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X-Men Lengends 2: Rise of the Apocolipse

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 16
Date: September 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

In my opinion this is one of the best games out to find today. In the last game you have to stop the evil Magneto from destroying the wolrd (what else is new?). Well now you must team up to defeat Mr.Apocolipse(a.k.a Apocolipse) from well starting up an apocolipse. In this game the X-men must team up with the Brotherhood to defeat the ultimate evil. When you are going through the game there will be boss fights with Sauron, Mr.Sinsister, Sugarman, Deadpool, and more. In the first level in the game YOU start out with Wolverine. The X-men and the Brotherhood are "mutants" so the get super powers. Wolverine's is the ability to heal himself (Healing Factor) and he has retactiable claws made of a substance called adamante. In the previous game you could only be the X-men and you must defeat the Brotherhood. You now have about 7 new moves that you could never do in the first X-men Legends. There are 16 playable characters in this game including Magneto, Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Scarlet Whitch, Juggernaut, Sunfire, Collosus, and more. In the game you can customize your team and now you can even chose what outfit your team wears (in the first one you had to beat thegame and you can only chose 1 or 2 costumes). You can pick for X-men or Brotherhood characters and then fight through the open level area field. You can even customize what moves you want to get good. All the mutants have specail abiltys that only they can use (like Magneto can fly) and you can make one move the most powerful move you have. Another new feature is all the characters have a move that helps out there teamates. Well this game is the best. To enhasing its color and graphics (oh yeah did I metion that?) to making the gameplay better than ever this game is a "legendary" choice.

If you're an X-Man...please stand up.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 14
Date: September 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

X-Men Legends (released almost a whole year ago!) re-vitalized the X-Men video game franchise. In combining its quasi RPG action hybrid with classic video game button mashing it created the most comphresive and (errrr) LEGENDARY X-men experiences. Now with fans begging for more, X-Men Legends 2 is finally here. Worth it? You bet? Legendary? Not so much.

The game is a great, fun, and vibrant experience. Fans of the X-Men with jump right in and assemble a team of their favorite heroes. Folks not familiar with the history might not find this one as readily accessable (due to the lack of any history or set up). The graphics are clear and the voice work and sound effects have been amped up too.

But nothing is perfect. The game does lack the sense of story and purpose that Legends 1 presented so well. The players is thrown into this story with many things assumed and unexplained. Players who completed the first game may be familiar with the set up, but lots of action has happened with huge chunks of the story left unexplained.

While the game does allow you to pick from 15 characters at the start, the rosters seems a bit random and (again) unexplained. The inclusion of the Brotherhood characters is great and works with the some of the previous X-Men stories (in print and film). But the lack of diversity is evident. It would have been far cooler to have everyone from the first one back for round 2 added with the new characters. All the characters have newer and cooler powers to play with and props goes to the programmers for working well with Scarlet Witch's probability mutation.

Another issue is the cluttered presentation. The fonts are a bit same and some of the screens are packed full of info. A cleaner, clearer style would have been far easier to work with in game.

The gameplay works well and is fun regardless of the team you assemble. Fans with of course pick their favorites, but the designers worked quite well with the character roster making it more effective and efficent this time around. Each character will answer the call of other teammates and sometimes using certain characters will cause a different reaction with NPC's that you run across.

Even though the story is a bit weak and the playable characters may seem off, X-Men Legends 2 is still a great game with plenty of stellar qualities. Decent graphics, amped up game play, new items, more characters, and extra ablities all make this a worth while addition.

More Of The Same!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you want a brief summary of this game, read my review's title. It is that simple. I personally wish there would be more enhancements and improvements, but if you loved the first game, you're gonna probably have a blast with this game. Otherwise, read on...

The story is very simple, the evil Apocalypse, one of the comic series' most intimidating villains, is loose. And it's up to the heroic X-Men and terrorist Brotherhood of Mutants to put their differences aside and stop him. If I made this story sound too simple, that's because Activision doesn't seem to really care about its plot. Sure, there are a few beautifully-rendered cutscenes that are simply stunning. However, the same awkward comic-ey graphics are brought back the in-game scenarios...for better or worse.

The graphical style hasn't changed much. The camera is the same, as is the animation quality. The models look a little better, but they're still not terrific. Also, the in-game cinematics look clunky and cheesy. The same pop-up windows that express dialogue are back. And the transitions from in-game cutscenes to the combat is still way too jarring and unsmooth. The mutant powers all look fantastic, though.

The voice-acting is hit-or-miss, just like last time. Patrick Stewart reprises his role as team leader Professor Xavier. The cast from the last game are back, and sound more convincing and less campy. There are some really bad spots, however. Mainly it's the villains who sound pretty pathetic. Sabretooth, Mystique, Omega Red...they all sound terrible. Am I to understand that Activision spent their actor budget entirely on Patrick Stewart?

The music is pretty forgettable, but it's not to meant to be the focus. I do wish some effort went into that area, too.

However, the most annoying feature in this sequel is the level design. I absolutely grew frustrated with it. The game opens up in the murky and confusing Genosha jungles, and well...let's just say that the X-Mansion ain't what you want it to be. Where's the color? Where's the sense of awe and inspiration that the first game tackled? This game looks depressed, which is how you're gonna feel when you realize just how big these levels are. And what is with traversing halfway through a level, only to have Professor X summon you back to homebase, only to have you return to the same land you just came so close to dominating? I don't mind increasing the size of the maps, or revisiting them, because there are tons of secrets and powerups to find. But when the objectives are dull, and the enemy AI seems to be tougher but not smarter, then I just can't understand what's going on with this game.

Multiplayer is also a mixed bag. You see, with one player your teammates are strong, but having multiple players would better utilize your team. But, just two players can be frustrating because you don't always know what's going on this game, and having different opinions on what to explore first is annoying.

The combat is smooth though. I never experienced slowdown in the framerate at all, and the GameCube controller suits the game just fine. In fact, for this game I think it's better than the PS2 and X-Box controllers. The environments are just as destructible, the combos are still here, and beating the crap out of soldiers, creatures, and other mutants is always a blast!

I had fun with this game, and admit that this series is still fun. Characters now have multiple costumes, secrets are even more plentiful, and abilities and powers are even more upgradable. But, I can't shake the feeling that this game didn't try hard enough. Gameplay should always the top priority when trying to create a video game, and Activision got it right. But that doesn't mean that presentation should suffer to the maximum. Instead of making the levels huge, make them either better-looking. Or, give the objectives more depth and texture, so that we players will actually "want" to return, as opposed to "feeling obligated". Going to a marked spot on the map, only to find out that it's going to give me a dull conversation and more enemies to beat up, just isn't enough. The gameplay is just fine, and never needed work in the first place. I forgave the first "X-Men Legends" game's shortcomings because it was a freshman's effort. But I actually would rather play that entry than this one. The levels are more fun and the story doesn't drag as much. After finishing the second game, it's time for this series to evolve!

A Great Sequel to an Even Greater Original

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: October 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Hi, I picked this game up for my 15 year old son who is the biggest X-men freak on the face of the earth and he is obsessed with it. He asked me to type this review in for him since he had school so here you go:
X-men Legends II is a great sequel to a wonderful original game. While the number of characters in the game doesnt increase that much (from 14 to 18) the choices were pretty good. The story follows the combination of the X-men and Brotherhood teams to stop Apocalypse who has not only taken out Magneto's nation of Genosha, but has captured the X-man Polaris and Magneto's son Quicksilver. From the X-men come Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, Wolverine, Iceman, Rogue, Gambit, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Bishop, and Sunfire and from the Brotherhood, Magneto, Toad, Scarlet Witch, and Juggernaut. Along the way Professor X, Deadpool, and the Golden Avenger Iron Man will join your squad. The bosses in this game revolve around those who had starring roles in the Age of Apocalypse epic but with some marvel favorites including, Sauron, Archangel, Abyss, Grizzly, Holocaust, Mikhail Rasputin, Mr. Sinister and of coures Big A. While the cast of playables is great what will really make marvel fans smile is the cast of Non Playable Characters including Emma Frost, Blob, Pyro, Shadowcat, Banshee, Blink, Sabertooth, Mystique, Angle, Beast, Forge, Destiny, Sebastian Shaw, Selene, and Guardian and Vindicator of Alpha Flight.
Gameplay is a major aspcet of this game (duh). You will have four X-men/Brotherhood members on a team at a time, and you will also be able to receive bonus based on who you choose (eg "Forces of Nature" - Sunfire, Iceman, Storm and Magneto +10% to all resistances). Each character has about 16 powers made up of Active powers (ones that deal damage), Boosts (ones that give you extra power), Passives (ones that always exist that dont cost Energy, eg Nightcrawler's "Sword Mastery" which makes all sword attacks stronger")and Xtremes (each character has two, one that pretty much clears out all enemies, and one that boots the team) Each hero also has 2 or more costumes that you can choose from eg
Colossus - Ultimate Costume, Ultimate Costume without Armor, Astonishing X-men Costume, 70's Costume, X-men Legends 1 Xtreme Costume, Greek Colossus Costume, and Age of Apocalypse (compile four teammembers with Age of Apocalypse costumes to get a +100% attack power bonus)
All in all this is a good game. I was dissapointed with the inclusion of the Brotherhood because it took away spots from popular X-men such as Angel, Beast, and Psylocke who should have been involved and the choices for unlockable characters were not very appealing which included Deadpool (a mercenary barely related to the x-men) An Avenger (Iron Man-makes no sense), and Xavier (who after you unlock him can magically walk). But it was good.

While it's not the worst game...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: October 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

You'd do well to avoid the gamecube version of this game, if you have a choice. The graphics are overly compressed so that everything looks blurry, and to make things worse, there is no contrast between your tiny character models and the admittedly detailed background. This can result in you sitting right in front of your TV to tell what's going on. That might be worth it if the game were a little more FUN. The levels and enemies are pretty bland and cheesy. My girlfriend and I were bored by the second level. There are at times weird text formatting bugs in the written dialogue, and some of the spoken dialogue sounds like it comes straight out of a backstage professional wrestling argument. Imagine Macho Man as Sabretooth and you're close. I don't recommend this game if you're over 13 years of age, you'll probably find it dull and sophomoric.

X-men legends 2 still a legend in my book

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

why I give this four it's like the same thing. Why I still love it so much well now people you get to use way more characters,attacks, and two kinds of extreme powers let me talk. Well last time it was just the x-men as we all know, but now you got the brother hood like scarletwitch,magneto,juggernaut, and more even. Beast isn't in this one I know very sad the list is still very varied though. Plus some additional characters who I don't know about some people, but gave me much more replay value. Like one unlockable character who isn't that good, but feels like a mixture of bishop and nightcrawler is deadpool who is very useful, but that's all I'm saying. Well like I said not musch else to say except bigger levels more hours of play time and the new characters I say rent it then decide if you want it I just got it cause I loved loved number one so much it's still a good game though.

ok

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: December 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

the first was a little better in graphics. professer x is not super strpong

Gamecube X-Men Legends 2: ROA

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 17
Date: December 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

My son got this for Christmas - the disc didn't work - comes up unreadable. Amazon quickly sent a replacement with the same results. I am left confused if there are lots of corrupt discs or is there something wrong with the gamecube. All of his other games work with his gamecube. Have others seen a problem with thses disc?

item drop glitch ruins game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: January 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is a great follow-up to the first game but there is a programming problem. There are supposed to be items dropped when defeating enemies or breaking containers but at some point in the game this will inexplictively stop. Without health and energy packs and especailly tech bits (the games currency) play will eventually come to a standstill. Even Forge has no gear for you to buy anymore. Seaching the web I found that this has happened to other players and seemingly at random parts of the game. I suppose PC players can expect a patch but what about gaming platforms? I would suggest waiting to purchase this great game until this problem is resolved.

Fabulous!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I totally love this game! My family and I rented numerous games for our Game Cube in the past 6 months, and this is our favorite! We loved it so much we had to buy it - AND I bought 1 for my 23 year old daughter. This game can be family fun - my 5 year old son plays with my husband and I - we hook up 3 controllers and play as a team! It's totally cool when we hook it up to the big screen TV!

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