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\n\t\tMarvel\u2019s Wolverine \u2013 just how new is it? (Sony Interactive Entertainment)<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tMarvel\u2019s Wolverine \u2013 just how new is it? (Sony Interactive Entertainment)<\/p>\n
Sony<\/a>\u2019s recent State of Play showed off Marvel\u2019s Wolverine<\/a> and God Of War<\/a> Laufey on PS5<\/a>, but one reader feels these new games are suffering from an old problem.<\/p>\n I watched the State of Play on Tuesday<\/a> and I was glad to see that afterwards a lot of people seemed to share my same sense of vague disappointment. Everything looked good, especially the Sony-made stuff, but at the same time none of it seemed all that interesting. Wolverine<\/a> and God Of War Laufey<\/a> just seem so\u2026 predictable. Even if that means being predictably good looking and probably very good to play.<\/p>\n You could say they look predictable because God Of War is part of a long-running series and Wolverine is too, in that they\u2019ve obviously just swapped the locations and powers with the Spider-Man<\/a> games.<\/p>\n I\u2019m sure there\u2019s more to it than that, and I\u2019m sure they\u2019re good games, but that\u2019s kind of the point. They\u2019re good but their predictable and overfamiliar, even though they\u2019re not really meant to be. I think the problem is that they\u2019re still following the Sony formula, which is a concept I haven\u2019t thought about in years.<\/p>\n To recap, the phrase \u2018Sony formula\u2019 started to get used in the PlayStation 4 era, once people began to realise that, as good as they were, all their first party games were actually very similar. There was the whole \u2018sad dad\u2019 clich\u00e9 for the main characters but more importantly the fact that they were single-player open world, narrative games with similar graphical styles and usually similar combat and stealth.<\/p>\n At first it didn\u2019t matter, it was just a funny thing to point out, but when it kept happening people started to get a little tired of it, and then the PlayStation 5 got released. At that point Sony solved the problem by just not making that many games anymore. I\u2019m not going to get into that well-worn complaint but one of the side effects, that I don\u2019t see people really talking about, is that it\u2019s meant the whole Sony formula issue has been forgotten.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tExpert, exclusive gaming analysis\t\t\t<\/p>\n Sign up to the GameCentral newsletter<\/a> for a unique take on the week in gaming, alongside the latest reviews and more. Delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n But by having two big games out at once (that shouldn\u2019t seem like a lot but it is, compared to the last five years) you realise that the issue never got dealt with and that Sony first party games are still all kind of the same. There seems to be a new obsession with Devil May Cry style combat, since that\u2019s apparently what Laufey and Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet are like, but otherwise it all looks very familiar.<\/p>\n Everyone\u2019s been talking about how Wolverine seems to be borrowing a lot from Uncharted, with the stealth and the motorbike chase and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a coincidence that that\u2019s also a Sony first party game. Everything is from the same playbook and nothing new is being added.<\/p>\n If Sony ever did go back to making games at the same rate as before, or at least a lot faster than up till now, it\u2019s going to bring the Sony formula problem right back to the surface again and I think it\u2019s obvious there\u2019s no answer for it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n There\u2019s been a lot of talk about the PlayStation 6<\/a> probably not doing anything different in terms of graphics but I think the other problem is that it\u2019s not going to do anything new in terms of gameplay either, which is just as big a problem. It feels that nothing much has changed in game design for a long time, not just for Sony but for anyone. Which is worse when you have to wait more than six years for a new game and then find out it was pretty much the same as the old game.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not saying I definitely won\u2019t get either game because of this \u2013 I\u2019m definitely interested in God Of War Laufey \u2013 but I think we\u2019ve forgotten that there are issues with Sony\u2019s first party games that never got resolved and are probably going to leak into the next generation as well.<\/p>\n No matter how good they are, Sony needs to learn to make more than just one game dressed up to look like many, and I don\u2019t think either of these two new ones are going to change that.<\/p>\n By reader Stiffler<\/p>\n \t\t The reader\u2019s features do not necessarily represent the views of GameCentral or Metro.<\/p>\n You can submit your own 500 to 600-word reader feature at any time, which if used will be published in the next appropriate weekend slot.<\/p>\n Just contact us at gamecentral@metro.co.uk<\/a> or use our Submit Stuff page<\/a> and you won\u2019t need to send an email.<\/p>\n Arrow Arrow Arrow![\"God](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SEI_300071229-3c1b.jpg\")
\n\t\tGod Of War Laufey \u2013 at least it doesn\u2019t have a sad dad (Sony Interactive Entertainment)<\/p>\n
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