A new trailer for Sony Interactive Entertainment and Insomniac Games’ upcoming superhero action game, Marvel’s Wolverine, has emerged via the recent Insomniac Games data theft.
The leaked trailer for Marvel’s Wolverine shows the protagonist platforming across a forest, taking down a group of armed mercenaries. Later, he is seen in an indoor environment taking on a ninja clan of some sort. Given the leak, it’s unlikely that this exact same footage will make it into the actual debut gameplay trailer for the game, which is expected to happen sometime later this year.
Previously, a presentation slide that had presumably been extracted from the stolen data obtained from Insomniac Games by ransomware hackers had revealed that Marvel’s Wolverine may feature Machine Learning based AI upscaling to enhance image quality. It suggested that there may be dedicated silicon inside the rumored PS5 Pro to facilitate the technology. A rumored specs leak for the console had stated that it will feature an XDNA2 NPU for the purpose of accelerating Sony’s bespoke temporal Machine Learning upscaling technique.
As per the information available on the slide, Marvel’s Wolverine will not only feature AI upscaling via Machine Learning, but several other new technical features, including film quality facial animation, muscle and cloth simulation, hierarchical destruction, real-time damage and regeneration, real-time global illumination, dynamic weather and foliage, photogrammetry pipeline, deformable surfaces (snow and mud), and Motion Matching for improved locomotion. In addition, fluid dynamics will also be investigated.
The leaked side also mentioned 60 fps as the game’s base frame rate in Performance mode with Ray Tracing features enabled. The mention of “base frame rate” suggests that the game will also run at a higher frame rate, with Variable Refresh Rate enabled and 120 fps as the target frame rate, much like in Marvel’s Spider-Man 1 and 2 as well as Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.
