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Withtout a doubt, the single most bug-ridden game I've EVER played

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: April 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Okay...it's like this: I've been playing video games for almost 20 years now, and X-Men Legends II has secured a special place in my hall of shame as the most problematic, bug-ridden game EVER. And this is a darn abominable shame, because the game itself is actually a lot of fun.

First of all, the game loves to crash on me when I least expect it. When I visit Beast/Forge's shop and choose the "see equipment" option, the game will sometimes kick me out to the title screen! And if I haven't saved my game in the last 5 seconds, bye-bye unsaved progress! The same thing tends to happen when I'm using the Danger Room computer, or using an Xtraction Point to change my team: the screen will go black, and I'll find myself back at the title screen.

The Hero Stash is another source of frustration. You're allowed to keep up to 60 things in there, but I've discovered that anytime I exceeded 15, all the equipment from Beast/Forge's shop that was for sale would just vanish. That's right; Beast/Forge would suddenly just stop selling stuff to you (except for potions and the Grab Bag), and I could not get the shop to start offering stuff again, even after I got rid of some stuff from the Hero Stash.

Also, you probably noticed that defeated enemies and breakable objects often cough up tech bits and, more rarely, armor and equipment. I've noticed that all this stops right around the end of Chapter 2: I can't get any money (tech bits) from that point on, no matter how many enemies I beat! How the HECK am I supposed to buy potions and armor and equipment without any money?

All these bugs have screwed up my save data permanently several times already, and I've had to start the game over from the beginning each time, hoping that I can do something differently each time to avoid the bugs, but no such luck. Frankly, I'm now sick of trying.

What was Raven Software doing with this game??? Did they even have a Quality Assurance department? Hey Raven, you guys NEED to come out with X Men Legends 3, and you NEED to address the bugs. That's the ONLY way you'll make up for releasing an UNFINISHED game onto the market. And you guys'd better make sure this NEVER happens again.

Frustrating game with too many glitches

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: January 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I played and enjoyed X-Men Legends I, but I am terribly disappointed by this sequel. I've encountered many glitches in this game. In fact, this may be the worst game I've ever played as far as glitches go. It's as if the developers didn't even care; the glitches in this game could've easily been detected and fixed if they had tested it adequately. For a game with so much hype and anticipation, there is no excuse for putting out a shoddy product. I know I'm in the minority here, because most people on the web are enthralled by this game because it does have many playable characters, mutant powers, etc. And the game mechanics are reasonably sound, but for me the game is frustrating and unplayable. I personally don't like playing a game with so many bugs. I wouldn't pay more than $10 for this game because the only thing it's really good for is to be able to run around and bash things with X-Men skins. There are many other games out there that are more polished and are a better use of your time.

Too Many Glitches

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: October 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It seriously hampers your overall enjoyment of the game. The game freezes up when you have too many items, it stops dropping items when certain conditions aren't met, etc. It's just a nightmare...

DO NOT buy this game; save your money for the upcoming Marvel team-up game (the exact name escapes me right now).

Poor Design Quality Ruins What Could Have Been a Great Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

What makes X-Men Legends II so frustrating is that there was so much potential here, yet poor production quality ruined what would have otherwise been an incredible game. As with many games based on movie or comic book franchises, this game relies more on name recognition and an already established fan base than on the actual performance of the game itself to attract buyers.

I was hoping to see an improvement over the graphics on the original X-Men Legends, but it looks like the developers used the same engine. One improvement over the original is that characters now have many more skills to choose from. But even this feature's benefit is curtailed by the fact that many of the skills available to the characters are practically useless.

The main complaint I have with X-Men Legends II is that it is utterly unplayable once your characters reach a high level. For some reason, the game constantly freezes once your characters start to approach level 70. This glitch is so rampant that the game is totally unplayable on higher levels. This is frustrating, because once you've invested several hours into building up a powerful team of characters, you want to enjoy the fruits of your labor, yet the game's faulty design won't let you.

Overall, it's still a fun game, and that's what makes the serious design flaws so frustrating.

Don't buy this. DO NOT buy this.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: July 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is one of Marvel's more pathetic attempts at a video game. And probably one of the worst games out there as far as PlayStation2 is concerned. Why? Because while the gameplay and controls are fun, the actual game itself is filled with glitches, sub-par graphics, and some levels are almost impossible to get through unless you have a stroke of luck and find out what exactly you are supposed to be doing.

Like Marvel? Like the X-Men? Well buy the game based on the movie, instead of buying this. This is just pathetic. Even the first Spiderman game was better.

Not much fun

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this to play with a friend, but we gave up on it after an hour or so. I was hoping for a good beat-em-up game with some neat moves, but X-Men Legends II can't decide whether it wants to be an RPG or action game. Sometimes an action RPG can be fun, like Oblivion. But XMLII gets overly mired down in the crappy story. You wind up in a pattern, fight 10 or 20 enemies, then it goes to cut scenes about the uninteresting story. I really just want to beat stuff up. You're constantly finding items and powers that you're supposed to intelligently distribute, we always just used "auto distribute" or whatever and kept on going. After all, it's no fun sitting around watching the other play distribute powers and items.

The graphics aren't very good, the characters are fairly small, the alien planet scenery isn't that interesting. Sounds were decent.

Overall if you're looking for an action game with RPG elements and a constantly intruding storyline, this game is for you. Otherwise pass or just rent it.

A great idea reduced to a miserable atrocity

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Yes, this game is sadly an atrocity. Anyone who has played the first X Men LEgends would know that the game is actually very fun. Legends 2 is no different. However, there are far too many glitches in this game. Activision should've had a recall. This is just poor programming and testing on the part of Activision. I'm not sure if they would acknowledge it, bu there are far too many glitches. IE: Once you get into hard mode, the game constantly freezes. This is inexcusable. Equally appalling are the other bugs. Jean Grey's Mental Mastery (increases damage done by mental power attacks) does not do anything. Putting points into the last 4 bars of her Dark Phoenix skill doesn't raise its effectiveness by any means.

Overall, this is a great game. It has the potential to be very fun. However, the crashing occurs so constantly that you just can't ignore it. I hope Marvel Ultimate Alliance would be much better.

Fun Game, Bad Glitch. Here's how to fix the freezing glitch!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 29 / 30
Date: October 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is absolutely excellent. There's not much that I can add that hasn't already been said - but there is the major problem of the freezing glitch that can cause SERIOUS aggravation. I was up to level 4 and the freezing got to such a bad point, the game wouldn't load anymore and I had to restart from scratch.

From checking online, and trying it myself with a new save file, it is possible to get through the entire game without a single freezing glitch. There is a "Hero" chest where you can store items that are not in use (armor, gloves, belts, etc....)

Do _not_ fill up this chest and have your active characters carrying 20 items at the same time. Apparently this is what causes the freezing. I kept my items in the hero chest below 30 and the next time through the game, there was no freezing whatsoever.

The symptoms appear to be when you attack a glowing character, or try to pick up an item from a weapons cache, these are the most common points that the freezing occurs.

If this is the case, reboot the game and try cleaning out your hero chest items to below 30, and drop about 10 items out of your active party. That should clear up the problem.

I'd rate the game higher, but this is a glitch that definitely should have been caught during quality control.

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!!

I gave it a shot, and it shot me in the face

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: March 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

When I started playing Rise of Apocalypse, I wasn't initially enthralled with the gameplay. I could see the potential for repetitiveness, and I have to say that I was underwhelmed by all of the characters included here. Some nice inclusions are Sunfire, Iron Man, and Deadpool, but honestly who really cares about Scarlet Witch and Grizzly? When the boss for the first level is Grizzly you realize that they scraped the bottom of the barrel for random cameos by obscure characters. That doesn't mean I didn't appreciate the good inclusions. Sunfire became a staple of my chosen four, because his energy attacks and flying ability come in very handy.

Activision tried to base this game off the Age of Apocalypse storyline, but the only real reference to this is Sugarman. He mentions briefly that he comes from an alternate future in which Apocalypse rules most of the world, but aside from that you don't get much. In fact, there's not much in the way of story overall. When I play an action game like this, I want the repetitive smashing to be broken up with a compelling story. Give me a reason to keep bashing stuff. Without motivation, I can think of a dozen other things I'd rather be doing than engaging in mediocre gameplay. The first X-Men Legends had a cohesive story to it. The events of one mission directly led to the next, and so on and so forth to the last battle against Mastermold, giving the gameplay a sense of urgency: I need to save the world, and what happened in previous levels had a direct effect on why I am here at the end. Rise of Apocalypse feels like a series of unrelated events hastily stapled together to create something like a plot: over here is the first thing we need to do to defeat Apocalypse, now over here is the second thing we need to do, and over here is the third, and now we've defeated Apocalypse. Lackluster, to say the least.

Replay value for me was virtually non-existent. You can play through the game again with newly unlocked characters, but I didn't really have the urge. If the game included a reason why Tony Stark decides to lend Iron Man's help to the cause, or why Deadpool decides to become involved, it might be a bit more entertaining. As it is, you can play through on a higher difficulty to make the game more interesting, but higher difficulty in this case means about ten times more bad guys who are about 100 times harder to kill. You will get your ass kicked over and over again and have to revive lots of teammates. Add to this the insane number of bugs you have to kill in the first mission, and it makes for a miserable gaming experience.

Now let's talk about the glitches. There's a really big one that makes you have to start over again from the beginning. At a certain point New York, the game freezes up. Every time you try to start the level over again, it will freeze in roughly the same spot. There is no way around this unless you know the secret. Make sure your party is carrying a very small number of items, like belts, gauntlets, and gloves. If they're carrying too many, the game can't handle it, and it freezes up. I didn't know this at the time and wound up having to play the entire game over again, having the game freeze up again in the same spot, and eventually finding help online. Irritating, to say the least.

Overall, the game is decent, but that's only because I'm a fan of the X-Men and I liked having Sunfire available as a playable character. I wouldn't reccommend anyone buying this game. If you want an average gaming experience, then by all means rent it. I highly reccommend you avoid this game, though, as there really are many other wonderful things you could do with your time and energy.

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