While hardly an ideal Marvel effort, the Merc with a Mouth makes a rather fun – if juvenile – game debut.
As for the game itself, it's divided between melee and gun action, and sometimes you can intertwine the two. When Deadpool isn't shooting at guys from a distance, he's using his swords – or whatever other weapons you have – to dispatch of them, using stylish combos. Over the course of the game, you can unlock new weapons, and increase his abilities to make him even better in combat. Though that hardly accounts for the game's replay value (it's rather short), you can change weapons on-the-fly, mixing up your combat quite well.
The game also allows you to teleport and get behind your enemies for a counter strike, though it's hardly as smooth a process as, say, Batman grabbing limbs in the Arkham games. Sometimes you teleport twice by mistake, outside of your enemy's reach; other times, it doesn't register, and you get hit anyway. This system probably could've used a bit more tweaking, honestly.
Visually, Deadpool doesn't set a benchmark like High Moon's previous effort, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, did, as there are a few glitches here and there, and problems with the camera that are hard to overlook – mainly when it comes to wall-jumping and maneuvering aerial platforms. (You'll miss so often that you'll get used to the process of teleporting to stay alive.) However, some of the level designs are good, like one where you go hopping about in a Sentinel's boot, shooting at enemies with a well-packed turret. The Marvel characters are also well represented, whether it's Wolverine's growling sneer or the voluptuousness of the heroines and villainesses represented – to which Deadpool easily recognizes the, ahem, "finer assets". (OK, fine, he makes boob jokes.) It could've looked better, but it's certainly up there with the better Marvel efforts.
