The Incredible Hulk (2003). Play online

Summary

The Incredible Hulk (often just called Hulk) drops you into an isometric beat‑'em‑up where Dr. Bruce Banner’s alter ego smashes through 33 sprawling levels. You can hop, slash, and pick up vending‑machine debris or whole buildings to hurl at waves of enemies, while broken walls and cracked panels reveal secret corridors and hidden power‑ups. A “rage gauge” builds as you crush foes, unlocking three flashy special attacks that drain it only slightly, and your health slowly regenerates under the Hulk’s own portrait above the gauge.

The standout is the chaotic four‑player “Hulkmatch” mode via the GBA link cable, letting each participant control a differently coloured Hulk in an arena of tossed objects and frantic kills. Reviewers loved the large‑scale sprite work and the comic‑book panel box art, but many complained about clunky controls, thin AI, and a repetitive soundtrack that quickly turns into a “mind‑numbing dirge”. Despite its rough edges, the game offers a surprisingly deep playground for anyone craving green‑muscle mayhem on a handheld.

Storyline

In The Incredible Hulk for the Game Boy Advance, a gamma bomb test in a remote desert forces scientist Bruce Banner to rescue his friend Rick Jones and absorb the blast’s radiation. The exposure turns Banner into the Hulk, a massive, rage‑filled creature he can barely control. After breaking out of an underground detention facility, the Hulk battles General Thunderbolt Ross’s troops and thwarts the Leader’s band of humanoid mutants who are after a gamma‑absorbing device called the Absorbatron.

The Hulk then discovers that the subterranean tyrant Tyrannus has kidnapped Ross’s daughter Betty to demand the United States. He storms Tyrannus’s palace, rescues Betty, and later faces Ross’s prototype armored robot and a futuristic city ruled by the Executioner, thanks to a military T‑Gun teleport. After returning to the present, the Hulk defeats the Leader’s Super‑Humanoid and an Octosapens robot in an underground arena.

Finally, the Abomination—created by the Leader’s spy Emil Blonsky using Banner’s tech—attacks, but the Hulk overpowers him. With Rick revealing the Hulk’s true nature to Ross, the military lets the Hulk retreat back to Banner’s secret lab.