Imagine if Rocksteady decided that for the Batman Arkham series they specifically didn't cast Kevin Conroy to voice Batman because they didn't want to pay the voice actor or they purposely wanted to differentiate the games from other entries/appereance in the franchise.
That's the feeling I got when I didn't hear Steve Blum's voice come out of the mouth of this Wolverine not only they did not hire him but this new voice actor doesn't feel like Wolverine something about is not clicking with me.
It doesn't impress me that the game is bloodier than a British twat. Wolverine's claws being just sharp enough for token dismemberment ruins my suspension of disbelief. It feels like Wolverine is being filtered through some retarded, arbitrary policy. "You can't say motherfucker, but you can say mother father!"
I remember Itagaki had some quote that was essentially 'in other action games, the player attacks the enemy. In Ninja Gaiden, the enemy attacks the player'.