LEGO Marvel Super Heroes: Sabretooth will be playable

You'll have to get used to it, with the San Diego Comic Con opening its doors next week and the hundred or so characters announced, the LEGO Super Heroes video game will be talked about a lot.

I am not looking forward to this game as much as the possible minifigs of the characters that LEGO will deign to market. Whatever technical innovations the game will benefit from, we can already predict that it will be about beating baddies / collecting coins / opening doors / turning cranks / building bridges / solving simplistic puzzles, etc. All the usual ingredients which make the success of these games but which I nevertheless got a little bored with the different versions released in recent years. Destroying everything with the Hulk or making Iron Man fly won't be enough to stand in front of my console for very long this fall, but I will.

It is via the official LEGO blog from the section dedicated to video games we learn that Victor Creed alias Sabretooth (The other mutant with claws brilliantly embodied by Liev Schreiber in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and also present in the first installment of the X-Men saga under traits of Tyler Mane) will be one of the countless playable characters (in free play) of the game. The mutant, whose only image available is the visual above, will be one of the villains to beat in the last level of the game. 

Granted, this isn't the scoop of the century or the most essential character on our minifig displays, but it's a good start.

The pace of announcing the various playable characters is expected to pick up next week at the Marvel panel at San Diego Comic Con where the game will take pride of place.