Despite the divisive critical reception, developer Insomniac’s Wolverine has got a lot of things right when it comes to depicting the iconic X-Man, and one of them being Logan’s comic accurate height which is on the shorter side. And during a recent interview with the Low Power Mode podcast, Wolverine’s narrative director, Walt Williams has explained why it was important for them as developers to get the height of Logan right, especially in contrast to his archenemy Sabretooth and how the differences in their physical attributes serve an emotional aspect of both character’s relationship to each other.
“Anger and rage is a response to something,” he said. “It’s usually a response to some feeling of loss or a perceived feeling of loss. It is an attempt to fill something that is missing in you, whether it’s momentary, whether it’s rational or irrational. Simply trying to present the traditional Logan-Sabretooth relationship as antagonistic simply because it is, simply as an alpha male kind of a thing — as archetypal as that is for the characters, it did not fit what we were trying to reveal about Logan, about the depth of his feelings.
“Because Sabretooth is a dark mirror of Logan. If we’re telling a story where we’re trying to make people truly understand how much this character feels and become empathic towards his entire emotional journey, that means Sabretooth also has to feel just as deeply as Logan. He also has to have the same feelings of yearning and tenderness and loss. They just express themselves in the darker side of that. Logan feels that yearning. He gets scared and pulls away. Sabretooth feels that yearning and it makes him hurt, and he wants to lash out to exert that hurt outward.”
He also praised Sabretooth’s voice and motion capture actor, Brett Gipson, and stated that he has delivered his “favorite interpretation” of the character ever:
“Full props to our character department, too, because what they did with his model, I love. I love the size difference, because early on I was like, ‘Guys, let’s be honest. Wolverine needs to be like five feet tall,’” Williams said.
Marvel’s Wolverine is available in two different editions–the Standard edition of the game will cost you $69.99 while the Digital Deluxe version sports a price tag of $79.99. There’s no mention of a collector’s edition that’s geared towards enthusiasts so if you were hoping for physical collectibles like statues and maybe action figures, looks like there won’t be any of that.
