After working for the movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, 20th Century Fox film exec Jeff Katz is set to work on the movie-based game. Everybody just loves Wolverine, so he definitely wants the game to be as bad-ass as the X-Men bad boy.

A couple of the Fox execs, myself and a couple of the principals involved, we’re all gamers. So when it came to the Wolverine movie game, it was like, "Let’s do the coolest possible version of an X-Men game."

He added, "Even the game itself, from everything I've seen and been told about it, is going to be slightly harder-edged than the X-Men games that have come before - which fits the tone of the movie." The plan is to release the Activision-published title on all major platforms, with a few family-friendly tweaks for the Wii version.

When asked about which platform he wanted to play it on, Katz was quick to reply, "I do business on Xbox Live. When I was at New Line, I put the Gears of War deal together for the movie over Xbox Live," he said. "It's been good to me, so I'm loyal to it." As a gamer himself, Katz believes that he got the job done.

As for a "harder-edged" Wolverine, I certainly hope we see more of the real Wolverine, and not the cheesy motivational-speaker Wolverine that we keep seeing in the movies. Plus movie games have a bad habit of...well...sucking, most of them at least, so maybe we shouldn't put too much expectation into this one.

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