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Subscribe to our newsletter X-Men Origins: Wolverine could have been a shrug and a yawn like every other promotional movie-tie in game around 2009, but developer Raven Software instead made a genuinely impressive action game that even outshone its source material.

It wasn't easy.As producer Keith Fuller tells FRVR in a recent interview, Raven was tasked with making its blustery action game before the movie of the same name was even close to finished.

"It was harrowing to go through that process," Fuller says.

"Had they made the movie and then they're like, 'Hey, do the game' – different story.

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The fact that they were still crafting the script as they were recording parts of the movie and we're trying to make the game, that was really difficult."Movie tie-in games have generally fallen out of favor in the entertainment world – now that the video game industry is out of its awkward teenage years, you're be more likely to see a movie based on a game rather than the other way around ## Editor's Note This announcement has sparked considerable discussion among gamers. Source: [GamesRadar+](https://www.gamesradar.com/games/action/x-men-origins-wolverine-is-better-than-the-movie-says-dev-but-it-was-harrowing-to-make-the-ps3-action-game-before-the-film-was-done/)