Games on a Budget!
In my games on a budget series I will describe to you cheap, older
games that are tons of fun for not a ton of cash. The first game I’m
gonna cover in this series is truly one of my favorite games of all
time.
Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
The story of this little ditty is loosely based on the ill-fated Ang Lee
hulk movie from a few years back. By loosely based, I mean really
loosely based. But who cares about the plot, right? The main appeal of
playing the Hulk is smashing things.
Hulk gets a huge number of unlockable abilities, which are acquired
through the cleverly crafted upgrade system where you gain points for
every single thing you smash. As Hulk’s power grows, so do your options
for fun. You can do everything from running up buildings to hang gliding
using gorilla balloons to flattening out busses into skateboards and
skating around town. You can throw giant hamburgers at enemies, spin
tanks around ala Mario vs. Bowser in Mario 64, you can piledrive robots
off of skyscrapers and, best of all, you can punch cows.
The missions for the game are surprisingly fun. They’re not all amazing,
but they’re interesting enough to keep you going, and a few are genuine
gems. For example, in one mission you have to steal a cargo jeep, and
smash yourself inside of it and sneak inside an army building pretending
to be a regular jeep. The idea that no one sees your little Hulk feeties
sticking out from under the thing is just hysterical to me.
Not really into completing all the story missions? Don’t worry about it,
I myself have spent upwards of fifty hours screwing around in the game
and I’ve never felt the need to beat it. You can have all of Hulk’s
abilities with only about 70% of the story missions completed. Speaking
of missions, there’s an entire smorgasbord of strange side missions with
varied and often hilarious mission objectives. You have side missions
where you have to catch a certain number of missiles and throw them back
at your attackers, and you have missions where you have to punt SUVs
through goalposts.
All in all, it is all good. Seriously, I can’t recommend this game
strongly enough. I have spent countless hours blowing off steam by
playing this game, because let me tell you, few things are as satisfying
as leveling a city block with the power of your fists.
Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction is a great game, available for
the gamecube, X-box, and Playstation 2 for super cheap. There are a few
listed on Amazon.com at the time of this article that are available for
approximately $5.
So do yourself a favor and pick up this cheap on cost, rich on fun
game.
On a side note – Do not pick up the Hulk game based
on the recent Edward Norton flick, available for the current gen
systems. This other Hulk game is a soulless clone of the original. It’s
like a zombie of Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. Yeah it looks kinda like it
did when it was alive, but it doesn’t really move like the original and
it sure as hell doesn’t act like it. This new Hulk game is horrible.
Save your time and money and have more fun playing the original.
Alex out.
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