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Best RPG of the year

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: November 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

X-Men Legends is, hands down, the best RPG of 2004 as well as the first enjoyble X-Men game since the arcade game. The graphics go great with the X-Men universe, the voice-acting is suberb, the gameplay is addictive and fun, and the action is incredible. One of the best parts of the game would probably be the flashbacks, in which you take control of the original X-Men in their very cool vintage suits and battle Sentinals and the Juggernaut (the first 2 flashbacks). If you like RPGs or are an X-Men fan, this game is definately worth the money.

The game we've all been waiting for!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: September 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the ultimate X-Men game. All of the orginal games are there are nothing but ice cudes compared to this! I demand that you play this game!

rent this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: September 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

do not buy this game rent it . it is a great game but the replay value is 1 after u beat it the only thing that changes is that you unlock different uniforms wich equal abought 5 different ones in all u have to start over at the begining back on level one and do it all over again from the begining back at level one

It's about time!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

X-Men and video games have never gotten along together. We get sub-par fighters like X-Men Mutant Academy (PlayStation) and other titles that with you had adamantium claws to tear apart the people who made the game.

Anyway, onwards to Legends!

This game is an action/adventure/rpg... OR, I'd call it an interactive cominc book. Yes, this game is so close to the comic book series that you'll go 'wow- I remember that'! There's even some witty remarks and a nod towards the movies.

But besides being true to the comics (which is VERY important in itself) what does this game have to offer for players? 15 unique characters, all with super cool powers to tear apart, freeze, burn, or blast away opponents with. The controls take about 3 minutes to get used to, and since the first mission is a solo mission, it gives you time to figure them out before you get to use multiple X-Men. Gameplay sometimes gets overwhelming. There can be about eight baddies and your four heroes and for a breif second you lose focus on which person you are and who you are fighting. But that also means that the fights are big burly brawls- exactly what you'd expect from comic book characters. since you can have a group of four mutants, you play as one and AI takes care of the other three- and it does it actually really well. While controlling one mutant, you can call others to help you with one enemy or give commands to the others.

The animation also has that comic book look to it. Players, moveable objects and other points of interest have a bold black outline around them- it doesn't detract from the very detailed backgrounds.

Like many games like this, the camera sometimes gets stuck behind corners and buildings.

This game cannot be quickly blown off as another super hero game- this is a squad-based game...forget the solo web-slinger, Spiderman; this game gives you a whole new way to save the world from certain doom, gloom, and evil mutants.

A Review from somebody who has actually played the game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 70 / 75
Date: October 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is great.

It's a brawler with RPG elements, in the Baldur's Gate: dark Alliance / Champions of Norrath / Fallout Brotherhood vein, but better executed. I would recommend this game before any of those games. The controls are "pick up and play" easy, and the mix of characters keeps things interesting.

One great feature is that I was playing the game during the Juggernaut attack flashback, and my brother came in and wanted to try the game out too. All he had to do to join the game that I was playing in story mode was to pick up a controller. No interruption in my game whatsoever, and the easy to learn controls meant that he didn't screw me up either.

For those who don't like the ultimate costumes, various original costumes such as Wolverine's make appearances in flashback, and they are also unlockable.

The AI characters are pretty smart, and don't do stupid things like charge off into nowhere or run off of cliffs and for this I am grateful. Sometimes AI wolverine even does a better job than my wolverine, which is a high compliment.

I'm not finished with the game. I just beat Magneto (he was a wimp, even though Sabretooth and Mystique were helping him during the fight), so I think that I'm pretty far along in the game. When I'm done, I will probably re-play the game to find all of the the danger room disks that you need to unlock the ultimate offensive attachments of the mutants, but a harder difficulty with fewer dropped potions and stringer enemies would make things more challenging, and the game doesn't have this. However the game does have a "Danger Room mode" where you can play as any character in the game or team of characters and play against any character or teams of characters that you've met (I tried to beat Magneto, Juggernaut, Cyclops, and a Sentinel with a team of wimpy brotherhood marauders, and the result wasn't pretty, so I swiched teams and stomped them up with Juggernaut).

Oh, and the writers knocked the story for this game out of the ballpark. Better than the output of any X-men comic this year.

Possible negatives include the cell shaded graphics, which are good enough for the overhead perspective of the game, but look awful in some game-engine cut scenes. Still, the story is great, and I prefer the good story to the pretty, but useless, cutscenes of a "Baldur's gate 2." Another negative is that this Brawler with RPG elements is less "Brawler" than, say, Kingdom Hearts, but the variety and customizations of you characters makes up for that. Instead of using the same attack pattern on level after level, you can mix characters or level up characters differently for different styles of play. I also like the simpler controls and lack of complicated combos. A final negative is that the game is not difficult, and over in about 20-30 hours. My game is at the 31 hour mark and I'm just about done, but that's the genre standard so the value here on game difficulty and on depth still compares well to similarly paced games.

These are the REAL X-Games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 24 / 31
Date: September 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As an avid X-Men fan I'm always on the look out for the "next big thing", and I don't mean Brock Lesnar. Finally, the game experience that all of you "X-Philes" have been waiting for is here.

If you've seen any of the gameplay movies or screenshots then you know just what's in store for the people who pick-up a copy of this game. Even though it's not quite an RPG in the true sense of the words (i.e. Final Fantasy) there is enough here to make any RPG/comic book fan go nuts. If you've been to any of the review sites or the main game site then you know what to expect from this game. If not, then here's a quick run down:

* Choose from 15 playable X-Men including Wolverine, Cyclops, Colossus, Rogue, Psylocke, Beast,and even Jubilee

* Go it alone in one player and choose a "team leader" to control with the other three team members controlled by A.I. and switch between the four X-Men you have chosen in the middle of gameplay.

* Grab some friends and have them join in for up to 4-player insanity.

* Earn points and upgrade your team to grow in strength, agility, leadership, and mutant abilities (just to name a few attributes) or have the game itself distribute the points throughout the team equally.

* Play bonus trivia, visit other X-Men, unlock hidden costumes from different decades, or take on the Danger Room as you explore the X-Mansion.

* Relive classic battles from the pages of the comics in bonus missions.

* Excellent voice cast, including Patrick Stewart, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Steven Blum (Spike Speigel from "Cowboy Bebop") as Wolverine.

So there you go gamers. X-Men Legends is out in a week and it's gonna be one helluva game. Oh, and why five stars? C'mon it's the X-Men!

Most fun game since Genesis/SNES days...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: October 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I don't know what's with all the negative comments about this game. Is it because they're avid comic-fans who are whining cause they're more caught up in the history of the X-Men than to play the game? This isn't some overly pretty game where it's based more on graphics than fun. Sure I've had a couple of problems with the game, such as getting across a missing bridge, but that's where the save points come in handy because you can change up your team there. Jean Grey and Iceman come in handy for those spots. And as you play the storymode, you unlock more and more characters, all of whom you can upgrade them however you wish by gaining experience.

I have not played a game this fun since the old genesis and super nintendo days. It's like streets of rage or double dragon in a fully 3D rendered environment. This is the game I've been waiting for years, and my only reason to even have a PS2, since all the other games I've bought are sorta fun, yet frustrating the first time, and when you play them again, it's deja vu, and boring. This game has multiple re-play value, and is 4 players. Also, you don't just choose one certain X-Man for the whole game, because the X-Men are a team, and this is a team game, and when it gets down to just one, no one X-Man can do it themself. So pick your 4, and make a go of it, and remember that you can change-up at the save points that are all over in the game.

Plus, as Alison Crestmere aka Magma, who is coming to learn of her mutant powers, you go throughout the Mansion and talk to members of the X-Men over time, and are able to bring about flashbacks which you get to take part in. Remember when Juggernaut first stormed the mansion? Well, think you can stop him in less than 4 minutes, with the original X-Men in original costumes? I wish there were more games like this, where you have a couple of people fighting various enemies at one time while moving on to try and fight end boss at each level. Granted there is no end boss at end of each level, but you are on a mission so you've got to get your tasks done.

One of the Best superhero games ever created

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: October 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It's Grand theft auto Vice City of comic book superhero games. There are tons of characters to gather throughout the game and choose from. Among them are Wolverine, Gambit, Iceman, Beast, Rogue, Jubilee, Nightcrawler to name a few, and they all have a wide selection of unique and powerful moves that can be strengthened with experience. All Throughout the game Professor X sends you on various intense missions as the team while at the same time you play the role of the young mutant Magma as she's dealing with her newfound mutant burden and she's just enrolling in the school and going through danger room training sequences and introducing herself to all the other schools mutants. While on the missions, you (The X-Men) get to fight Pyro, Blob, Mystique, Toad, Avalanche, Sentinels, Morlocks, Magneto and even Juggernaut in one of the sequences where the heroes recall certain historic fights that they've been through and you're left to act them out. Juggernauts rampaging through the mansion looking for Xavier to kill him and he's plowing through everything in sight, tables, furniture, walls, and it's just one of those sequences in games where you actually feel like you're in there yourself running after him. I think the voice of Juggernaut is the same voice of that cigar smoking talking robot from the Simpsons. There are a few entire days worth of gameplay and believe me it is so involving that it will pull you right in and not let go and everything else around you in the room you're in will seem very distant.

Just a few words

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: October 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have not been able to complete this game as of this review, but with what I have played so far, I love it!. The graphics are a little on the cartoony side, but still looking good. The game play leave a little to be desired, especially in the co-op mode. I find the co-op mode needs some work, there are so many places in the game where the co-op mode does not exist and I believe that if you are going to make a game co-op, go all the way not half. Combat is great in co-op mode, the battles are quite involved and rather enjoyable. The ability to use multiple x-men in one battle makes for a great way to fight, if it turns out that a boss or something else is re. The leveling system is great for allowing you to control the development of your heros, you can either develop the combat skills for the front line fighter, or you can lean more toward the mutant power to be able to stand back and support the brawlers with incredable powers. I really like the fact that the fliers are actually able to fly through the game(as long as you have the power), and all the mutants actually have the powers that they are suppose to have, wolverine heals, nightcrawler teleports, rogue drains life. I also enjoy the fact the they have more then just the most prominent x-men in the game. The only part that kinda bugged me was the fact that you keep getting place in single palyer control of a budding X-men and are unable to co-op play during that time. but that all from me for now.

Best Game I've Played in Years

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Seriously, this is the best PS2 game I've played since Wild Arms 3. A lot of games have been well done, but they were nothing like this one. Graphics may not have pushed the limits of the system, but the cell shading helped give the game a comic book feel.

The story was very well done too. The missions themselves seemed to fit together quite nicely, and without and obscure space fillers...except for maybe the Astral Plane missions, but those were a blast since it let you play as Professor X himself!

While the inbetween stages with Magma wandering the Mansion were getting repetative toward the end of the game, it did give it lots of depth. There was a lot to do in the mansion between trivia games, the danger room, and hidden flashbacks courtesy of Beast, Wolverine, and Nightcrawler.

One of the games biggest sell factors was the ability to play with a team of four X-Men all at once, and the developers didn't slack off creating their AI either. The list of 15 plaable X-Men made for an intersting variety of experiences through each level, and it provides a lot of replay value.

The only thing I didn't like about the game was the fact that once you beat it, it's over. I would have liked to be able to play the missions over again inside the danger room with a new team of X-Men, similar to where Magma runs through a replay of the first mission. That would definately mke it easier to unlock all the secrets inside the game.

Though all the good qalities of this game definately outweighed this minor setback, so I'm still giving this game a 5

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