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Great fun - If you manage to stay awake that long

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Let me start by stating that I am a HUGE X-men fan; I love the X-men Legends games. This port for the psp is an excellent buy, in terms of content. It's just as much fun as the console version (though as others have mentioned, it is a little harder to see on the smaller screen) and the extras (exclusive characters, additional comic book missions, etc) make it well worth the price. HOWEVER, there is one huge glaring issue that seems prevalent in a lot of otherwise great psp games: INSANELY long load times and slowdown. Admittedly, this is primarily a problem with the system itself, not the game (it's not the fault of the developer that Sony, in it's infinite wisdom, gave the system practically no on-board memory), but other developers have found ways around this technical issue with great success. I honestly would've preferred an exact clone of the console version if it meant reducing the lag time; the extras, while awesome, don't make it any more playable. It seems kind of ridiculous that once I hit the pause button and go to the character status screen, I can make myself a sandwich in the time it takes to GET to the character status screen.

If you can get past the load times, and lag (it tends to slow down a bit when there are a lot of powers going off at once, especially if there are a fair amount of enemies on the screen)then this game IS a lot of fun. Nagging technical problems are the only thing that keep it from being a truly stellar game.

X-men games

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I recently purchased this item adding to my collection of Marvel games. After playing the Ultimate Alliance, playing X-men Legends II was a bit disappointing incomparison to UA Marvel. I probably would've enjoyed this more if I had played this previously but I still think the game play in UA is a lot better than this game. And so I still gave it a 3 star.

Allright

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The best part of this game is that you can choose from so many comic book characters to play along in an otherwise static button smasher. I loved using heroes like Ironman, Deadpool, Cyclops, and Wolverine, but the game doesn't do anythign new. You basically choose four characters to use, any of them can be controlled by a human player (which is pretty neat despite the PS2's requirement of an adapter to play more than two players). Beyond that, you have hours of button smashing in which there is no strategy at all and all you have to do is constantly push any button you want until all the enemies are dead, then you move on in an oversized map where you can get lost very easily. The maps are mostly destructable, which gives the game more playability, but I can't get over how easy it was and how little skill it took.

Loved it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played this game for three months straight! Casual x fans and long trerm alike would love this game. i beat it like 8 times before it began to get old.

for X-men fans only

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The best parts of the game are the short movie segments in between the acutal game-play. The game itself is not terribly exciting or fun to play, but if you're a big X-men fan, then it's probably worth a few hours of your time.

What I think

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is very very cool it is just like the pone on playstation 2 but the graphics are a little different but every thing else is the same as the one on ps2.

X-Men 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Excellent game, very addictive, and much replay value. This is a must buy for anyone who owns a psp and who loves x-men. The cheats available for the game also makes worth while to play.

SNIKT! SHKOW! BOOM! BAMF!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: September 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm a HUGE X-Men fan and found this game to be very exciting and enjoyable. The storyline definitely gets props from me. Usually you get a mediocre story coming with a video game, but not this story!! Loved seeing the Brotherhood team-up with the X-men versus Apocalypse, Mr. Sinister, and his army. The cameos were awesome, with some including Pyro, Kitty Pryde, Destiny, Sebastian Shaw, Emma Frost, Stepford Cuckoos, Alpha Flight (James Hudson MacDonald), Ka-Zar, Sauron, Beast, Lady Deathstrike, Blob, Forge, and many others!
The gameplay is the funnest part of the game. I had fun using Cyclops's optic blasts, teleporting Nightcrawler and hearing BAMF!, kinetically charging playing cards, hearing Wolverine go SNIKT!, and smashing Sentinels with Juggernaut and Colossus. This game acts and feels like an RPG too. You can level up, buy/sell X-items, talk to NPCs, and more. The sound was also very enjoyable: Most of the voices matched the character, Patrick Stewart's voice is Professor Xavier, and hearing each character's power sounds clash sounded great.
There are tons of areas with Xtraction points to save your progress. The downside to the game, however, is the slow load times. But the good thing is that each area is fairly large, so you won't have to constantly move to one area to the next waiting for it to load. A nice extra is the online play. So if you know a friend who has this game, call them up and ask them to practice in the Danger Room with you!
This game really grabbed my attention, and I enjoyed it very much.
Highly recommended. 5/5

Great game, but with a serious bug.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: March 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Be warned, there is a serious bug in this game. If you save before the final boss fight, all your saves for this game will be corrupt, and you will not be able to play the final level if you need to load from a savepoint.

The newsgroups warn you to upload your saves to PC, or never turn the game off (use sleep mode). Do so.

Otherwise it was fun while it lasted.

Best portable RPG available

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: January 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am a veteran of gaming. I have played RPGs since Wizardry came out 26 years ago. This is one of the best portable RPGs available. Amazing graphics for a hand held game, deep story line, full voice over cut scenes with the many of the original cast members, complete ability to customize your super heroes and great replay value make this a must have for any RPG fan that owns the PSP. Where does the replay value come from? Playing the game through with different super heroes changes the game. It took three times through the game for me to have a chance to unlock all the characters and bonuses and I thought I looked everywhere. Make sure you play the side missions to get all the bonuses unlocked (don't cheat, what fun is that!), stick with one team through the entire game to really get them leveled up and make sure to take a flyer in your group!

One down side is the load times and occasional pauses in play. This is a result of the UMD format and the massive amount of information that must be loaded into memory. Without that one issue I would have given the game a 5. Definitely a must buy for RPG fans!

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