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AWESOME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: September 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is just awesome! I played and loved the first X-Men:Legends, and Rise of Apocalypse is even BETTER! The graphics are very cool. They really nailed the lighting in this game. So many more characters with even more awesome powers.

Just like X-Men:Legends, the multiplayer is very good because my friends can join and leave the game at any time. This is a great feature! In other games, once you start a multiplayer game, your friends must stick around all the time.

HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS GAME.

Eh, i've seen better...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: September 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is game is okay, I liked the first X-men legends better. Although this one has a pretty cool storyline. The characters look wierd almost too cartoony. It reminds me of Paper Mario for some reason. The controls are similar to the Fantasic Four game. Why couldn't X-men2 use those graphics. Its pretty much the same thing. I would reccommed buying this now at 50, rent it and when it becomes a "Greatest Hits' then buy it. Don't worry that might happen sooner. X-men legends came out to a greatest hits game 4 months after i bought the first one at 50!!

If you liked the first, you'll love the second

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: September 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

In the newest installment of X-men Legends, you and your x-men team up with the brotherhood of mutants to battle apocalypse, and his horsemen, with full excess to the brotherhoods team of mutant and a few new x-men.

At first glance the game looks and feels very much like the first X-men legends, the sound, the graphics (color, detail, and style, all similar to the first), and power-up systems are all taken almost exactly from the first, but it is the subdtle improvements that make the game worth buying. Most importantly (my personal feelings) is that you can go back to any level you've completed and search for secret areas and missed items.

The game has many new characters, in additon to almost all the orginals (no magma - replaced by sunfire who has almost all the same abilities), all characters have alternate costumes, and a new power-up system lets you customize the three main power buttons, so your not stuck with something like a defensive power you never use (anybody who played the first one knows that the denfensive power wasn't worth using). There are more secondary missions per level, and the area are a little less linear that the first.

This game feels more like an expansion pack than a sequel (not a bad thing), it took everything good about the first game transfered it to this game, and fixed almost every complaint I had. The game was devolped and shipped incredible fast after the release of the first one, so I am still fearful there may be glitches, but I'll just have to wait and see.

If you liked the first game, buy this. If you like the x-men, buy this. If you like RPG/action game, buy this.

8.7 out of 10

Whoa.. this game is awesome.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is even better than X men legends... The characters are even better with more addition.. The special abilities have been given a major boost, and the graphics are stunning... Although, the game looks almost similar to its prequel, I swear this game is worth buying with a whole new environment to play in...

A little of the old...

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

Basic: Take the previous X-Men Legends game and add some good/new features, and the ability to play both Brotherhood and X-Men. Unfortunately they took away some good characters to do so.

Review: In my opinion, the game is good for playing with friends, online, or if you get hooked on trying to unlock or improve your characters. The Normal setting is fairly easy so far and even so, I enjoy seeing what I can unlock for each character.

The cinematics are pretty good, but when it displays cut-scenes, the characters are just like they were in the previous game, very cartoon-ish.

I'd recommend renting the first if you have not yet already, and then getting this game. You can play previous missions, online, etc., so it is very versatile. In the first if you want to backtrack at all, you better have a save game to go to. And if you fail a mission, you better hope that save game isn't that far back in your travels.

It is a RPG due to the fact that you're controlling your characters and their progress/development. And the game is centered around the Team-based combat and combos.

Overall: A good game, this 2nd one will have replay-value, on top of the new features.

...but only if you have the patience to develop your characters into a good team. And if you dont want to control their development, you can put it on "Auto" and the game will distribute their stats accordingly.

Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: September 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It's basically the same thing as the first game but with more mutants and a different story. Which is pretty good since the first game was a lot of fun. What I'm most impressed with is the music in the game. It's just beautiful. So what's with the poor audio on the voice actors? But really, they couldn't improve the graphics any more than that? Everything else in the game is pretty standard.

Graphics: 4.0
Sound: 4.5
Control: 4.0
Fun Factor: 4.5

Sadly, major flaws mar an otherwise exceptional game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 64 / 82
Date: September 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This was indeed a saddening experience. The first X-Men Legends was pretty flawed, but this one was really a blast to play for the most part. I was smelling a five-star rating until the last third of the game, when serious problems crop up to make this game sometimes frustrating, sometimes infuriating...and at this point, unplayable (more to follow).

Pros:
- Most of my criticisms of the previous games have been acknowledged. Character abilities are much more diverse, so they feel much more like unique personalities now. And who wouldn't like playing with Magneto, Toad, or Juggernaut?
- Character training has been improved. In the previous game, the biggest problem was that you get so few ability points that you don't get to play around with some of the less useful, more exotic character skills. Here, characters can be customized to an impressive extent.
- Bishop was always one of my favourite X-Men, not to mention one of the few genuinely black characters (instead of a white character with brown skin, like Storm) in the comics. Great to see him in this game.
- The new "Blink Portal" feature allows you to call up a save point in most places every five minutes. This is an excellent balance between not letting the player save for 20 minutes straight (a major problem in X-Men Legends) and so many saves that the challenge goes right out the window.
- The fighting system has been tweaked, all for the better. Enemies are smarter, and sometimes it's frustrating to fight them, but in this game, it's a good kind of frustrating -- challenging instead of annoying. Whereas I couldn't wait to get the fights over with in X-Men Legends, here they flow seamlessly into the rhythm of the puzzle-solving, exploration, character training, and story.
- Maps are much, much clearer. The Automap feature is absolutely indispensable. And probably in response to accusations that X-Men Legends was too short, they have increased the maps drastically in size. But thanks to the new save system, it's not a laborious bore to explore the world.
- Item collection is more accessible this time around. It's much easier to discover things as you run/fly around the map.

Cons:
- This is the biggest one. I beat the game once and was delighted to see an option I clamored for in the first X-Men: The ability to replay the game using the characters you've been using, retaining your hard-earned abilities and items. But as I played on after beating Apocalypse, the game acquired this incredible tendency to crash. I'm not talking every hour -- I'm talking about loading a game, walking two paces to get to Zealot, and having the game freeze up the minute I defeat him. The game crashed at least 20 times (not an exaggeration) in one morning. Basically, it's unplayable. I don't care what the cause is or what game this happens to; it's unacceptable.
- Some of the Danger Room missions are well nigh undoable. In one Defend mission, you're supposed to protect Havok from harm. He's standing on the other side of the screen and it takes about five seconds to get to him. For the first dozen times I tried this course, Havok died within three seconds of starting the mission, before I even had time to switch characters to activate a healing ability. Did they actually test this?
- They actually put too many items into the game. Variety and flavour are good, but at a certain point, it became too much of a strain to try to distribute equipment over and over.
- Lots of the voice work and cinematics are poorly paced. I don't need eight seconds of the camera panning to the electric trap I just disarmed, thank you very much. They should have allowed us to skip some of these with the Start button.

Overall, I had a very good time playing this game. So it was very frustrating to see that the massive crashing problem suddenly emerge, rendering the game pretty much unplayable for me. X-Men Legends had the same kind of crashes, just not as frequently, and none of my other games has this problem, using this exact same console with the same memory cards, which leads me to believe there's something wrong with the way the game was programmed. Activision really needs to solve this, because no one will ever have the patience to play a game that crashes every three minutes. What a dismaying development to what is otherwise a very fun, well-balanced game.

More Mutant Mayhem

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This was a must have for me. I love the X-Men and to play a game where I can play as one of them is a dream come true. This sequel is bigger with more characters to choose from, more powers to play with, more fighting combos, and more costumes to pick from. I love the skins they put in the game. The classic 70's costumes, the Age of Apocalypse gear, and more. It was a blast to play as Colossus, Storm, Phoenix, and Wolverine in their 70's gear. The task is also giant size with the X-Men and Brotherhood going against Apocalypse and Co. The cinematics are mucho improved from the first game and I personally got a kick of hearing familiar voices as the characters especially Patrick Stewart as Professor X. And they even added more trivia games which are tons of fun but can get a little tricky when the comic book lore gets mixed up with the continuity from the Legends storyline. And yeah, I got a kick out of mixing up heroes with villians, or having an all-woman team, or an all superstrength team. It just adds more variety and challenge to the game.

Though the game is great I did have a few personal gripes. The biggest one being the occassionally "game freeze" or crash. Basically, there are moments in the game when the game just stops so I have to reboot and try again. I don't know if it's the game or my PS2 system or what but it definitely kills the excitement. Thank goodness for that Blink portal so I can save my progress in case the game tanks again. I also wish they included the X-Men costumes designed by Jim Lee in the 90's. And I miss being able to play as Emma Frost aka White Queen. Hopefully, if there is a third Legends installment she'll return to the roster.

Overall, a great game for X-fans everywhere who ever wanted to experience what it's like being a superhero without having to walk around the streets in spandex jumpsuits.

An enjoyable and solid rpg/adventure

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 29 / 29
Date: October 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

X-men legends is a pleasing and well made game based very faithfully on the comics. You have 4 team members of whom you control one from both the x-men and Brotherhood.
Here's what's bad and good.

Graphics - Bright and solid character designs with interesting and detailed backgrounds. Badly lacks widescreen support and prog scan - this is lazy. The cutscenes are good but of a very low resolution.
7/10 - 8/10 if you have a deinterlacer.

Sound - The voiceovers are excellent and really capture the mood of the game. Patrick Stewart voices Xavier just like in the movies, and all the other voices suit the characters perfectly. The music ranges from incidental to very good, standout is the music that plays in the Temple of the Acolytes of Apocalypse.
9/10

Gameplay - You have a large variety of moves to learn, and special powers etc. The range is impressive and much like an RPG you gain levels and purchase points in whatever power you want, eg making Wolverine regenerate faster, or enabling Jean Gray and Storm to fly (Yes they really fly). You can also purchase many items like armour/gloves and belts. Always entertaining there's no real problems here. It's also great to fight as a team in real time, and the enemy/ally AI is decent.
8/10

Extras/Replay - There are 3 levels of difficulty and the last one "Hard" is a real challenge and you can use your saved characters and items with a save game+ feature. There are also 3 extra characters to get, including one which takes you alot of work to get (Worth it though). Only one ending though. There are also some small side quests for extra diversion.

Overall - Worth buying it took me about 20 hours on the first play through and as much again for the HARD setting, including the extra characters. So you get good value from this. A very decent game that I enjoyed playing and would recommened to fans of X-men and anyone who likes an enjoyable action RPG.
8/10

Great game worth buying.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: October 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First of all the other reviewer comments that it's almost unplayable due to the crashes. This isn't true at all, so don't worry about it suddenly quitting on you in the middle of an important mission, although it does sometimes quit after a danger room mission.

Also the voice work is superb and the music perfectly suited to the pace of the game. The characters are varied and despite the racist comment of the other reviewer there is no attempt to make storm "white". You have a great selection to choses from so you won't get bored easily.

Overall a great game, and one which should be part of your collection.

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