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Tiny, Green, and in your PocketUnlike The multiplatform Hulk game The Incredible Hulk for the GBA isn't based on Ang Lee's movie. Instead it's based on the comic books. Happily that means we get a tiny GBA reproduced introduction featuring Rick Jone's fateful folksy trip to a bomb testing site and Bruce Banner's fabulous rescue. The one that fatefully traps him in the blast and begins his problems.  Why Ang Lee changed this intro, I really don't know. Anyway, this also means the villains found in here don't involve Nick Nolte. Instead we get Tyrannus, The Executioner, The Abomination (please put this guy in Hulk 2!), all led by the elongated noggin of The Leader. The Incredible Hulk is a simple top-down platformer that recalls a more simplistic era. The gameplay could best be called nostalgic and at worst derivative. You pilot the Hulk around various locations, like Gamma Base, and punch soldiers and other bad guys until they disappear. He absorbs, but is damaged by, yellow bullets, electrical traps, and the aforementioned bosses. And he can pick up objects, toss them, and pound his way through doorways. Additionally he has some special moves, motivated by rage and deft button mashing, like his thunderous clap, and he can lower his shoulder and knock down enemies like ten-pins. They've found a clever way to incorporate Banner without boring the audience (like Ang Lee and the bigger Hulk game did). Now Banner whispers advice to the big brute from deep within his subconcious. He reveals level goals and places an arrow telling you where to go next. That sort of thing. The animation is decent though the screen is a bit dark and the color palette uninspired. The hulk is too tiny and not animated enough to replicate the sheer sense of destructive fun found in the much better multi-platform tie-in, and this makes the game feel sort of mediocre. Add to this poor sound effects, gameplay that defines repetition, and the lack of a save system outside of auto-saves every level.  This Hulk isn't that incredible really. But fans of the movie, the comic, the character, and earlier games that pioneered this sort of gameplay will probably be pleased for a few hours. Ages: 5+ ESRB E- Everyone Developer: Pocket Studios Publisher: Vivendi Universal 
Kids will probably like this game more than grownups. It's just easier to forgive the mediocrity if you can imagine the Hulk doing more than he's doing here.
Kid Factor by Andrew Bub
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