During Sony’s latest State of Play, Insomniac Games unleashed its latest preview for Marvel’s Wolverine with gory Mortal Kombat-like violence. It also featured a closer look at some of the X-Men-related characters who will appear alongside Wolverine.
Jean Grey
The footage seemingly features the first meeting of Wolverine/Logan and Jean Grey, and the most striking thing is that they don’t appear to know each other at all. Jean and Wolverine separately arrived to save a group of mutants from the cyborg mercenaries known as the Reavers, many of whom were featured in the 2017 film Logan.
Although Jean and Logan are unfamiliar with each other, they have a series of tandem attacks that utilize her telekinetic powers to hold or restrain their mutual foes until Wolverine can strike the killing blow. It’s similar to the team-up attacks in Insomniac’s Spider-Man games.
Note that Jean isn’t wearing an X-Men uniform and she doesn’t seem to have any backup beyond Logan. It suggests that the X-Men have either never formed or they haven’t come together yet.
Leech
The most prominent hostage among the mutants is Leech, a young boy who lives among the Morlocks in the comics and in the original X-Men animated series. Leech’s powers negate the abilities of other mutants around him.
Callisto
If the group that Leech is with are the Morlocks, then the woman in black leather may be their leader, Callisto. However, her identity isn’t clarified in the trailer.
Skullbuster
Skullbuster is one of the only prominent Reavers featured in the demo to get called out by name. He’s not the leader of the group, but he’s higher up in the food chain than the grunts that Wolverine brutally puts down.
Ogun
This character appears to be Ogun, an evil ninja with a longstanding grudge against Wolverine. Not even death has prevented Ogun from striking back at his rival from beyond the grave.
Omega Red
A Soviet relic from the Cold War, Omega Red has almost always been an adversary to Wolverine. It doesn’t appear that they’ll have much common ground in this game either.
Mystique
There have been rare instances in the comics when Wolverine and the shapeshifter Mystique have been aligned, or even lovers. But she’s not to be trusted under the best of circumstances.
Sabretooth
It just wouldn’t be a Wolverine game without his personal arch-nemesis, Sabretooth. And it looks like Marvel’s Wolverine will deliver another showdown between Logan and his most-hated foe.
Marvel’s Wolverine will hit PlayStation 5 on September 15.
