This Game Isn't Given Enough Credit
The first, and probably biggest, risk that this game took is the M rating. I would have never imagined this game ever getting a rating higher than a T. It's never been done before. I'm sure the reason it's never been done before is because the producers want to keep the same general audience from the movie to the game. It makes sense, but Activision had another idea.
If someone came up to me and asked me if the idea of making the video game adaptation of Wolverine much more violent than the movie a good one. I would have said that would be really cool if they did, but they won't do it. Activision did it and did it with pride.
They did not shy away from making this game as gruesome and brutal as you can get. In reality, the damage Logan can do with the claws are tremendously more violent than any movie would do. I hear that Zack Snyder was interested in making the movie R rated. I'm sure it would have been awesome, but of course the company wouldn't allow it. $$$$
I have a great guilty pleasure in going back to the first level after beating the game and slicing guys arms off with one hit. There is a lot of mutilation, decapitation, and gutting in this game. Personally I like it when I maim some guys arms or legs off and he rolls around on the ground in agony. Of course, slicing someone in half from the waist is always fun. I know, I'm evil.
It's not just the blood and guts that I admire this game for. I like how they took a different approach of telling the same story from the movie. Typically, most adaptations would reanimate or put in scenes from the movie into the game. It's the easy way to do it. This game did the opposite. It used the same story and same characters, but expanded it and showed it differently.
*WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD*
I think my favorite moment where they deviated from the movie is the ending. When Logan gets shot in the head and loses his memory. If you've seen the movie you know that Logan wakes up and finds Kayla dead but doesn't remember her. It was kinda cheesy the way it played out. The game, however, told it better. It was the same up to the point where Logan wakes up and finds himself alone because Kayla decided to die in the river so he doesn't see her. It think that is much sadder. It played out right.
So as previously stated I admire this game for the risks it took. And I hope more adaptations will do the same.