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Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Thhis game is really fun, and i would recomend it. The camera veiw is a litlle hard to get used to but overall the game is really good. You can play and unlock many different charecters including nightcrawler, gambit, and collossus. If ur up 4 a challenge than buy this game. It is very entertaining and fun, but a couple of the missions are really hard. The graphics are also pretty cool but hard to get used to, another god thing is that when your playing the game by yourself u still get 4 other players played by the comp. but youcan switch to any of them at any time. I really like this game and if ur into X-men you wont be dissapointed with this game.....BUY IT!!

Final Fantasy + Mortal Kombat = X-Men ?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game overall. It's like a blend between Double Dragon (from NES days) and Final Fantasy Tactics... sort of! From graphics to voice acting (including Patrick Stewart as Xavier) to a very decent script, this game is well-rounded. I think fans (like myself) of the X-Men as well as new comers to the genre will both like it. Read on for more detail about the game.

The basic theme is that you run around various missions, moving in real time, and encounter all sorts of enemies. Every mission is part of an evolving plotline that involves classic X-Men villains like Magneto and Shadow King. You control one X-Man at a time, but you can have up to 4 X-Men in a party. If you're playing one-player mode, by pushing the directional pad on the controller up, down, left or right you switch to a different X-Man in your team. So, if you're fighting up close and personal, you can go to Wolverine but if Sentinels drop in and you want to fight while retreating, you can rely on Cyclop's optic blasts.

Every X-Man is fully customizable. You control what ability they develop (will you max out Wolverine's healing factor or focus on his claw attacks? Will Iceman be a ranged attacker or melee? etc.) and how they raise in stats. You can also equip them with armor and items you find (though the system is pretty simple here with only 3 equipable spots per X-Man). In combat, you push R2 in combination with circle, triangle, X or square to activate a different ability, so it's not the same old fighting over and over.

The game is absolutely packed with extras. You can find Danger Room Discs that let you practice skills and unlock items. You find comic books with X-Man art. And as the game develops, you'll meet many famous and infamous characters from the series. If you explore areas fully, especially the X-Mansion each time you have a mission in it, you'll run into lots of sub-plot like love interests between X-Men and conflict between Cyclops and Havoc, for instance. Or, you can stick to the combat missions and not get into all the details.

In X-Men: Legends, you play as virtually any X-Man from the comics/movie/TV-series. I haven't finished it (and there is one character I haven't unlocked yet), but so far you can play as everyone from Wolverine to Jean Gray to White Queen to Collossus to Beast to Xavier (though in only select missions) and so on. Missions take you from NY to the Morlock Sewers to the Astral Plane and more. Plus, you can go head to head with friends or the computer in battles you design (you pick any unlocked character or enemy from the game and put them head to head in the Danger Room).

This game is fantastic, and I bet it is even more fun if you have four people playing together, each controlling an X-Man. I would suggest it to anyone. Hope this helped.

X-review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best X-Men game yet! Not only can you choose four from a selection of 15 of X-Men to play as, (you have to unlock them to do so) but you can also play as enemies you have beaten, in the danger room! You can get there from the main menu. It also often requiers a lot of strategy and planning.

Final Fantasy this is not

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Finally the X-Men are being used in a video game the way they were always meant to be. RPG is the perfect platform for them. That said, the game itself is far from perfect. The biggest problem is the camera. It hangs over head and you really can't see where you're going. If there's an enemy ahead you can't see them until you're close to them. That doesn't get much time for planning. You can control the camera, spin it around, even move it down closer to you, but this is very limited. The developers should have given the gamers full control of the camera. We should be able to position it the way we want.

Which leads me to the controls. You're stuck with what you got. I'm not comfortable with the jump button being triangle. I'd rather it be x. But the controls are not customizable so I had to learn to live with it.

The graphics are, for the most part, beautiful. The environments are extremely well thought out. They even thought to put wheel chair ramps all over the X-Mansion. It's subtleties like this that I love. The stages are also extremely interactive. You can destroy almost everything in rooms. You can even knock down walls and surprise your enemy.

The battles do get repetitive. You fight the same guys over and over. Nothing too hard. Anybody who has played this type of game before will have no problem with X-Men.

As a fan of the X-Men, I've very happy with the game though it could have been much better. Hopefully, Activision will make another X-Men RPG and improve on their flaws in this game.

Graphics: 4.5
Controls: 4.0
Sound: 4.5
Fun Factor: 4.0

The Truth about X-Men Legends...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ok first of all I think this game hit all the important spots that a gamer/comic-book fan could have ever wanted. It was appealing to both people who knew about this crazy X-Men stuff and people who didn't. On with the review...

I found the sound and gameplay to be easy and simple nothing out of the ordinary and nothing to difficult to understand. The storyline was even better and I realized this was the games strongest point. Mixing adventure/action with an RPG style worked very well in this title. Also being able to use and see so many different mutants was a nice touch.

With X-Men Next Dimension I found it hard to catch combos and twirl my powers in any real effective way. X-Men Legends traded my anger for Next Dimension with joy for X-Men Legends... bottom line folks... buy it if you love the X-Men... rent it if you find them luke-warm in your heart. :)

If you like X-Men, well, this is it...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I used to read the X-Men a lot when i was a teenager and when i went to college, well, this is game has it, the same feeling when you read the comic book, it is as good as Wolverine's revenge and i can assure you it has a lot better plot than Ultimate Alliance. You can walk in the mansion and use the danger room to get experience points. The game is like Champions but with cell shading graphics. The game is based on the comic books and not the movies and is a great addition to anybody's superhero game library. The game can be played in 1, 2, 3 or 4 players, and if you're playing your game alone and somebody comes in and wants to join, you can simply do it pausing the game and adding the control to the second, third or fouth player immediately and if that friend or family member has to go or simpley doesn't want to play anymore, you can pause the game and simply turn off the control to the player.

The game is long enough to keep you busy and fun enough to keep you playing.

I give this game four stars 'cause the second game has better graphics and you can use both good characters and evil character 'cause the plot makes good and evil get together to confront a common enemy.

If you like super hero games, don't doubt it, this is it and you can find it very cheap for it is an old game; and if you like the X-Men, well, what are you waiting for?

Super Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

OK, so I bought a PS2 for my husband a long while back. He didn't like the games I picked out for him(I wasn't into games at the time) and so he picked out X-Men legends. I picked it up for grins one day cause he keep bugging me about it. I was instantly hooked.

Now, I don't know anything about Marval and their comic books, but I have to say that this game is truly one of my favorites. You get to choose for of your favorite characters to play with at one time. You can also push the directional buttons to switch between characters. For instance, if you're playing with Cyclops and you need to fly somewhere, just hit your directional button to the person who has flight and off you go. Fly back and you can instantly change back to Cyclops or one of the other two characters.

When you level up, you get points to distribute amoung your attributes and your skills. The game is rather stingy with the points so spend them wisely. Also, spend money wisely because there isn't a whole lot.

Most of the characters are awesome, a couple are worthless, like Jubilee and Psylocke, but they don't take away from how awesome this game is. The graphics in the game are rather bland and tend to run together. The voice work for the most part is good, can get cheesy at some points in the game. The storyline is simple and easy to follow, that's good for me.

Overall, there is nothing too complicated about this game so long as you allocate your skill/attribute points accourdingly and have the appropriate items equipped. This game is even great for the young ones to play.

Meh

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'm not an avid game player, and only pick up the controller once in a blue moon. With this said, I had a very hard time playing this game. I actually haven't made it past the 1st level! I've gotten so frustrated with it that I think I'm going to sell it to someone who will acutally have the time and patience to play it. If you are a very skilled game player then this game is probably for you. Otherwise, I would recommend you look elsewhere for an X-men game.

Fun, but there are better action RPGs on sale.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I loved both Essential Uncanny X-men and Essential X-men book. I liked movie.

This game hooked me on, but just for four missions, more or less. It takes part in catacombs, sewers and shady interiors, so there is repetition in that.

AI is sometimes really stupid, since I lost my almost entire team crossing ice bridge because they fell off.

You also must know how to develop skills in advance, you simply need Storm's pick and fly ability at one point and if u don't have it...

Sometimes, you must save best characters for the end and you don't know which are the best in the beggining of the mission and you might get best killed early in mission.

Game is technically great, graphic and animations are great, but there is no humour or dialogue like in new Bard's Tale. I would reccomend this to people who don't mind phisically laborous , long levels and to X-fans. Me, well, I don't know whether to give up or try it in few months since beggining

Enjoyable

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

At first I didnt like this game. After so long playing flashy games, this takes you back to old school graphics. You soon get use to the arcade style graphics and in the end you'll enjoy the game.

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