Insomniac Games has shared a new slice of gameplay for Marvel’s Wolverine during today’s State of Play, giving us another good look at the game ahead of its release on 15th September, exclusively on PS5. Pre-orders are now open for the game.
Marvel’s Wolverine promises to be the darkest, grittiest Insomniac game since the Resistance trilogy on PlayStation 3. Needless to say, Wolverine having claws coming out of his hands is going to have a less friendly style of fighting than the very quippy Spider-Man.
In this new trailer, debuted by creative director Marcus Smith, Wolverine is on the trail of some mutant kids who have been captured by cybernetically enhanced soldiers known as The Reavers. Leaping into the incredibly bloody action, Wolverine can take a stealthy approach to brutalising the enemies. With his trademark claws and superhuman healing factor (he also seems to have a suit that very easily cleans itself from blood) he’s the perfect protagonist for a combat-heavy action game. Insomniac has really leant into this with an especially bloody looking take on superhero combat with dismemberment and plunging blades to go with the acrobatic lunges and fast-paced scrapping against a range of augmented enemies that tote guns and energy weapons in addition to their cybernetic upgrades.
While we’ve seen snippets in the past, Insomniac had kept fairly tight-lipped about the actual story, until now. Wolverine is famously an amnesiac who gradually discovers the military experiments that led to him having an Adamantium skeleton, and this game looks to explore that aspect of the character. Having seen a brief glimpse of Mystique last year, Jean Grey turns up to fight alongside Logan with her telekinetic powers. There’s some slick combos between the two, and Wolverine breaks into a frenzied mode which drains much of the world of colour.
We also get to see Logan on a bike, before leaping between trucks and, yup, slicing his way through people again, Realy the only one to give him any kind of troubles is a huge hulking guy with a full robotic body, giving the chance to show Wolverine’s healing factor in action.
Finally answering the question nobody was asking of what it would look like if God of War and Uncharted had a murderous baby, this is sure to be one of the biggest games of the year for PlayStation owners, though definitely not the biggest game of 2026.
