IGN Presents Top 10 Best Licensed Games - X-Men Origins: Wolverine Didn't Make the Cut, But There's a Good Reason
NewsSource: Activision
Boris PiletskiyTranslated with AI from the Russian original.
Steven Spielberg's "E.T." game adaptation was predictably named the worst.
Recently, IGN journalists decided to recall games that were created under licenses. The resulting list included a recent game from MachineGames studio, a Rockstar classic, several Star Wars projects, and more.
The resulting list of 10 games did not include X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but it was mentioned separately.
The journalists explained their decision by saying that the project is significantly better than the original work:
Sometimes we come across games that turn out to be even better than the movies they're based on. In fact, there are several such examples on our list: The Warriors, GoldenEye, and Escape from Butcher Bay could all claim that title. But there's one game that didn't make our top 10, but we still want to highlight: X-Men Origins: Wolverine from 2009. [...] it is in this project that the playable Wolverine turned out to be the best of all - at least until Insomniac's attempt to take that title in 2026. He jumps, slashes, and decapitates with the ferocity you'd want to see from a ferocious character with adamantium claws. The game is certainly not a masterpiece, but for a short time, before the Batman: Arkham series, it was the most interesting example of a superhero action game in a long time and ten times more fun than the movie it was based on.
Top 10 Best Licensed Games According to IGN:
- 10. Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
- 9. Scarface: The World is Yours
- 8. Rockstar's The Warriors
- 7. Mad Max
- 6. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
- 5. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- 4. GoldenEye 007
- 3. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
- 2. Alien Isolation
- 1. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
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