Considering the relatively family-friendly certificate gracing the X-men Origins: Wolverine movie, it's something of a surprise to see any hope of similar thinking for the tie-in game decimated in a bloody and gory opening sequence.

Fast-forward 10 minutes or so and we'd already diced someone's head in the rotor blades of a helicopter. Not for nothing does X-men Origins: Wolverine Uncaged have an 18 certificate on the front of the box. It's hard to think of another game thus far this year that deserves it more.

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But then that's not the only surprise. Given the reasonably turgid collections of games that have surrounded summer blockbuster movies in recent years, it's genuinely refreshing to see that when it came to Wolverine, someone actually bothered. Really bothered, too. For the masterstroke was to apply a bit of old-style Golden Axe thinking, and to turn Wolverine's world into a 3D orgy of slash and hack entertainment.