New Wolverine Leak Hints At Gameplay Inspired By The Classic '80s Comic

Following the devastating cyberattack on Insomniac Games last year in which hacker group, Rhysida, shared personal details about some of the studio's employees alongside major information about and other titles in development, various clips from Insomniac's upcoming titles, including a canceled multiplayer game, have been surfacing online.

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on X, with a further post on the r/GamingLeaksAndRumours Subreddit containing more gameplay clips, and whereas there have been clips of the mutant engaged in bloody battles in the past, these new videos focus more on the game's traversal. The footage showed Wolverine in his yellow and blue comics outfit leaping from rooftop to rooftop across an early build of Madrapoor, with some drawing comparisons to the parkour seen in the games, just without the web-swinging and aerobatics that the webheads display.

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Traversal has always been one of Insomniac's strong suits as a studio, with titles such as and the aforementioned games seeing players fluidly move across their open-world maps. Therefore, while some may have expected Wolverine to be slightly more grounded following 's grittier reveal trailer and perhaps use his motorcycle to get around the map ala., it shouldn't be too surprising that Insomniac has stuck to what it's good at.

Fortunately, these methods aren't out of character for Wolverine, especially if the story is pulling from comics where he clashed with The Hand, a ninja group that may have been teased following an update to . If is drawing inspiration from the acclaimed, action-packed 1980s comics run by Chris Claremont where Logan traveled to Japan, for example, Insomniac's form of traversal could definitely work, especially as