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A good play for X-Fans

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the sort of game that I like to see people making from the X-Men universe. The game focuses on an interesting character and explores his history while still presenting plenty of action and stealth challenges. One of the things I liked most about the game was the different approaches you could take. You can choose to sneak around and kill your opponents from the shadows or you can go all out and attack in a fury of claws. Either way you're bound to have a good time. This is also the only game so far where the player has full access to all of Wolverine's abilites. It was very enjoyable to use his hightened senses and his healing factor was well represented as a steadily recharging health bar. The voice acting and story were well done and there are plenty of fun extras to be unlocked, too. My only real complaint about the game that keeps me from giving it five stars is the extreem increase in difficulity about half-way through. The game suddenly gets really, really hard and some of the mission objectives are unclear. Hopefully future games will keep more of a balance of the appropriate challenges from the first half of the game without the frustrating difficulity of the second half. All in all, though, this is a great buy for X-Men fans and fans of adventure games.

The best there is at what he does

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've noticed something about all the solo wolverine games I've played. All of them have something to do with the Weapon X project. This one, though, is the best. It starts out at the Weapon X base in 1968, and shows Wolverine escaping. Fast-foreward 30 years. The Shiva virus, lieing dormant until now, has infected him and Logan has 48 hours to find the cure.

The implementation of this game is great. The Customizable soundtrack option is(ofcourse) and XBox exclusive, is golden. The implementation of steath, the healing factor, and the multiple costumes is perfection. And the character voices. Mark Hamill does a wonderful job as wolverine, much better than Hugh Jackman. And who better than Patrick Stewart to do Xavier. The dialoge is true to the characters(the line "Security is tighter than one of Jean's outfits" fits so well), all because Larry Hama, former writer of the Wolverine comic, wrote the story. My only complaint is the fact that if this game is comic based (look at logan's conversation with magneto late in the game), why is Colossus there? He's supposed to be dead.

All in all, If you want to BE the best there is at what he does, this is deffinately worth your money.

Wolverine's Revenge

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

X2 Wolverine's Revenge os a wolverines solo adventure where you get to play the ultimate living weapon and world's toughest x-Men member. As the adventure unfolds, you have many choices to make. What tactics will you employ to succeed-Stealth or all-out action? where will use your heightened senses to find clues about how to progress? How will you overcome the tremendous odds facing you in your quest? How best to manage your accelerated healing factor and Feral rages? The choices are all yours to make, WOLVERINE!!

now this Game is cool for Wolverine's Fans or X-Men Fans it is better than Spiderman and one of the best activision Games, but some levels in the game gets harder.

In The Game:
*Unsheathe your your razor-Sharp claws, unleash lethal combo attacks and use accelerated healing powers as you tear into intense action and stealth scenarios.

*Enter the realm of senses, Using your heightened mutant senses to see scent particles and detect heat when tracking enemies.

*face off with Sabertooth, Wendigo, Juggernaut and Magneto, while Proffessor X and Beast Help you search for a cure.

well i still havn't finished the game and i'm Sure you will Have Fun Playing This Game.

A decent game for cheap.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game gets a bad rap that I don't quite understand. The performances by both Hamill and Stewart and great- the storyline is high energy- there are even some fun cameo appearances from various X-Men.

The stealth abilities of this game are its highlight, and collecting dog tags for downed soldiers through this mode is really fun. The levels are very long, though- and sometimes the bosses are unbelievably difficult. Saves are few and far between, making it stressful to replay levels- but overall, this is a really fun game, definitely worth the $10 you'll probably pay for it.

3 out of 5 is plenty good......

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

3 out of five means you get a game that is good wholesome fun with enough phat little touches it keeps pulling you back.
its a bit scary to start with as your thrown in at the deep end having woken from a mad experiment being carried out on our star of the peice James Howlet / Logan / Wolverine. its pretty much action from the start, the entire game balances all out action with patient stealth sections. this is a solid game, the control mechanism is simple enough, visuals are as expected for a next gen game. add to this a very well used lisence incorperating voice talents from the movie ( although Logan is voiced by mark 'luke skywalker' hamill, and he is a good choice) with the right talent from marvel making it feel as true to the comics as it has to be.
Then theres the phat stuff. Logan can use his mutant senses with the pull of a trigger, this allows you to see further, smell people, see warm footprints and most coolly stealth moves!
i dont want to spoil it for you so i'll finish with a simple......its wolverine jim, and thankfully just how we'd like it. HAVE FUN.

oh... nearly forgot xbox extra, listen to costom soudtracks while playing the entire game.....

Good, but not quite what I was hoping for.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The X-Men have been getting robbed of a truly excellent X-men title over the course of the last few years with the last truly great game to feature Marvel's Merry Mutants was Marvel Vs Capcom 2on the Dreamcast, (Recently ported to PS2 and Xbox.) Even in the Playstation/N64/Dreamcast era the X-men were not used outside of fighter games at all. This is the first non-fighter X-men game for a major console for a very long time, and it looked very good, and was very well advertised as well.
I rarely get so X-cited about a game that I preorder it, but I did preorder this one. Mark Hammel (Luke Skywalker) doing the voice of Wolverine... I had to see this! And he was good! Very good! The voice-overs of this game are fantastic, as is the storyline. However this is the best part of the game, and the rest really needs work, and bad.
While this game is light years better than X-men: Next Dimension it still lacks a great deal of polish that a delay of a month or so could have addressed. My biggest complaint being clipping. Clipping is when people and objects fall through walls, and things like that. To me, it's irritating, and an eye sore. The other major complaint I have is the unresponsive buttons, but that may be the fault of the Xbox controller itself. It seems that I have to hit buttons much harder on games that do not implement pressure sensitivity into the game play mechanics to get the characters to do anything. The animation could have also been better; it's pretty choppy, even though the frame rate seems fairly steady for the most part. The cut scenes are very hard for me to watch because the animation is so bad at times.
On the plus side, the camera is almost 100% controlled by the player, and that makes it easy to position just where I want it. The music is very event oriented and works well, and if you don't like it there's custom tracks.
The game is still very fun though; it's just that I wish that Activision had taken more time to polish this title up. Improving the enemy AI, improving the stealth functionality, and button responsiveness, and eliminating the clipping would have helped this game immensely. It has five stars potential, but in my opinion wasn't quite ready for shipment when it shipped. Hopefully there will be a sequel where they will address the issues that this installment has.
As with most of the cross platform games the Xbox version is the best, with GameCube second best (Frame rate issues), and Playstation 2 (Aliasing or jagged edges on top of the clipping problem) looking the worst, but despite its poor animation the character models for this game are actually pretty good, so the differences between the three versions are minimal.

Some major flaws even Logan can't heal...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First of all, let it be known I am a big Wolverine fan (ask me to show you my Wolverine tattoo sometime...), so I may be too critical.

Things I was pleased about -- Mark Hamill (also known as Luke Skywalker, or the voice of The Joker in the Batman animated series)performs the voice of Wolverine...Very good! Patrick Stewart also handles the voice of Professor X. In general, the voice-overs of this game are fantastic, as is the storyline. However this is the best part of the game, and the rest really needs work.

I felt like I was playing a beta version of this game. As others have stated, there is a tremendous amount of clipping. Clipping is when people and objects suddenly fall through walls, get stuck, or inexplicably die. Also, the levels are VERY long, and there is no way to save during a level. So plan on spending 30 minutes navigating a level, and if you die, you are gonna need 30 minutes all over again...

The game is still very fun though -- I wish that Activision had taken more time to polish things up.

I hope there is a sequel planned, so they can address the issues and improve the Wolverine experience...

I WAS WAITING FOR THE BOX 2 BRING SOME GOOD ACTION

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: April 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Out of the 22 games I own on the BOX, I can say this game is definately in my top 5 of good investments. There's very few games that are made for all home consoles (PS2,Cube) that you can make for the Box and it actually utilizes this great system (BOX). It really gets me P.O. to see these software companies make games for all three top competing systems but all they do is change a few codes or whatever to make them compatible to play on each system rather than modifying the game to use it to its full potential depending on the systems capabilities. I LOVE the BOX and I wish they would give the games they make for it some justice. X2 has a great fun factor, nice graphics, pretty good controls, and some really cool kick butt fighting techniques. I would have given it a five but im not your average client, I'm the player president.
Only 2 games can hold five stars within the last decade to me. HALO (XBOX) and LOZelda Ocarina of Time (N64).

This is one of the best games I EVER played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks. You will never find a better fighting/adventure game anywhere. The graphics are perfect, the controls are awesome and the story is cool. I've never had this much fun playing a super-hero game. I could play this game and beat it a million times and it would still be just as fun. They have finally made a Wolverine game that is true to the character. You really feel like you are Wolverine when you play this game. You can use his senses to pull of some bad-a$$ moves and you have truly devastating wicked combos that you can give your hated foes. The game is fun to play and the extras make it even better.

You can find alternate Wolverine costumes throughout the game. You can also find really cool info cards that feature all of Wolverine's friends and foes. You can even (this is the best extra) have your own custom soundtrack in the game. This makes the game so much better than any other fighting/adventure game because you can put in some tunes that really rock and fit well with Wolverine's battles.

Wolverine's Revenge is one of the best games on the X-Box. I would even say that it is one of the best games that I have ever played. If you love good fighting games and Wolverine you will love this game.

Sad...Very Sad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is like the worst game ever made. I'm a really huge fan of stealth games, and other games that have a similar feel to this one. However, this game did horrible.

This is the sort of game where they tell you it all depends on stealth, but in the end, you can tell that: level "A" requires stealth tactics to reach a goal, but level "B" requires outright mayhem. Often if you make a small mistake, you're practically dead. Sure you regenerate some health, but it is painstakingly slow, and in at least one level you have to do without.

The stealth is also very clunky. You enter a sort of cutscene when you implement the move, and whereas this looks cool, the lack of control and longevity more often than not cause you to be seen by his buddy.

The actual "outright mayhem" part of the game is EXTREMELY poor. Though they try to implement a system of "special moves", the timing is hard to master and the chances to use them so few and far between that you often forgot the buttons you need to push (i.e. the controls are pretty crappy). Not to mention the lack of a tutorial really hurt the game, as it took me like 20 minutes to get out of the first room (I died twice before i figured out how to kill the first goons, and then it took another 10 minutes to figure out how to open the door).

Everything in the game is a bit choppy--but that doesn't mean that it isn't addictive. The game actually somehow still comes across as fun. I think you could actually overlook most of the faults, if you had the ability to save anywhere. Doing the same level over and over isn't my idea of a good game.

My recommendation is to rent it--don't buy it, not for any price above a rental price anyway.

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