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Reviving a classic X-MEN game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: August 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If this game is based on the early 90's arcade game this will truly be a favorite with players, it's about time Nintendo (or even any company) to bring this classic style of game-play back to mainstream entertainment on the high quality of the Game Boy Advance!

Horrible.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: September 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I've always loved arcade beat-them-up games, and when this game came out I rushed out and bought it immediately. What a mistake. This entire game feels like a cheap PC shareware product. Sure, you get to tackle many different enemies, but they all basically have the same moves and differ only by the number of hits it takes to kill them. Sure, you get to go against more than a dozen bosses, but I personally found only 1 or 2 of them to be a mild challenge. The rest were such pushovers that they were barely able to hit me before I stomped all over them. Sure, there are 12 levels, but they are all extremely linear, with absolutely no variation... their backgrounds are different, but that's about it. And to top it all off, I beat the entire game with Wolverine within an hour (!!!) of obtaining it, without even using up a single continue or ever looking into the manual. There are three other single player characters you can choose, but by the time I was finished with Wolverine I never wanted to play this game ever again. There is a multiplayer mode in this game that I haven't tried, but from what I saw of single player, it's probably not worth the purchase either. Bottom line: unless you're an ultra-hardcore fan of the series, STAY AWAY.

Decent, but could have been better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I love the X-Men, but this game doesn't do the characters and comic too much justice. There's a lot of action and a bunch of characters from the comic which is cool, but they all fight with the same moves as each other and it gets repetetive and dull pretty quick. Get this game if you're an X-men junkie, but I would suggest getting the Spiderman Game boy advance game if you're looking for a fun and challenging comic book based game.

Arcade

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am a 13 year old gamer and I have recently purchased a Game Boy Advanced SP. I have two games and thought about buying this as my third. I looked at the screen shots to find that it is just like the old X-men arcade game. That was a great game, and I remember playing it with my friends. Now that I have found this game, I definitely will be ordering it. As soon as I get it, I will write another review. So for now i'm giving it 4 stars. From what I can see so far, this game will be great!

Dissapointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well, my friend owns a copy of this game. I woke up this morning and started playing it. Within 45 minutes I had the game beaten without having to continue or anything like that. It's very repetitive with a small selection of different enemies. All you have to do to beat the bosses is just stand there and punch as fast as you can, they are not hard at all. The graphics aren't the best, but they aren't lacking; they are just average. If you were into the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle's side scrolling games, you will probably think of this game on a low level because of it's quality. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle games are extremely better than this. I'd only recommend it if you are a die-hard X-men fan, or if you enjoy playing the same game over and over. I discourage older gamers from buying it just for the basic reason that it has no challenge to it at all; it is simply too easy.

This is an awsome game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is an awsome game. If you Buy an Action Replay for your Game Boy Advance you'll be able to play as Night Crawler, Bishop, Cable, Silver Samuri, Appocolypse, Sabretooth, Gambit, Magneto, a Sentinel, Accolyte, Mystique, and many more characters. It's a really cool game and has lots of replay value if you have an Action Replay.

Could've been better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Back in the late 80's, side scrolling beat em' ups like Double Dragon and Final Fight were all the rage. But after mano-a-mano brawlers like Super Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat exploded onto the scene, the side scrollers fell into difavor, mainly due to their stubborn refusal to change. X-Men:ROA is a throwback to pre-Street Fighter chop-socky contests. and while it's enjoyable in small doses, the game suffers from the same repetitve gameplay that plagued its predecessors. Aside from the Mortal Kombat license, the game's bigggest strength is its graphics. All four X-Men are nicely drawn and have loads of animation. Storm, with her bilowing cape and elemental attacks, is particularly imperssive. And the backgrounds, which resenble colored pencil drawings make the game look like a living comic book. The developers tossed in 16 unlockable characters and a head-to-head fighting mode, but they left out a cooperative storyline for some inexplicable reason. Buy this if you are a huge fan of the X-Men, but most gamers will want to go somewhere else to get their kicks, punches, and bodyslams.

Painfully formulatic

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Of all the video games over the years that have ever graced the X-Men license, only a few have ever been anything above average. Activision (which has done great things in video games with the Spider-Man license) attempts to make a great X-Men game for the GBA, but the results are just below lackluster. You get to play as Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, and Rogue and you go through each level taking out hordes of generic looking enemies. First off you'll notice the fantastic looking graphics which are so fluidly animated they look like they were taken out of the comic, but longtime fans of anything X-Men will wonder why the developers decided to have Cyclops, Storm, and Rogue prance around in their older (and let's face it, lamer) costumes, while those same fans will wonder why Cable is an enemy. Other bosses include Sabretooth, Blob, and eventually Apocalypse; most of the bosses move around the same and you can use pretty much the same strategy to beat them. The controls are ok, but the formulatic "run from one side to the other while knocking out hordes of the same enemies without anything else to do" theme of the game will get more and more boring every time you play it. Instead of this game, I would have loved to see Konami's old X-Men arcade beat 'em up(it had Wolverine, Cyclops, Dazzler, Colossus, and a few others, and was actually fun) brought to the GBA. All in all, this is worth a play or two if your a fan of anything X-Men, but other than that this game is rather shallow.

A Feeble And Careless Attept

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I got this game today and I was pumped. However, that enthusiasm died. The graphics are o.k., the play is repeatitive and the moves are simple. So, to put it bluntly, IT SUCKED!!!

could have been the greatest game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

if GAME BOY ADVANCE developers had decided to let KONAMI port the original X-MEN arcade game to the GBA, we would have been in heaven, the arcade original being a superb scrolling beat em up with so much action to it, now, lets take 4 X-MEN and put them in a world were they have to fight friends as well as foes, CABLE, GAMBIT, BEAST, you name it you fight it?? weird stuff, the gameplay [is disppointing], instead of ACTIVISION using an engine like CAPCOMs final fight, they use an awful jerky and awkward system, do not choose CYCLOPS whatever you do, the sound effects are so non existent its hard to tell whether you are doing any damage, CYCLOPS also looks like he has a weight problem! choose WOLVERINE and its worth a go, his moves are simple but at least it feels right! DONT BUY IT! its a waste!

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