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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...

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.

Better than the alliance

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

In my humble opinion, the X-Men doesn't need an alliance with other marvel characters to defeat any enemy, why? if you've played Ultimate alliance i think that you've used wolverine, or at least you've it in your actual party of marvel ultimate alliance.

I used to read the X-Men a lot when i was a teenager and when i went to college, well, this is game has it, the same feeling when you read the comic book, it is as good as Wolverine's revenge and i can assure you it has a lot better plot than Ultimate Alliance.

The game is like Champions but with amazing cell shading graphics. The game is based on the comic books and not the movies and is a great addition to anybody's superhero game library. The game can be played in 1, 2, 3 or 4 players, and if you're playing your game alone and somebody comes in and wants to join, you can simply do it pausing the game and adding the control to the second, third or fouth player immediately and if that friend or family member has to go or simpley doesn't want to play anymore, you can pause the game and simply turn off the control to the player.

The game is long enough to keep you busy and fun enough to keep you playing.

Compared to the first game this has better graphics, better sound but equally good storyline, my game didn't freeze as the other people in this page and it works perfectly.

The good thing of this game is that you can switch from one character to another depending the situation, and you can use celebrities of the X-Men comic books, like Magneto or Toad.

If you like the X-Men or the marvel universe and action RPG games this is your kind of game.

If you've had a dissapointment as i did with marvel ultimate alliance and you think the game is over rated but you're afraid that this game will be a big dissapointment also, think again, this game is a lot better that the alliance, i can assure you that.

Hope this helps.

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.

love the xmen

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: October 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

JUST AS GREAT AS THE FIRST ONE, THE STORYLINE IS MORE INVOLVED. THE BEST THING IS THAT YOU CAN PLAY AS THE BROTHERHOOD LIKE JUGGERNAUT AND MAGNETO. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS GAME FOR ALL THOSE WHO LOVE COMICS.

EXELLENT GAME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the greatest games of all time, and is a HUGE improvement on the first game if you ask me! I mean here you find health packs every 5 seconds I think they maybe even made this game TOO fun! I have beat it about three timesand I still think it rocks! Definitely worth 20 bucks!

this game totally rocks!!!!!

Video Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I don't play many video games, especially roll-playing games. This one was fun and I did get hooked. I had to finish the game. There are several characters to choose from and up to four players can play at once. The storyline was interesting. Also with cheat codes, you have more power.

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.

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

Excellent sequel, some very minor problems

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 15 / 19
Date: October 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

X-Men Legends was a breath of new life for those of us sick and tired of waiting for a decent adventure game starring everyone's favourite cast of mutants. It was fast, fun, big and challenging, and contained more in-references and playable characters than you could shake a stick at.

X-Men Legends 2: ROA takes that formula and tweaks it somewhat, meaning that this is a sequel that essentially delivers more of the same addictive gameplay, bucketloads more of the same straight-from-the-comic-book atmosphere, and a few minor improvements and disimprovements over the original.

The plot is expansive and kind of perfunctory: Apocalypse is back and now the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (the baddies from the original game) must now side with the X-Men to remove the threat of immediate worldwide annihilation. This cunning stunt allows you to have a cast of sixteen selectable muties from the get-go, and this is a pretty even blend of both X-Men and BOEM characters alike. Some are strong from the beginning and only get more powerful as they level up (the ubiquitous Wolverine, Jean Grey, Colossus), some of the new characters are excellent too (Scarlet Witch, Bishop, Juggernaut and Sunfire), and some of the characters from the first game that you might not have used as much because of their clunkiness have been improved out of all order - for me, this was Rogue and Gambit, now (thanks to some serious design improvements) a formidable team.

There are still some dud characters, though, and these come in the shape of Magneto and Toad. Shame, but what can you do? You don't *have to* use them, so it's not all bad.

The only drawback about all of this is the fact that a huge, huge portion of the Marvel cast roster (and even that from the first game, which was by no means exhaustive!) is missing, and while newbies like the really excellent Scarlet Witch and Sunfire more than hold their own, you can't help but miss the presence of the more usable chatacters from X-Men Legends, such as Beast, Psylocke and Magma.

A nice touch, though, is if you assemble a team of heroes with matching secondary costumes (e.g. Age of Apocalypse), you automatically get a stat increase. Similarly, it's now much easier to distribute the stat points, with an Auto option that does the calculation for you, allowing you to focus in on the gameplay. Another HUGE improvement is the economic system of the game, Tech Bits are now in far more plentiful supply and items are relatively cheaper.

There are some drawbacks: The items system is still as rotten as ever, if you pick up too many things it's back to the Base to unload some in the Hero stash boxes (think Biohazard). But since this box is not bottomless, you need to sell the weaker items to Forge, too. This doesn't sound so bad in theory but it does break up the action pretty badly, and since the rare items are so very useful you do need to keep a close eye on what you're selling, equipping and moving about.

Basic gameplay remains pretty much the same, if overall a little easier than in X-Men Legends. It's fast, fun and very satisfying, and while there are some glitches here and there, the plentiful amount of Save points throughout means you never really spend too much time backtracking.

Maps are a pain; there's no way of viewing one overall map without loading up a Map sub-screen, so you do get lost sometimes. Similarly, loading times (as before) remain a second or so too long mid-mission, making leveling up and shuffling things about a bit more of a chore than it needs to be.

Graphics are much improved, though, with more detailed and colourful powers, costumes, enemies and stunning backdrops than before.

All in all, a sequel very worthy of its great predecessor, X-Men Legends 2 deserves a place on the shelf of all action-adventure game fans. Recommended.

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