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5. Logan's Insanely Detailed Healing - X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Wolverine has survived a hell of a lot. Across his comic and film career, he's been nuked, eaten by cannibals, reduced to a single cell and even crushed under a steamroller - only to regenerate in agonising, gruesome detail.
In gaming, for the most part, his signature healing ability hasn't been given its due - mostly tossed out entirely because, you know, not being able to die is a fairly game-breaking advantage. One exception is 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a loose adaptation of Logan's pathetic first solo outing. Along with some seriously graphic, visceral dismemberment, Wolverine's healing factor is on full display here - and it's grisly and very impressive.
The reason for how good Logan's healing abilities look might not immediately be noticed if you're not looking closely, and are just enjoying ambushing mercenaries and chopping their arms and legs off.
However, if you do make the effort to take a massive amount of damage and then pause to examine just what's going on as Wolverine heals, you'll be blown away. To achieve the effect, developers Raven Software actually modelled a full skeleton, musculature and skin model for Wolverine, and they can all be seen regenerating in real time.
Insanely cool, and the only game to do Wolverine's healing factor right.