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X-Men Legends.....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Someone in an earlier review stated that X-Men Legends is a brawler with RPG elements, in the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance/ Champions of Norrath/Fallout:Brotherhood vein, but better executed. They couldn't have nailed it any better than that. The game begins with Wolverine's arrival in New York city to rescue a young mutant, Magma, who's being hunted by the Brotherhood of Mutants. Saving her sets a series of events in motion that lead to a cataclysmic battle of epic X-Men proportions. Legends lets you play as 4 of 15 classic X-Men(including my favorites: Gambit, and Nightcrawler)on a huge quest that will take up easily 30 hours of your life, depending on your skill level. While not perfect by any means, Legends is a meaty action RPG that will almost certainly please fans of the X-Men or of these types of games. Graphically, the game sports a cel-shaded look to give it that comic-book feel and, while it doesn't impress visually, it serves its' purpose in bringing things in the X-Men Universe to life. Control is very good for this type of game. It's all about battling, anyways, and battling here is fun and addictive all the way throughout. The game truly showcases what has made the comics great for three decades. I applaud Raven Software on doing such an excellent job on the game. You can tell Raven are fans of the comics, themselves. I can't wait to see what they accomplish in X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse.

Awesome, but something didn't quite click

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

X-men Legends is a brawler featuring 15 different X-Men and four powers per mutant. The gameplay is easy and fun, but when you are about two-thirds through it gets a bit boring. The sound is great, totally captures the X-Men feeling and style. The locations are okay, but a few classic stages were missing. The team at Raven got creative with the enemies, but like the gameplay looses it's touch after awhile. You can level-up all you're characters like any other action RPG, and this was where the click wasn't. The powers. Some of the X-men were handled beautifully, like Cyclops and Psylocke, but most others were reduced to one fifth their true power, like Storm, Rogue, and Gambit. And on the other hand, most players are content with that, but these reduced characters were handled perfectly in the Mutant Academy games, and with this new gaming age, the great gamers are expecting more. We'll get our answers with the Legend sequel in October 2005. This game is the best X-Men game on the market so far, but still has it's share of bad junk. In conclusion, I have only one more thing to say. For those of you who love replay value, this game has almost no replay value except leveling up characters differently. This game was good, but the newly-released Fantastic Four is better.

AWESOME GAME!! Very in depth!! Definitely a must have for fans!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is by far the best game Ive played this year. It has a great story, awesome characters including nightcrawler, iceman, collosus, magma, wolverine, cyclops, and many others. Each character has their own skills and as you move through the story you earn experience points which allows you to upgrade their abilities, such as wolverine has claw flurry, brutal claws, etc. and each point you add to a certain category will give you X amount of damage until you level up again, very in depth. This game had a lot of effort put into it. If u liked the arcade version, this is a hundred times better because you can control all four x men in your group and the characters abilities are fun to manage.When you level up, you get one point: you can use it for striking, agility, focus and you can put it into a slot which upgrades your abilities like iceman has ice armor, ice shards, freeze blast as you keep adding points these attacks get stronger. Its amazing how they put this all together. I thought it was cool when I took on some sentinels for the first time, I havent seen those huge robots since the cartoon. The graphics are tops, the action is nonstop, and what I really like about this game is that you have to use certain powers from characters to solve puzzles, for example in one mission the hull breaches were leaking and I had to weld all the breaches so the leaking would stop, so I used Cyclops optic beam to do it. Its been fun and the game is really long..and locks of extras for you to do in between missions when you are at the mansion. Have fun, enjoy.

X-Men Legends was going in the right direction...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

X-Men Legends was going in the right direction. It has cool playable characters, fun superpowers, and a spectacular storyline, but the gameplay is just way too flat and repetitive. All you do is walk into a room, kill people, break stuff, and sometimes use your powers to solve a "puzzle" (making a bridge, welding metal). There are no interactive mini-games of any sort and levels/events take place in the same locations over and over. The gameplay is exactly the same from beginning to end.
The graphics are the worst part of the game. They look hand-drawn and stiff. If you break an object, it simply disappears and a small cheap "shattering" effect happens. The sound is okay on some parts of the game, but ridiculous on others, like with my fav character Storm, whos lightning strike sounds like a low-volumed spark. And I hate how her tornadoes suck. All they do is lift things up. They rarely destroy or kill. Plus it's hard to attack people with them because anything makes them dissipate.
The camera is the worst part of the game. You see everthing from a diagonal angle, almost as if you're watching everthing from a ceiling. Speaking of which, most levels do not have ceilings. So all you see is the floor and the walls. The camera angle is very frustrating to play with.
Also, to pass the whole game, it takes 20 hours. I they the developers should have cut down on the hours and used that extra memory on better graphics, sound effects, and interactive levels.
I hope Avtivision makes X-Men Legends 3, but with state-of-the-art graphics, sound, music, and interactivity, including mini-games instead of flashbacks.

Fun multiplayer hack n' slash

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I actually started playing this game after getting tired of playing Diablo 2 online. Sound unrelated? It really isn't. In fact, I was surprised by how much the two games have in common in their gameplay. This is a multiplayer hack n'slash much like Diablo 2. The fun of it is that you get to play as one of the X-men and can have up to 3 tag-along teammates, live or computer controlled, to help you complete your missions.

I enjoyed the way you could control the way in which your characters level, allowing you to focus on specific abilities.
For example, do you want to level up Iceman to master his powers of freezing opponents as an assist power, or would you rather beef up his ability to throw ice powered punches in hand-to-hand combat? Would you prefer to focus on Jean Grey's abilities to confuse groups of enemies or increase her use of telekinesis to slam them againt the walls? Should wolverine increase his ability to strike with monstrous slashes or should he focus on his healing ability and speed? Decisions like this add to the games replay value.

Game-play worked well. Special moves were easy to execute and basic melee combos were not too difficult to integrate into each battle. Switching between characters is a breeze and can really enhance the solo player's ability to coordinate attacks of all his characters. Also, the level construction varies a lot from sinking battleships crawling with sentinels, to underground sewers full of morlocks. A lot of the environment is destructible including walls which really enhances the gameplay. There's nothing like watching Jean Grey hurl a pool table at a cluster of baddies.

The graphics in-play are cell shaded which I liked just fine. I was less impressed with the cinematic cut-scenes. Some of the models were so poorly textured that they almost looked like stop motion figurines. Voice over work was well done. Notably, Patrick Stewart lends his voice to Xavier. Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure some of the talent who voice the cartoon versions of the characters were also used here, particularly Wolverine's.

My only other complaint is that though battles with groups of baddies get hot, they are over fast. A lot of time is spent trashing rooms and destroying object to see if bonus items were inside them. I would have rather gotten bonus items by actually using my X-men to fight more bad guys, not to throw piles of crates against the wall.

If you like the X-men, or if you just like hack n' slash, this is definitly a worthy choice for you

Good Stuff

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My boys really enjoy this game. The co-operative play mode is a great feature of this game.

Not what I expected

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: October 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was really disappointed when I got this game. The first thing that made me angry was the cheesy animation and graphics. When this game was being advertised the characters looked three dimentional and more lifelike. It turned out to be nothing like the advertisement. The characters looked more cartoonish. This was a major disappointment. I liked the x-men children of the atom by capcom better than this. Someone should sue for false and misleading advertising.

Rent...don't buy this gaem

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: December 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Its nice to rent if you are saving up for a good game. I wouldn't invest in this game as the graphics are cartoony. The only good thing is mid mission if you find an extraction point you can change characters. But the game play is nothing like advertised on the TV. Save your dough for a good game and rent this on a rainy day!!!!!!

rent this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: September 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

do not buy this game rent it . it is a great game but the replay value is 1 after u beat it the only thing that changes is that you unlock different uniforms wich equal abought 5 different ones in all u have to start over at the begining back on level one and do it all over again from the begining back at level one

Arcade Game with 21st Century Sensibility

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've just started becoming a serious gamer this past year - and have tested out all the 'Greatest Hits' games (Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, Metal Gear Solid), but by far this is the best gaming experience I've had. This is the first time I've had to *force* myself to stop playing.

I do agree with some of the cons other reviewers have listed. There are problems with camera angles, the save points are spaced out entirely too far, and sometimes the battles are repetitive.

That being said, I was blown away by the amount of detail put into the game. At times, I felt as I was dropped directly into a comic books. The visuals are incredible - and they folks @ Activision really researched these characters. Granted, some of the voice-overs are awful - but the scrips/storylines are faithful to current characters.

What I enjoyed most about the game is that there is a video arcade sensibility to its design. The game design, 'powering' up characters, and the graphics all lend credence to this.

If you are looking for a sweeping Final Fantasy style epic - this game is NOT for you. However, if you are looking for some good arcade game fun - I highly recommend it.

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