The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction

The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction is a three-dimensional action-adventure game. The player controls the Hulk, which has various abilities and attacks. The game takes place in an open world consisting of two large territories - a city and a desert . In the game world, you can destroy a large number of surrounding objects - trees, poles, cars, fences and even some structures, such as certain buildings or bridges. Most of these items can be used as weapons: for example, a pillar can be used as a dart to play darts , thereby directly entering the enemy, and the car can be turned into a shield that protects against attacks. If you arrange destruction and, especially, kill passers-by and demolish large buildings, the Hulk will be attacked by the police and the military, and with an increase in the danger level (there are five in all), helicopters , airplanes and special robots - Hulkbusters will be used. If at the highest level of danger to destroy all attackers, the danger will fall to zero until there is no further destruction. The Hulk has a scale of energy that is wasted when attacking an enemy or using particularly powerful attacks, and some attacks can only be used if the scale is extremely high. If the energy scale is completely consumed, the Hulk will be killed.

The game has training in the desert, story and additional missions. Moving along the plot, the player performs various tasks, fights with enemies and bosses , gets new abilities and increases the effectiveness of existing ones. You can read about upcoming story missions in the menu. Additional missions marked with special icons on the map are tasks such as destroying enemies, passing the path for a while and the like, and do not affect the completion of the game. For their implementation, a bronze, silver or gold medal is given, depending on the result. In addition, in the city and the desert you can find: special places between which the Hulk is able to instantly move; spheres with energy; destruction points, allowing you to buy new abilities in the game menu (destruction points can also be earned by completing missions and destroying enemies); bonus markers that reveal concept art , videos, and hidden characters.

The development of The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction was conducted since 2004 by Radical Entertainment, which earlier, in 2003, created the Hulk game based on the film of the same name . The new project about the Hulk differs from its predecessor in the presence of an open world, and the developers used improved graphic technologies to see the whole environment at a great distance, and sound effects were recorded from real sounds of destruction of objects; according to the developers, they wanted in their creation to show all the strength and power of the Hulk ^{[ave. 1]} .

The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction was announced on December 17, 2004 ^[1] . Initially, the game was also planned for release on a PC, but was later canceled for this platform, and development went on for the PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox consoles. The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction was shown at the annual E3 show at the Nintendo press conference in May 2005. The game was released on August 23, 2005 in the United States and September 9 of the same year in Europe. The publishers were Vivendi Universal Games and Sierra Entertainment .

The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction was welcomed by the gaming press. On GameRankings and Metacritic sites , the average score is 84.85% and 83/100 respectively for the version for PlayStation 2 ^{[2] [10]} , 84.10% and 84/100 for GameCube ^{[3] [8]} , 84.03% and 84/100 for the Xbox ^{[4] [9]} . Journalists attributed the advantages of high replayability, fun gameplay, quality graphics and sound, but criticized the short duration and monotonous side tasks.

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