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This game is fun.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I liked the graphics and the characters. Overall great game for GBA

Okay, but I prefer the computer X-Men games, thank you very much.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I liked this game alright. I don't have it anymore, but when I did it was an okay game. The graphics were good enough, and so were the moves and characters. I loved the fact that Apocalypse was the big bad final boss. He is my second favorite X-Men villain next to Magneto(who is also in this game)There are many other cool bosses, and you can play as Wolverine, Rouge, Cyclops, or Storm(all of whom are in my top 10 favorite X-Men members)Unfortunately, there are 3 major things that make this game get pulled down to just being OK. (1. The game is too easy. You just play as Wolverine and slice and dice your way through all the enemies and bosses. (2. The bosses have cool attacks, but I have seen much cooler out of other bosses, including other game versions of them. (3. The music may be good, but some other sound effects are sort of cheesy. Overall, all of this averages out and makes this game an OK buy. If you love the X-Men to pieces & you desperately need a game dedicated to them, then this is for you. Otherwise, get something else. This one may be alright, but there are others that are better. Quite a few, as a matter of fact.

A Feeble And Careless Attept

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I got this game today and I was pumped. However, that enthusiasm died. The graphics are o.k., the play is repeatitive and the moves are simple. So, to put it bluntly, IT SUCKED!!!

This is an awsome game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is an awsome game. If you Buy an Action Replay for your Game Boy Advance you'll be able to play as Night Crawler, Bishop, Cable, Silver Samuri, Appocolypse, Sabretooth, Gambit, Magneto, a Sentinel, Accolyte, Mystique, and many more characters. It's a really cool game and has lots of replay value if you have an Action Replay.

Arcade

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am a 13 year old gamer and I have recently purchased a Game Boy Advanced SP. I have two games and thought about buying this as my third. I looked at the screen shots to find that it is just like the old X-men arcade game. That was a great game, and I remember playing it with my friends. Now that I have found this game, I definitely will be ordering it. As soon as I get it, I will write another review. So for now i'm giving it 4 stars. From what I can see so far, this game will be great!

I guess at least it earns one star (maybe)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If I could give it a half-star, I would. Why are the x-men in the old costumes like its the 80's or something? The play is repetative and boring. The bosses are easy to beat if you repeat the same move on them. All in all I wish I could take it back to the store, but the return policy says I cant get my money back. Sigh

Painfully formulatic

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Of all the video games over the years that have ever graced the X-Men license, only a few have ever been anything above average. Activision (which has done great things in video games with the Spider-Man license) attempts to make a great X-Men game for the GBA, but the results are just below lackluster. You get to play as Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, and Rogue and you go through each level taking out hordes of generic looking enemies. First off you'll notice the fantastic looking graphics which are so fluidly animated they look like they were taken out of the comic, but longtime fans of anything X-Men will wonder why the developers decided to have Cyclops, Storm, and Rogue prance around in their older (and let's face it, lamer) costumes, while those same fans will wonder why Cable is an enemy. Other bosses include Sabretooth, Blob, and eventually Apocalypse; most of the bosses move around the same and you can use pretty much the same strategy to beat them. The controls are ok, but the formulatic "run from one side to the other while knocking out hordes of the same enemies without anything else to do" theme of the game will get more and more boring every time you play it. Instead of this game, I would have loved to see Konami's old X-Men arcade beat 'em up(it had Wolverine, Cyclops, Dazzler, Colossus, and a few others, and was actually fun) brought to the GBA. All in all, this is worth a play or two if your a fan of anything X-Men, but other than that this game is rather shallow.

Could've been better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Back in the late 80's, side scrolling beat em' ups like Double Dragon and Final Fight were all the rage. But after mano-a-mano brawlers like Super Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat exploded onto the scene, the side scrollers fell into difavor, mainly due to their stubborn refusal to change. X-Men:ROA is a throwback to pre-Street Fighter chop-socky contests. and while it's enjoyable in small doses, the game suffers from the same repetitve gameplay that plagued its predecessors. Aside from the Mortal Kombat license, the game's bigggest strength is its graphics. All four X-Men are nicely drawn and have loads of animation. Storm, with her bilowing cape and elemental attacks, is particularly imperssive. And the backgrounds, which resenble colored pencil drawings make the game look like a living comic book. The developers tossed in 16 unlockable characters and a head-to-head fighting mode, but they left out a cooperative storyline for some inexplicable reason. Buy this if you are a huge fan of the X-Men, but most gamers will want to go somewhere else to get their kicks, punches, and bodyslams.

More fun to play with friends.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

My brother and I, both being fans of the X-men, both bought this game. I admit, the gameplay does get a bit repetitive, but I still liked the game a lot. You're given different slots to play with, and your progress is saved, so you're not stuck writing down codes or replaying the same beginning levels when you realize that you lost the codes you spent time writing down. As you progress through levels you're able to put more points into your character's stats. This actually takes strategy (do you make your character's special more powerful or do you give yourself more strength or life?) The controls are not very hard (a very small learning curve), and if the gameplay gets too monotonous, change characters.

I'm all for complex games with deep storylines and diverse gameplay, but occassionally I need something where I just get to beat bad guys up. Let's all face it: That's what the old side scrollers were especially good for.

All that being said, the game really shines when you get to play with a friend. You can help one another through the levels (although it doesn't save.) No matter what you have against this game, you have to admit that it is fun beating up Apocolypse as your favorite X-men with your friends. If you already own the game and haven't tried playing with someone else, I really recommend it. Games are always more fun when you have someone to share them with.

could have been the greatest game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

if GAME BOY ADVANCE developers had decided to let KONAMI port the original X-MEN arcade game to the GBA, we would have been in heaven, the arcade original being a superb scrolling beat em up with so much action to it, now, lets take 4 X-MEN and put them in a world were they have to fight friends as well as foes, CABLE, GAMBIT, BEAST, you name it you fight it?? weird stuff, the gameplay [is disppointing], instead of ACTIVISION using an engine like CAPCOMs final fight, they use an awful jerky and awkward system, do not choose CYCLOPS whatever you do, the sound effects are so non existent its hard to tell whether you are doing any damage, CYCLOPS also looks like he has a weight problem! choose WOLVERINE and its worth a go, his moves are simple but at least it feels right! DONT BUY IT! its a waste!

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