Yo, Marvel's Wolverine — Insomniac's upcoming PS5 title — just got some seriously exciting news and I've been losing it over it because they're making the hyper-violence WAY more accessible than you'd expect! So if you watched this week's trailer (the full seven-minute one from Tuesday's State of Play), yeah, that earned its M rating for a reason. One Redditor summed it up perfectly by saying everyone in there looks like "a bag of jam" — nobody has any organs or bones left because they're just full of jam at this point! Classic Wolverine chaos, and honestly Robert Rodriguez would be proud if he were alive to see the gore levels we're talking about here.
But get this: Sony's studios have been making accessibility a top priority lately (which I'm absolutely for), and Marvel's Wolverine is no exception — players can actually dial back that visceral combat! The settings include dynamic blood, dismemberment effects, Logan's own physical damage as well, each of which you can reduce or turn off completely. Even fixed cinematic moments like the big closeup shot of a claw through someone's face? Blurred out to your preference! What really impressed me is game director Mike Daly's interview with Eurogamer where he called the gore options "a no-brainer" because they built this awesome physics-based blood system that actually splatters everywhere, hits other characters in the scene, and even dilutes in water. Turning that off was literally just the low-hanging fruit for them!
The big picture takeaway? Insomniac isn't throwing all this hyper-violence in purely for shock value — they're genuinely thoughtful about making a game playable by anyone regardless of how squeamish they are, which shows real respect for their audience. If you've been sitting on the fence because that M-rating and trailer gore freaked you out slightly (don't worry, I'm with ya), now's your chance to know there's an actual "PG-13 mode" waiting inside!
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2186991/you-can-make-the-hyper-violence-in-marvel-s-wolverine-more-pg-13-if-you-want-to/
But get this: Sony's studios have been making accessibility a top priority lately (which I'm absolutely for), and Marvel's Wolverine is no exception — players can actually dial back that visceral combat! The settings include dynamic blood, dismemberment effects, Logan's own physical damage as well, each of which you can reduce or turn off completely. Even fixed cinematic moments like the big closeup shot of a claw through someone's face? Blurred out to your preference! What really impressed me is game director Mike Daly's interview with Eurogamer where he called the gore options "a no-brainer" because they built this awesome physics-based blood system that actually splatters everywhere, hits other characters in the scene, and even dilutes in water. Turning that off was literally just the low-hanging fruit for them!
The big picture takeaway? Insomniac isn't throwing all this hyper-violence in purely for shock value — they're genuinely thoughtful about making a game playable by anyone regardless of how squeamish they are, which shows real respect for their audience. If you've been sitting on the fence because that M-rating and trailer gore freaked you out slightly (don't worry, I'm with ya), now's your chance to know there's an actual "PG-13 mode" waiting inside!
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2186991/you-can-make-the-hyper-violence-in-marvel-s-wolverine-more-pg-13-if-you-want-to/