- Can't Un-Hear It: Mark Hamill as Wolverine is one of the best known voices for the character, aside from Steve Blum. Likewise, Fred Tatasciore's Sabretooth and Magneto are also very memorable.
- Complete Monster: The Professor, real name Truett Hudson, is a mastermind behind the Weapon X project, an experiment designed to create the perfect killing machine. To this end, the Professor experiments on a least a dozen people, turning them into mindless feral mutants, before he gets his hands on Victor Creed, aka Sabretooth, and Logan. Kidnapping the two, the Professor commits a number of painful experiments on them, wiping their minds and turning them into perfect soldiers. When Logan escapes and confronts the Professor, the latter informs him that he injected all Weapon X subjects with the Shiva Virus, which would kill them in a few years, leading to Logan starting to search for the cure several years later.
- Goddamned Boss: The Juggernaut boss fight, though less to do with the boss himself and more to do with the fact that his fight comes at the end of a long stealth segment, which you'll have to repeat if he beats you due to the lack of checkpoints, which he will given the game's difficulty.
- It's Hard, So It Sucks!: The game's main sticking point for many players is just how unforgiving the game is when it comes to mistakes, exacerbated by the game's overall lack of guidance and Checkpoint Starvation.
- Just Here for Godzilla: Many Spider-Man fans just want to see Spidey talk to Wolverine.
- Narm: A major chunk of the Juggernaut fight consists of the player listening to his long, loud groans of agony, which never fails to be hilarious considering that Juggernaut is established to be utterly unstoppable...yet apparently he has very little pain tolerance.
- Nintendo Hard: The game lives, sleeps and breathes this trope. Despite Wolverine's healing factor (slowly) regenerating his heath (if his claws are retracted), many gamers will refer to this as one of the hardest games of the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox generation that is still POSSIBLE for non-hardcore gamers to beat. The utter lack of mid-level checkpoints becomes an exercise in psychosis the longer the game goes on, occasionally featuring long stealth segments where being spotted once is an immediate game over.
- No Problem with Licensed Games: Though the game's difficulty is a big point of contention, it is often looked upon fondly by players in retrospect thanks to its stylized presentation and reverence for the original source material.
- That One Boss: Magneto. In order to hit him, the player has to climb to one of the specific locations in the arena and do a lunge move to reach him and bring him down where he can be damaged. It is up to the player to figure out the right location to hit Magneto, and if he is floating over the molten steel, Wolverine will fall into it and need to escape, taking more damage than he inflicts on Magneto. While the player tries to reach Magneto, they have to avoid the floating bits of metal (as running into them deals heavy damage) and the energy spheres Magneto throws at them, and he will hoist the player into the air, forcing them to mash the buttons to escape damage. At certain points, Magneto will attempt to break the Power Limiter restraining him. While he does come to the ground while doing this, making it easier to hit him, the player dies instantly if he breaks the Power Limiter.
- That One Level:
- The "Void Droid" segment. It's slow, difficult to maneuver and anything but indestructible, which is bad news for non-fans of going all the way back to the beginning of the long, arduous level if the Void Droid gets scrapped before it can cross the level and open an otherwise impassable door. Ironically, when you have to face identical Void Droids as Wolverine later on, they're terrifying obstacles.
- The level where you use a giant mounted laser cannon to pick off enemy troops from a hundred yards away seems like it's going to be a Breather Level. The player quickly learns it's a five minute long gauntlet of pain where you can either memorize the exact timing and locations of each incoming wave of troops, or lose every time.
- Unexpected Character: Nobody expected Spider-Man to appear in the game.
- What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: While the game is T-rated, it has plenty of blood shown.
- Vindicated by History: The game helped serve as an inspiration for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which is also a great Wolverine game that outdid the film it adapted from.
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