The Incredible Hulk Ultimate Destruction - Vivendi-Universal (2005): It isn’t often that a video game company gets a game adaptation absolutely perfect, but that was the case with Vivendi’s Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction game in 2005. I could go on and on about the coolness of the game’s story or the appearances by long-time Hulk comic book mainstays such as General Thunderbolt Ross, the Abomination, Doc Samson, Mercy or Mr. Fixit, but that isn’t what the game is really about. If you pick-up a copy of the Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, there are only two things you need to know.

First off, the game allows you to roam around a completely open and dynamic “sandbox” type city that reactions to everything you do to it in a way similar to the Grand Theft Auto series. You can run amuck, causing damage at will and fighting both the military and police, as well as running dynamic missions which pop up based on your location.

Second, the control set is the absolute best ever found in a comic book video game adaptation. There are none better. Period. You can do everything you could imagine the Hulk doing in a video game - climbing buildings, taking mile long leaps, tearing cars in half to form giant metal gloves or even grabbing the round sign of a nearby gas station and using it as a bowling ball. And, the futher along you go, the more moves you are able to add to your rampaging Hulk. This, in addition to the Ultimate Spider-Man game, was one of the very few cases where I thought a video game developer had understood the property they were adapting and had “gotten it.” The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction is a MUST-HAVE for anyone looking for a perfect game based on a comic book.