X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009). Play online

Summary

The Nintendo DS version of X‑Man Origins: Wolverine transforms the cinematic sequel into a hack‑and‑slash adventure that feels like a pocket‑sized God of War/Devil May Cry hybrid. Presented in third‑person view, you control Wolverine with three core attack types—light, heavy and grabs—plus a lunge to close distance and environment tricks such as impaling foes on spikes. A Rage meter fills as you butcher enemies, unlocking brutal moves like the claw spin or a temporary berserker mode, while experience points reward combos, destructibles and collectibles for skill upgrades.

Hugh Jackman returned to lend his voice, and Blur Studio supplied CGI cutscenes, while composer Paul Haslinger scored the handheld trek. Easter‑egg hunters can spot the Lich King’s sword from Warcraft and the infamous Portal cake hidden in levels. Critics gave the DS iteration a middling 55%/55‑score, pointing out its low‑resolution, shortened campaign and repetitive action, and the title was removed from digital stores after Activision’s Marvel licence expired in 2014.

Storyline

In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the prologue shows Wolverine slaying soldiers in a bleak city, his thoughts drifting to a forgotten past. The game then flashes back to Angola, where Team X—Colonel Stryker, Wolverine, Sabretooth, Wade Wilson, John Wraith and Nord—searches a remote village said to hide a valuable mineral, implied to be adamantium. After a brutal clash, Stryker orders the death of CIA liaison Raven and the massacre of the villagers, prompting Logan to turn on his teammates before being knocked out.
Three years later Logan lives in Canada with Kayla Silverfox. Sabretooth ambushes him, breaks his bone claws and kills Kayla, while Stryker lures Logan back to Alkali Lake for the Weapon X procedure that bonds adamantium to his skeleton. The operation ends with Stryker ordering Logan’s termination; Logan escapes, kills Nord and many guards, and vows revenge. He tracks Wraith to Project Wideawake, cuts off Bolivar Trask’s hand to free Wraith and destroys a prototype Sentinel.
Wraith leads Logan to Fred Dukes, who reveals “The Island,” a mutant prison where Gambit hides. On the island Logan learns Kayla is a mutant who faked her death and that Stryker plans to turn Wade into Weapon XI by grafting multiple mutant powers. After defeating Weapon XI and sparing Sabretooth, Kayla dies, Stryker shoots Logan with an adamantium bullet erasing his memory, and the epilogue shows Trask replacing Logan’s hand with a robotic prosthetic as Sentinels ravage the city.