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X-Men Legends II

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Fantastic game, great fun for one to four players. Awesome gameplay with a nice array of playable characters. Highly recommended.

Excellent game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

X-Men Legends II: The Age of Apocalypse is a 3d RPG based on the X-Men from the Marvel Comics universe. As the title says the ultimate boss is Apocalypse himself.

Pros
Gameplay is really fun for a while.
Graphics are OK, very appropriate for a comics based franchise.
The AI of your comrades and your enemies is acceptable.
The easy mode is really easy. This is a must for kids and casual gamers.
Alternate costumes, so you can outfit your heroes the way you remember/prefer them.
The selection of playable characters is great.
Having some alternate costumes like Jean's Phoenix and Dark Phoenix is awesome.
The bosses, npc and other cameos are amazing. The developers borrow many things from the Age of Apocalypse Saga, but not the alternate reality plot from the original storyline.
Being able to play with not so mainstream characters like Sunfire, Deadpool and the Scarlet Witch is really nice. Or villains like Juggernaut...

Cons
The item picking/selling system gets really annoying. You'll find yourself teleporting to your HQ many times only to sell the excess of items so you can continue picking more of them.
There comes a time when your characters can't increase level fast enough, it gets boring.
There are many NPCs I'd want to play with: Archangel (not angel), Black Queen, White Queen, Blob, Havok, Shadowcat, Forge, Blink, Dazzler, Pyro and Vindicator.
Psylocke, my favorite x-woman is not a playable character. I'd like to have Siryn, Firestar and Quicksilver too.
Cannonball, Cable, Pyro, Sabretooth are exclusive playable characters of other platforms.
There are too many objects to destroy, so I find myself using Sunfire to blast objects in every room and corridor in search of secrets, it gets tiresome after a while.
Having Iron Man as an unlockable playable characters in an x-men game is odd.
The villains are the most interesting characters from the x-men comics, is a shame I can't play as Mister Sinister, Omega Red, Holocaust, Abyss or Apocalypse.

Playable Characters:
Cyclops
Iceman
Jean Grey
Storm
Colossus
Wolverine
Nightcrawler
Sunfire
Rogue
Bishop
Gambit
Scarlet Witch
Juggernaut
Magneto
Toad
Deadpool
Iron Man
Professor X

OK, maybe most of the cons are not really cons but more of a wish list for x-men legends 3. I've already played Marvel Ultimate Alliance, but that is another story.

X-Men Legends II Rise of the Apocalypse

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It's a great game and arrived in perfect condition.

Fun if you like X-men

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When I ordered the seller said that it would take 4 weeks to receive. I got it in 3 days. Other than the order speed, I liked the changes in skills that X-men ledgends one doesn't provide. However, the story line is lacking. Players that don't know the X-men story should not get lost in the game, but I think that knowing the story makes the game just a little better. I gave it 4 out of 5 star for the overall rating because the bosses throughout the game were too easy while some of the other enemies were harder.

good action rpg

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

good for xmen fans and probably for those who are not. this game is kinda long, lots of items, small improvements over the first.

Good use of licensing, average game overall

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

On occasion I get into what I call "moods": instead of randomly putting in a music CD, it tends to be one specific artist until something new catches my attention. Lately I've been in a big comic book kick, more notably, X-Men, so it makes sense I'd check this game out. Ironically I haven't beaten the first Legends yet but this game has a new story that you don't really need the first one to enjoy. While it is awesome to use X-Men characters, some of the gameplay designs just seem underdeveloped as well as other concepts.

Story: As you can probably tell, the game centers around the Age of Apocalypse storyline as him and his 4 Horsemen capture a couple X-Men and leads an assault on Earth. Professor X's X-Men has to reluctantly team up with the Brotherhood in order to bring down this powerful menace. Their trek will take them to the Savage Land, mutant city Genosha as well as Canada and Egypt.

Graphics: Basically a more nicer looking Legends with a noticeable cel-shaded look to everything. The in-game graphics are okay but nothing that spectacular. Certain environments just look repetitive while the characters aren't super detailed. However the FMV looks awesome and one particular one involving an air-strike is just as good as anything in cinema.

Sound/Music: The music is pretty forgettable. It fits the scenes well but once the thing's over, you can't remember anything about it. The voice acting is kind of a mixed bag from the good such as Xavier to Kitty Pryde to Forge to kinda bad such as Toad, the Ahnuld-sounding Colossus and pretty much every raspy voiced villain in the game.

Gameplay: The game features many playable characters and some unlockable ones. While you do get fan favorites such as Gambit, Wolverine or Nightcrawler(teleporting as never been so much fun), some questionable entries such as Scarlet Witch or Sunfire seem a bit strange. Would've been nice if they included Beast, Angel or Psylocke, or even Kitty Pryde. Instead they're relegated to NPC status, except Psylocke who doesn't appear at all.

You get weak and strong fighting buttons but each characters has special moves. Holding R and pressing either A, B, X or Y, you'll activate a special move such as Wolverine diving with his claws to Gambit throwing his trademark exploding trading cards to Colossus doing a huge punch. Only problem is that some seem a bit too familiar such as the women and some powers just seem kinda lackluster. Is the game difficult? Kind of. Some are simply easy while there will be sections that will drive you insane cause of how cheap a boss is or running out of health packs.

Should you get it? If you're an X-Men fan than definately. If you're not, I suggest giving it a rental first.

xmen 3 no way xmen legends 2 o ya!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: June 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

X men legends 2 is my favorite x men game it has **** grapics (4star) it has awesome fole play and story awesome upgrades and moves the fighting technique is great and too top it all of its a great game for x men fans with many new charecters like night crawler

This games the bomb!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just As Good As The First Or Better!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ok first this game is so much fun, mainly because you have tons of characters to select from the beginning, both X-Men and Brotherhood and of course you always have other characters you can unlock. There is of course the concept art, load screens, comic books, and cut scenes you can unlock after beating a level. You can also go play around in the Danger Room, play the trivia game which you can earn experience points for correctly answering the questions. There are also costumes you can get besides the ones the characters come with. I've already beaten the game on easy and now doing it on normal then hopefully hard, which by the way you can chose what level you want to play at. So all I have to say is...this is an AWSOME game!!!

Like the 2nd movie, the 2nd Legends game disappoints...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

X-men Legends was a, pardon the cliched pun, x-cellent surprise in the 2004 holiday rush. It featured an interesting storyline that was a take off the X-men comics, all out action and brawling, a deep customization system to develop your characters, challenging yet thankfully and a great selection of characters, which also involved using strategy to keep up a well balanced team suitable for each mission.

The sequel features some new improvements. First off, there's some slightly improved graphics. Second, we have deeper customization. Finally, there's a whole new roster of characters, some new, some old, and some bad, such as Magento or Juggernaut. With these features, it definitely seems like the sequel would be an improvement.

Unfortunately, there's a big detractor in this game. It's easy. Over-the-top incredibly easy. I am not joking when I say that it takes about 5 hours to beat this game, even when you make sure to explore every area.

Enemies(particularly bosses) that were challenging foes in combat from the original now can all be dispatched with a few simple blows. Areas that made use of specific powers(such as say, having Iceman build a bridge for the others to cross) can now be passed easily via an extra route or a switch, which pretty much kills having to switch for other members. Extra items to fulfill sidequests can now be found along the main path. With the game only coming out a year after the first, it seems like the developers made all the stuff for the game up, then rushed to put it all in without adding any difficulty whatsoever.

The game is still worth a rental just to check it out, but overall, the original Legends game is just far more satisfying and fun. Hopefully if there's another sequel, it won't be rushed out as quickly.

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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