After a tour of New York in several Spider-Man adventures, Insomniac Games is turning its eye to Marvel’s Wolverine. Compared to its Spider-Man projects, Wolverine looks like an ultraviolent tour through the seedier side of the Marvel Universe that’s in tune with the savage nature of its protagonist. It’s also a game that looks to be full of Easter eggs, something which Insomniac excelled at hiding in its three Spider-Man games. This week’s deep-dive into the game during the State of Play livestream had quite a few references to the comic, TV, and film history of Wolverine, and if you missed them, we’ve rounded up all the ones we could find inside that brutal preview.
Taking flight in Madripoor
Bookended by sizzle reels, Marvel’s Wolverine showed off a quick look at Logan’s favorite stomping grounds, Madripoor. The fictional island is located between Singapore and Indonesia, and it has a long history as a haven for pirates, criminals, and anyone else looking to disappear from the world. Logan often visits the island under his alter ego of Patch.
Attack of the Sentinel
Is an army of titan-sized mutant-hunting robots overkill for keeping the next wave of human evolution in check? Probably, but when you’re armed with a set of adamantium blades in each arm, you can quickly cut them down to size. The Sentinel program has undergone many changes and adaptations over the years, but in Marvel’s Wolverine, players can expect to throw down with an old-school mechanical giant that looks inspired by the machines seen in the ’90s X-Men: The Animated Series cartoon.
Trask-ing for trouble
Speaking of Sentinels, it looks like this incarnation is once again a product of Trask Industries. Run by genius scientist Bolivar Trask, the company has popped up in several Marvel productions over the decades.
Hair to the throne
Recent versions of Wolverine in pop culture have kept his body hair more manageable, but it looks like Insomniac is embracing another iconic part of Logan’s hair-itage.
The best there is what he does, bub
Fun fact: You know you’ve messed up when Wolverine starts calling you “bub” and you can spot that phrase in some artistic graffiti in Marvel’s Wolverine.
Don’t get too close to Leech
One of the Morlocks–more on them next–Leech is a green-skinned mutant who can shut down the powers of any mutant within his close proximity. Usually a good kid, he has a tragic backstory and spent most of his youth living in the sewers of New York alongside his fellow outcasts.
