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Inside Look - Characters: Gambit

April 17, 2009

It was pretty cool when we first learned that we were going to get to have Gambit in our game. Gambit is a strong fighter that contrasts Wolverine in many ways.

Instead of claws, he’s got his staff, which affords us an entirely unique move set. Instead of strength by brute force, he’s got strength tempered with finesse. Instead of bad-assery, he’s got that dangerous charm about him. He also loves to throw him some cards! So expect to eat a deck or two when fighting him.

Animating Gambit was a blast. He’s got attitude, he’s got crazy powers, acrobatics, and he’ll do it all while taunting you with one of his quips. Gambit is a trickster, so we wanted to approach him like that. He won’t necessarily attack you head on and full force. He’ll use his environment to his advantage and try to control the space in which you fight. You are, after all, in his domain: a massive Casino in New Orleans! That gives him the home-court advantage, mon ami.

A quick story that happened while in development: We had just finished hooking up Gambit’s power to manipulate an object’s potential/kinetic energy, charging it up and causing it to explode, when the funniest thing happened.

I loaded up New Orleans to fight against him because I wanted to make a couple small tweaks on a few of his new moves. At the time, his health and powers had not been balanced yet, so he was still a bit on the weak side, and I was able to beat him down rather handedly. As Gambit’s health got lower, he fought with increased tenacity and actually began using his ability to charge objects around the level to use against me. Since that power had just been added to the game that morning, it was the first time I’d ever see him use that against me, and it caught me a little off guard!

He started going crazy, charging anything in sight as his health got down to a sliver. Once he had pretty much blown up everything in sight, he did something that was quite unexpected. As one last act of desperation, he actually knelt down and charged the floor on which we stood. As I sat there, I watched as the floor – then the walls, then the ceilings – all started to light up as the potential energies within them reached critical mass. Seeing no other alternative, he had charged up the ENTIRE level and, in one big explosion, ended the fight for both of us!

Needless to say, we needed to put some limits on Gambit’s abilities. I had to go get one of our programmers (who was busy working on code for all of our menus) to take a look at this glitch. We just finished level three and needed to tighten up the graphics a little bit. Otherwise I may have fixed it myself.

Author: John Sinclair

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Inside Look - Characters: Gambit

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Spidermark's avatar

Spidermark

04/18/09

Gambit has always being one of my favourite X-Men characters.

and him in this Wolverine game is huge bonus.

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mkoswell

09/30/09

very cool character for X-men, OMG is very cool!

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clmb007

04/18/09

awesome..it be cool if you can play as him....

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Boy Banshee

04/18/09

Yeah, it would be fun to play as Gambit somehow, but it’s not really his game is it raspberry

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sabertooth2

04/21/09

i kno wolverine is cool but once u finish the game i hope we are allowed to play as gambit or sabertooth

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weaponx05

04/18/09

This is gonna be one of the coolest fights in this game and one of my favorites...Gambit’s sweet

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qu_ku_katchu

04/18/09

well.... gambit will get his ass kicked !! XD

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sabertooth2

04/21/09

he will get his ass kicked by sabertooth

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t15k44yu

09/13/09

Hahaha… Kick hiss ass, guy…

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beastfromtheeast

04/18/09

Dr Frankenstein needs to control his monster LOL

That’d be really cool to see though, Gambit kinetically charging the tv screen and everything explodes raspberry

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matthood5

04/18/09

Cool, thanks for this smile

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WOLVERINEUNCAGED

04/18/09

lol that souns awesome!

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Boy Banshee

04/18/09

That would be hilarious if Gambit blew up all of the maps in the game, and Wolverine was left floating around in space.

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sabertooth2

04/21/09

yh that would be really funny

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X_Man

04/18/09

dam i think DLC is calling out to Gambit for a playable later on. i cant be the only one that hears it wink..

nd being able to choose btw 2 characters in the arena would be awesome

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Belboi

04/18/09

gonna hurt a little bit to hand gambits behind to him.  But better his then mine,lol.  Glad they fixed that part where he starts charging the whole room.  Can you imagine how many times you would have to do that fight over and over again,lol.  Does sound like a worthy challange though

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gambit013

04/18/09

u should leave it im a gambit fan and i would love to see that and after u beat the game can u play wit diffrent characters

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Dead Pool ID

04/19/09

that would be cool to play as others when you beat the game or weapon x areaa.

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Boy Banshee

04/18/09

I suppose he’s meant to resemble the movie version of his character. Damn :(

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Omega red

04/19/09

wow, that is gambit new attack, kamikaze, lol

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Dead Pool ID

04/19/09

gambit is cool can’t wait to play game

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JbombTheGreat

04/19/09

Gambit is “Very Nice”.  I would also like to see him as a playable character @ some point in the game.

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GOD X

04/19/09

YEEEEEEEEEEEES!!  10 DAYS TO GO

GAAAD DAMN LOL Shame there’s no demo on PSN :-(

Oh well. THe waiting will pay off soon.

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Scorpion96

04/20/09

I hope this Gambit is in MUA 2.

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aisen14

04/20/09

that would be soo cool!

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imchrisru

04/21/09

“he had charged up the ENTIRE level and, in one big explosion, ended the fight for both of us!”

haha maybe you should leave that glitch, it would definitely catch a lot of people off guard

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Jadryx

06/04/09

I’d probably drop my controller in shock!

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sabertooth2

04/21/09

gambit’s good but not better then sabertooth

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sabertooth2

04/21/09

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sabertooth2

04/21/09

if anybody got msn add me

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Modren44

04/21/09

I second the vote for replaying the game as Sabretooth or Gambit.  But everything that I’ve seen so far looks awesome. 

It really raises my expectations knowing that the game was in development before being tied into the movie.  Great works guys!

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sam_tgo

04/21/09

Agreed. this game is now at the peak of Awesomeness!

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Inhuman

04/22/09

I wouldnt mind playing as Sabretooth or Gambit but i just cant wait to play as Wolverine

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Zanstique

04/24/09

I’m apprehensive because I dont want him to stray from his 616 counterpart.

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Mon Ami

04/28/09

im really lookin forward 4 this game to come out not only coz da azz wolverine but also gambit hes one of my fav x men of all i hope they add him into da the game as a playble character i even want to see cyclops.I hope in the future we get to maybe a gambit game he would be an intersting charater i hope they didnt take too much away gambit powers he is after all a omaga mutant (1 of the strongest mutant in the world) well that until sinister colsed up some of his powers. ps...i hoope they da make a gambit game cant wait till the movie comes out

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THE KILLER

04/28/09

IF YOU COULD PLAY AS GAMBIT LIKE REPLAY THE GAME AS HIM WHEN YOU REACH THE GAMBIT MISSION IT WOULD BE GAMBIT VS GAMBIT THAT WOULD BE FUNNY.

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deadwolvie2

04/29/09

Yo, Is Wolverine gonna say da f word

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juicebeast

04/29/09

Wow Gambit would make an awesome playable character.  I wish I wasn’t the only one who felt that way, but I guess it is a “Wolverine” game.  No one would want to play as these other characters but me, I guess.  *sigh*

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Remy Lebeau

04/30/09

Gamibt is without a doubt the best x men character...hope they dont screw him anally in the movie/game.

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05/10/09

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05/10/09

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iron24

05/31/09

Man the Gambit fight went on forever but I finally beat him, enjoyed the last part of the fight on the large neon letters, very fun.

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spideykid

06/09/09

Gambit Rocks

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juicebeast

07/19/09

there’a major bug in the 360 version of the gambit fight atop the big letters.  major bug that forces a restart, and happened to me the first 3 times i tried it.  happens right after the second qte. booo.

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khairuddin6

09/07/09

Gambit Rock.. i like this game. I’ll be post about this game on myblog Mengembalikan jati diri bangsa

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Concave_Ace

09/11/09

I’m terrified on how they can’t make a descent looking Gambit. He doesn’t look like that in the comic-books, you know?!

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Pancallok1

09/27/09

yes sir it was pretty cool, nice game. i will bookmark it
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10/06/09

a gambit game he would be an intersting charater
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01/16/10

I hope in the future we get to maybe a gambit game he would be an intersting charater i hope they didnt take too much away gambit powers he is after all a omaga mutant
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01/21/10

Loved Gambit shame I had to beat him, maybe you will think of listening to some of the members suggestions here and make us a Gambit game…
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02/13/10

I hope that in the future, we may reach the race start, he will be an intersting Charater, I hope they didn’t take too much notice of his power, after all, other than the start omaga mutation

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