
HULK SMASH !!! The best Hulk game with super combat and bosses.
The portions where you play as the Hulk are fun for a bit, but forced stealth sections are the worst.
esse jogo tem mais destruição que muito jogo moderno
Cured my autism
It's good
Геймплей за Халка простенький тупо бегаешь по коридорам и пиздишь врагов на похуй, боёвка простенькая никакой прокачки нет, все комбо и спец удары доступны с самого начала, прикольно разнообразили игру стелс уровнями за Брюса Беннера, еще мне понравились прикольные босс файты где надо немного подумать прежде чем бить боссу ебало, сюжет тоже простенький типа Брюс Беннер ищет лекарство чтобы перестать быть Халком но все пошло по пизде
y'avait des Pitbull géants named Cupcake dans ce jeu ça me faisait flipper dans ma tendre jeunesse
Fun game, this was a game I couldn't get far in as a kid due to the puzzle in the first Banner level aand I kinda found it disapointing to play as Banner so soon after how satisfying it felt to play as Hulk. As a result I'd just play that first level over and over again to have fun until I got bored of it, so I still have fond memories of the game.
I like Hulk (2003) the movie, it's not the best and it's got some boring parts but it's definitely a well made movie with a lot of passion put into it...from a filmmaking standpoint, I'd say it's excellent...I suppose Ang Lee isn't famous for nothing...even if I'm not a huge fan, there's a lot of things I like about the movie as it's a good watch once in a long while....
Those feelings extend to the game too, well game is more fun cuz its fun to play as the Hulk lol but Banner segments are pretty alright too...but sadly this game has it's issues with the emulation, as lines longer than 10 seconds cut off (but you really miss nothing as all the story is in the FMVs and those aren't effected) buuut it also turns an autojump off in the second Banner level and...while this can happen on hardware too that fixes itself...here it doesn't sooooo I had to use a Level skip code and watch the level on YouTube...how fun...oh well, I'm not a huge fan of these and it don't seem like the best level ever anyway.
On PC port, this can be fixed by simply setting it to 60FPS tho as with many old PC ports, it can take some tinkering to run.
Game needs a widescreen exe if you wanna make it work that way....aand maybe make sure your drivers are updated cuz I got a friend who had an issue with that lol. PC Gaming Wiki is your friend.
I find it interesting that they put in Banner levels at all, it's a cool way to add variety....and might as well make use of that Eric Bana money, huh? lol
I also really appreciate they bothered to make this a sequel cuz let's face it...there's no way in hell we'd get anything even close to it if it wasn't literally made simultaneously alongside the movie with developers literally on the set.
Much like the movie, I can see a lot of passion went into this game...even if it falls short on some aspects, it's a fun that's worth remembering, as such the Ang Lee Hulk universe, is a flawed yet fun version to come back to every now and then....don't expect that Gamma Kingdom to be followed upon tho lol
I like that most bosses are Hulk-like and I really like Halflife lol, Nosferatu Valve name stealing fuck
FUCK THOSE STUNLOCKING ENEMIES THO god talk about bad design...I guess they put you in the non-existent shoes (or shorts?....ew) of the Hulk all the way, INCLUDING PISSING YOU OFF AT TIMES. Atleast you can easily counter the smurf fuckers with jump punching tho..I also dunno how to feel about the being able to run past everyone design in a Hulk game where you're supposed to beat 'em up...but hey it saves me a lot of headache so...thanks for that lol, I still played legitmately as much as I could tho
I'm glad to finally play this all the way and see what's it about...20 levels tho, this game is pretty short lol
I played this on Dolphin as no way I'm fucking with that PC port now...PCSX2 also seems to have lines cut off but far later? I didn't realize that difference but yeah...I have no clue how does Cxbx or Xemu fare with this game tho...I hope atleast the emulation issues get fixed someday...man....
Oh yeah, challenges are fun, I only cared to try Hulk Smash! but it was fun...I really like the inclusion of Gray Hulk lol, his lines are pretty cool
My first game of the year is a real Hulk-out! lol
I like Hulk (2003) the movie, it's not the best and it's got some boring parts but it's definitely a well made movie with a lot of passion put into it...from a filmmaking standpoint, I'd say it's excellent...I suppose Ang Lee isn't famous for nothing...even if I'm not a huge fan, there's a lot of things I like about the movie as it's a good watch once in a long while....
Those feelings extend to the game too, well game is more fun cuz its fun to play as the Hulk lol but Banner segments are pretty alright too...but sadly this game has it's issues with the emulation, as lines longer than 10 seconds cut off (but you really miss nothing as all the story is in the FMVs and those aren't effected) buuut it also turns an autojump off in the second Banner level and...while this can happen on hardware too that fixes itself...here it doesn't sooooo I had to use a Level skip code and watch the level on YouTube...how fun...oh well, I'm not a huge fan of these and it don't seem like the best level ever anyway.
On PC port, this can be fixed by simply setting it to 60FPS tho as with many old PC ports, it can take some tinkering to run.
Game needs a widescreen exe if you wanna make it work that way....aand maybe make sure your drivers are updated cuz I got a friend who had an issue with that lol. PC Gaming Wiki is your friend.
I find it interesting that they put in Banner levels at all, it's a cool way to add variety....and might as well make use of that Eric Bana money, huh? lol
I also really appreciate they bothered to make this a sequel cuz let's face it...there's no way in hell we'd get anything even close to it if it wasn't literally made simultaneously alongside the movie with developers literally on the set.
Much like the movie, I can see a lot of passion went into this game...even if it falls short on some aspects, it's a fun that's worth remembering, as such the Ang Lee Hulk universe, is a flawed yet fun version to come back to every now and then....don't expect that Gamma Kingdom to be followed upon tho lol
I like that most bosses are Hulk-like and I really like Halflife lol, Nosferatu Valve name stealing fuck
FUCK THOSE STUNLOCKING ENEMIES THO god talk about bad design...I guess they put you in the non-existent shoes (or shorts?....ew) of the Hulk all the way, INCLUDING PISSING YOU OFF AT TIMES. Atleast you can easily counter the smurf fuckers with jump punching tho..I also dunno how to feel about the being able to run past everyone design in a Hulk game where you're supposed to beat 'em up...but hey it saves me a lot of headache so...thanks for that lol, I still played legitmately as much as I could tho
I'm glad to finally play this all the way and see what's it about...20 levels tho, this game is pretty short lol
I played this on Dolphin as no way I'm fucking with that PC port now...PCSX2 also seems to have lines cut off but far later? I didn't realize that difference but yeah...I have no clue how does Cxbx or Xemu fare with this game tho...I hope atleast the emulation issues get fixed someday...man....
Oh yeah, challenges are fun, I only cared to try Hulk Smash! but it was fun...I really like the inclusion of Gray Hulk lol, his lines are pretty cool
My first game of the year is a real Hulk-out! lol
I feel like making a game based off a Hulk movie where one of the big set pieces is fighting some dogs is a bad choice
Core memory
Fun