Deadpool

Deadpool was interesting. Not "interesting" in the way your mom says it, which is just code for bad. It's interesting in that there are parts of it that are super enjoyable and parts of it that drag on until I don't want to play anymore. I feel like the tone is spot on for Deadpool, the gameplay is fun for the most part, but for some reason, I still was in a hurry for it just to be done, which is kind of sad for an 8 hour game.

So the conceit of the game is that Deadpool has been approached to have his very own game, but Deadpool being Deadpool he's not about reading scripts and following a plan. Plans are for people not nearly as awesome as Deadpool. The whole thing is very meta, as you'd expect. He uses a bunch of explosions right out of the gate, which ruin the game's budget, and the studio makes one of the levels uber shitty looking to save money, resulting in Deadpool calling them up and yelling at them to fix it. Things like that abound.

The fighting is fun and kind of reminds me of the current gen Batman titles in that you're surrounded by goons on goons on goons, and you bebop from jerk to jerk, jacking them in the face and countering them as they try to attack you. I say "kind of" though because I don't think it's quite as good as all that.

You can use guns, swords, and explosives. I laughed out loud the first time I ran away from a goon while still shooting, and Deadpool just shot behind his head without looking, yelling "Pew pew pew!"

There were a lot of things that made me laugh. Like I said, the tone is great. There was one point where you were trying to wake up an unconscious Wolverine by pressing X. Each time, Deadpool would slap Wolverine and say something like "That's for never calling just to say hi.", "WHY", "WON'T", "YOU", "WAKE", "UP?", "That's because the player keeps mashing the button.", etc, etc. This went on for like 5 minutes if you kept pressing the button. You could have pressed "B to be a quitter", but I was enjoying it far too much for that.

Speaking of Wolverine, there's quite a few X-Men that show up in this game as well as villains in that universe. Each time one of them shows up, you can press Spacebar, and Deadpool will tell you all about that person in fun little cutaways that show images from the comics to illustrate what he's talking about. These were a really nice add.

Onto what I didn't like as much. The combat was fun to a point. I liked sneaking up behind unsuspecting baddies and watching Deadpool one shot them in creative ways. I liked the special moves that became available when I beat the hell out of enough people to gain the "Momentum" for those moves. I enjoyed the countering finishing moves. I liked that Deadpool mocked me when I did a crappy job. What I didn't like was the fact that ramping up the difficulty was done like you'd see in an arcade game. Just add more bad guys. More and more and more bad guys until at the end, you're fighting off a dozen waves of bad guys, and you're just tired of the whole thing. Every area was very similar looking, and you'd just have to fight through a bunch of guys to get to the next area that looked the same and had more guys. This was fine for a while, but I think there needed to be more variety in the things I was doing.

Back to the comparison with the Batman franchise, I would have probably had the same problem with it if it didn't have the stealth areas mixed in there. That's not really Deadpool's style, so I wouldn't expect something like that, but I would have appreciated some sort of mix up regarding gameplay every once in a while similar to that, just to break up the areas.

All in all, I enjoyed it, but it could have been better. If this game were a chimichanga, it'd be one from Taco Bell. Not everybody's gonna like it, but I did, and there's only a slight chance it'll give you the shits.