A Next-Gen Incredible Hulk Game Could Put Ultimate Destruction To Shame
Hulk: Ultimate Destruction has long been considered the gold standard when it comes to Hulk games, but Hulk is long overdue for a next-gen sequel. While the Hulk has been playable in a number of recent Marvel games, including Marvel's Avengers and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, the alter-ego of Bruce Banner has not been the star of a solo game since The Incredible Hulk movie tie-in game that released in 2008 to overwhelmingly poor reviews. Hulk: Ultimate Destruction was the last game to really understand what made the Hulk so fun to play as, focusing on the character's destructive nature and how that impacted the world around him. But having released all the way back in 2005, the game has (along with its destruction physics) sadly grown outdated.
Crystal Dynamics did its best to bring Hulk's destructive capacity into modern consoles, even upgrading Marvel's Avengers' Hulk destruction physics in its next-gen versions. Unfortunately, the game's attempts to balance all of its playable characters (including characters with no superpowers, like Hawkeye) leaves the Hulk feeling far weaker in his gameplay than he should. It's difficult for gamers to truly feel the power of the Hulk in their hands when it takes 10 punches to defeat one A.I.M. bot. The issue of trying to balance the Hulk gameplay-wise with other heroes is a problem that most team-based Marvel games seem to struggle with, including Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, Marvel Heroes, and a number of mobile games the hero appears in.
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Because of this, the Hulk needs an Ultimate Destruction sequel or spiritual successor to really capture the feeling of being the Hulk, and with the power of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S,
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