Hulk: Ultimate Destruction Developer Tips - Part 3
Round three of tips from the guys at Radical Entertainment.
Published: October 11, 2005
Still in dire need of helpful tips to get you along on your merry way in The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Descrition? How lucky you are that Dave Forsey, Eric Holmes and Greg MacMartin of Radical Entertainment are back with more tips 'n' tricks than you can shake a stick at... well, six, but no matter! Read on anyway!
1. Choose your battleground
Even the Hulk can feel crowded at times, so when the military starts ganging up on you - choose where to fight. Use buildings to block your opponent's movement or take to the air where tanks can't follow. Use your speed to hit 'em hard and fast - then duck for cover.
2. Find Your Style
The Hulk is such a flexible fighter you'll find you favour certain moves. Experiment with everything you unlock, in particular with charging the moves. If you have trouble on a certain mission, buy a new move or mix it up and use an old move you retired - there are different techniques that are more powerful against each enemy type. If you keep repeating the same old moves, the enemies will take pleasure in handing you a large green ass - i.e. yours.
3. It's not the fall - it's the sudden stop
Picture two tons of green muscle hurtling out of the sky from the top of the tallest skyscraper. Now imagine what happens when it hits ground. Now imagine that it's you. Some of Hulk's moves (like the elbow smash) do extra damage when you perform them from on high. Target your pitiful enemy on the ground, run up the side of a handy nearby building and let loose - he'll never know what hit him.
4. Read The Blonsky Files
Early in the game you'll steal Emil Blonsky's mainframe. Throughout the game story you'll decrypt various top-secret files on enemies, locations, Blonsky's secret plans, personal emails and more. This is your opportunity to climb into the mind of your enemy - study each and listen to the commentary by Banner and Samson.
5. Hulk Like Side Missions...
Besides being fun all on their own, you can earn extra smash points for completing Side Missions. Once you have played a side mission (unplayed side missions are represented on your HUD map as a ! ), the mission becomes accessible through the front-end menu, making it easier to go back to play previously played side missions in order to beat your high-score and earn more smash points.
Side Missions are a major source of smash points; if you want to unlock the cool moves early, hitting the side missions is a great way to fill your warchest.
Additional Side Missions are unlocked as the game story progresses. It is important to note that side missions that are unlocked later reward you more smash points than those available earlier.
6. You Can't Hurt What You Can't Touch
Hulk is fast, very fast, and when he's moving at full speed and changing direction his enemies have a difficult time locking on to do him damage.
Standing still during an intense combat scenario is a sure-fire way to get pelted with multiple projectiles at once, increasing the possibility of death. Keep moving around; jump and run constantly; even the most advanced military hardware strains to target a fast-moving Hulk. Once you've gotten this technique down, you can turn the tables on the masses of military opponents - a timely dodge can bring "friendly fire" to bear, where enemies damage or destroy each other.
Thanks for sticking with us so far, and we hope you enjoy playing this game as much as we did making it. Excelsior!
1. Choose your battleground
Even the Hulk can feel crowded at times, so when the military starts ganging up on you - choose where to fight. Use buildings to block your opponent's movement or take to the air where tanks can't follow. Use your speed to hit 'em hard and fast - then duck for cover.
2. Find Your Style
The Hulk is such a flexible fighter you'll find you favour certain moves. Experiment with everything you unlock, in particular with charging the moves. If you have trouble on a certain mission, buy a new move or mix it up and use an old move you retired - there are different techniques that are more powerful against each enemy type. If you keep repeating the same old moves, the enemies will take pleasure in handing you a large green ass - i.e. yours.
3. It's not the fall - it's the sudden stop
Picture two tons of green muscle hurtling out of the sky from the top of the tallest skyscraper. Now imagine what happens when it hits ground. Now imagine that it's you. Some of Hulk's moves (like the elbow smash) do extra damage when you perform them from on high. Target your pitiful enemy on the ground, run up the side of a handy nearby building and let loose - he'll never know what hit him.
4. Read The Blonsky Files
Early in the game you'll steal Emil Blonsky's mainframe. Throughout the game story you'll decrypt various top-secret files on enemies, locations, Blonsky's secret plans, personal emails and more. This is your opportunity to climb into the mind of your enemy - study each and listen to the commentary by Banner and Samson.
5. Hulk Like Side Missions...
Besides being fun all on their own, you can earn extra smash points for completing Side Missions. Once you have played a side mission (unplayed side missions are represented on your HUD map as a ! ), the mission becomes accessible through the front-end menu, making it easier to go back to play previously played side missions in order to beat your high-score and earn more smash points.
Side Missions are a major source of smash points; if you want to unlock the cool moves early, hitting the side missions is a great way to fill your warchest.
Additional Side Missions are unlocked as the game story progresses. It is important to note that side missions that are unlocked later reward you more smash points than those available earlier.
6. You Can't Hurt What You Can't Touch
Hulk is fast, very fast, and when he's moving at full speed and changing direction his enemies have a difficult time locking on to do him damage.
Standing still during an intense combat scenario is a sure-fire way to get pelted with multiple projectiles at once, increasing the possibility of death. Keep moving around; jump and run constantly; even the most advanced military hardware strains to target a fast-moving Hulk. Once you've gotten this technique down, you can turn the tables on the masses of military opponents - a timely dodge can bring "friendly fire" to bear, where enemies damage or destroy each other.
Thanks for sticking with us so far, and we hope you enjoy playing this game as much as we did making it. Excelsior!
