Overview
- The game went live on PlayStation 5 on Sept. 15 with regional midnight rollouts, preloads already available and an Insomniac‑announced day‑one patch to download before playing.
- Insomniac ships Wolverine as a linear, single‑player action title that emphasizes close‑quarters melee and an estimated roughly 18‑hour main campaign with New Game+ and mission‑replay features at launch.
- Technical targets include 60 frames per second with ray tracing on base PS5 hardware and a reported preload size of about 79.36 GB that could change after the day‑one update.
- Early reviews are mixed: critics often praise Liam McIntyre’s motion‑capture voice performance while calling out pacing issues, combat repetition and some design padding.
- The final game reflects a multi‑year overhaul—after a 2023 leak and a director change Insomniac moved from an open‑world plan to a tighter design and added visible clothing‑damage plus 100‑plus accessibility and content toggles to let players control the game’s brutal tone.