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Excellent Fighting Game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

X-men Mutant Academy is a pretty cool 2-D fighter with with 3-D rendered characters. It plays a little bit like the Street Fighter Series but its gameplay is excellent. Each character has their own strengths and each are pretty fun to play with. Each character has a variety of Super Moves (some of which I am still trying to figure out). The characters are Storm, Wolverine, Cyclops, Gambit, Phoenix, Beast, Sabretooth, Mystique, Toad, and Magneto. Although the number of characters you can use is small, its still a very fun game to play.

The graphics are excellent. There are different scenes behind every battle such as the Danger Room, the Bayou..aka Gambit etc. Each character has very cool voice overs which are played at the end of each battle.

Bottomline, where this title is not as stong as the Tekken Series, it is still a very fun fighter for the Playstation! Its excellent graphics, sound and gameplay will have you coming back for more and more. This one is well worth a purchase!

best fighting experience since X-Men: children of the atom

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

a great game, special moves are awesome, costumes are awesome, sound is cool, one word BUY

Pretty Good

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a respectable effort by Activision at a fun X-Men themed fighting game. The characters look great but lack some of the speed of other fighting games on the market. I was personally disappointed in the limited cast of 10 characters (Cyclops, Phoenix, Storm, Wolverine, Gambit, Beast, Toad, Mystique, Sabretooth, Magneto). Colossus? Shadowcat? Nightcrawler? Iceman? It seems like these and other characters could have been added for more variety. Also disappointing is the stages. There are only 10 and they repeat themselves. For instance, you always fight Cyclops in the Danger Room, always fight Storm in the Morlock Tunnels, etc. The fighting 'ladder' is also no fun. No matter who you play, you fight the computer in the same order, with the same backgrounds. Bor-ing! On the flip side, there are some things which keep it fun. One is the alternate costumes (including the movie versions of each character). Another is the Cerebro Mode, which unlocks various behind-the-scenes and animation sequences. I especially like the unique taunts from each character. Gambit: "Dealer wins, not yo' day!" Phoenix: "Your mind is weak." Mystique, "Lick my boots." Etc. Each of them have a few taunts and victory trash talks which keep things fresh, at least until you memorize them. This game would be more worthwhile with more variety: sequence, characters, backgrounds. However, this is a pretty good start and maybe a sequel will have more juice.

it's alright

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

After I saw the movie I was in a real "X-Men" mood so I went out and bought this game. When I started playing it I became very frustrated. It doesn't show you how to do any of the moves in the instruction book (not that I ever need an instruction book to learn moves). To do moves in this game it takes a lot of practice. So to find out how to do anything with a character you have to go into this boring and frustrating training mode. Once you master a character it is then easy to complete the game. But then, if you want to play another character, you have to go back into the training mode all over again. The endings in this game are very short and unsatisfying. The good thing is that after you have beaten the game with everybody you can view each ending linked up together and then it makes a lot more sense and you get more satisfaction. There's lot of things to unlock in this game but no codes. No secret characters. The worse part about this game is the gameplay. I recently went back to play this game after not playing it for about a year. I found out that I had forgotten to do all of the moves. So rather than go back into training mode I just turned it off and put it anyway. I'll probably never play it again.

Where's Rogue???

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Okay, there's my first beef. Rogue was not in the game, yet Toad Was. You get to choose between two different comic book outfits and the characters movie outfit. Granted Gambit and Beast weren't in the movie, but they each get a rendition of the movie costume - Gambits traditional with a black trench coat and Beast gets a pair of pants. Some characters's second outfit is exactly the same as the first, just a different color. Which brings me back to - Why isn't Rogue in this game. They don't do much for the fact that Jean Grey, Storm and Magneto can fly. They just float off of the ground a bit. Mystiqu is available in her movie costume - making her look lizard like, the the comic version complete with the red hair. The voices are all good except Charles, and the endings are two short. But over all, if you like the X-men, it's a great game.

Great X-men Game...OK fighting game!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I was really excited to get this game because I love both the X-men movie and 3D fighting games. There are a lot of features and extras to unlock in the "Cerebro" mode, but for the work you have to do in order to earn some of them, it can be rather disappointing. You can unlock scans from the comic books by beating 10 rounds in survival mode using one of their costumes. But in order to unlock pictures from the movie you have to beat 20 rounds with a character in their movie costume. This gets very frustrating because 1. they give you no indication of how many rounds you have beaten until your game is done, and 2. the pictures you unlock are awkward and some are just cheesy cut-out and paste pictures, not high quality pictures you would see in a magazine review or at the x-men movie website. In fact I think the only worthwhile unlockable secret in the game is after you have beaten the arcade with all 10 characters you receive a "story style" FMV. Basically it links the FMVs you see at the end of the arcade mode together in a pretty cool way (but it doesn't actually tell a story). So basically if you are looking for a great way to play and fight as your favorite comic book heroes I recommend this game. But if you are only looking for a good fighting game to play for several hours and unlock tons of cool extras I think you should try another game. P.S.: I do recommend getting the strategy guide or downloading one of the 'net, because the manual is pretty terrible at describing your moves.

Lacks Characters and Replay Value

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

In X-Men: Mutant Academy, we get a good fighting game filled with tons of moves for every character. Several of them actually slow down while performing certain attacks, making the game look like the Matrix in some areas. That was impressive. The fighting is easy to learn, and soon you'll be pulling off all sorts of cool counter-attacks and ways to knock your opponent to the ground. And to add to this, they say catchy lines after defeating an opponent.

You can unlock certain features such as comic books and new costumes. Also, you can watch the film's movie trailer. As you progress, other characters can be unlocked, along with intro. scenes. However, with only 10 characters, the game gets old too quickly, unfortunately.

After beating the tournament with the players offered--which doesn't take long--you seem to grow bored with it. However, there is a two player mode, so you can battle your friends. When fighting, though, the computer is not all too difficult, so you can beat the game in a short amount of time. But for the price offered on amazon.com, it is well worth it, especially if you're an X-Men fan. Overall, this earns 4 stars because of the great graphics, moves, and how you can learn them within minutes unlike other fighting games. But it can't get the 5 stars that it should have because of lack of characters and replay value.

My General Rule.. Never buy a movie based game...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

But there are exceptions to every rule. The lack of a true combo system makes the fighting seem somewhat sluggish, especially since most moves take very little damage. But the characters are easy to use with a little practice, and before long you'll have mastered your favorite mutant. The Acadamy mode is a great addition to allow you to learn your character, but interpreting what it is telling you can sometimes be a task. (Shows a back arrow, forward arrow, then square; but doesn't tell you to charge back then press forward :(

But dispite the obvious drawbacks, this is a really good game and not as frustrating as some other titles where the special moves are almost impossible to perform.

The ending taunts are sometimes corny, and get annoying after awhile, but in the end: Great graphics, Good Gameplay, Really Pulls you in, tons of extras to unlock (although most don't effect the game).

In short, Grab a friend and play!

Too Bad

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I was completely looking forward to this game coming out and went to get it as soon as it did. When I popped it into my playstation it was exciting to see the X-men in 3d. However, after a day of playing it, I was bored of it. The game's graphics were a little too boxey for my taste. The characters are not nearly as smooth as Tekken's are. Reverting back to a limit of 10 characters, it's hard to keep alot of interest in this game when most other fighting games are now into the 50's. It's very difficult to keep interest in a game with so few characters. There's nothing ground breaking or different in this game then from fighting games from 5 years ago. With games like Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and Tekken Tag, why would you want this game. It's definitely worth a rental though. Like I said, it's cool to see the X-men in 3d. I got really into it when I started playing, but after a while you begin to realize it's nothing more then an mere "classic" fighting game. To add to all of this, many of moves are really difficult to pull off in the middle of a fight. So, in general, If you're used to games like Marvel vs. Capcom 2, you will not like this game. It's hard to adjust to so few characters. It's too bad, I'm a huge X fan and wished this could've been more then it was.

Xcellent but not Perfect...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This has to be one of the better X-Men games that I've played. The 3-D graphics are beautiful (I especially like the movie and 3rd costume features) and having some of the sounds and voices from carried over from the animated series was a plus. The only serious gripe I had was the control. I came into the game being used to the sharp responsiveness and crispness of Capcom fighting games but was a bit disappointed to see that some special moves don't work unless you do them slowly. Kinda tough in a heated battle. Not terribly awful but it takes a bit of getting used to.

The academy mode is great to get to know the moves and earn secret bonuses but it's highly advisable to turn the sound down unless you want to hear the cheesy adaptation of Professor X saying "Excellent!" seven billion times.

The cerebro function was a great addition to the game. Being able to see the endings without having to waste the time of going thru the game every time you want to see it is a plus. Having to earn the specials in the game keeps the reply value pretty high and because there aren't a ton of special moves to learn, versus is good for the beginner or the advanced gamer.

If you're an X-Fan and would like to mix it up with some of the best known mutants around, look no further! You'll be glad you did.

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