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A Cash Cow Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: May 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Not always is a game based off a movie bad. There really are some good ones out there. However, there are some that truly are bad and should be avoided. X-Men: The Offical Game is that game. The game overall is pretty poor. The developers didn't seem to take it seriously. The game is meant to connect The second X-Men movie with the third one. Unfortunately, the game just reeks of bad quality. Perhaps if it had spent more time in development, the game could've been good. Instead it's rather bland.

The game begins with a training mission with each character. This is simply to get you adjusted to the gameplay mechanics. Later on you'll come to see these training missions are just a waste of time. Playing the game is already simple as can be. Afterwards, you go back to Alkali Lake as Nightcrawler and recover parts of Cerebro. Afterwards you'll be given a choice between which scenario you want.

Throughout the entire game you'll only get to play as three characters. Wolverine, Iceman or Nightcrawler. Each of them have their own abilities, and their own scenarios. Once you pick one character, you're stuck with them until their scenario is over. You won't really run into the other playable characters a lot, though. Neither are the scenarios very hard or exciting.

X-Men is pretty much a simple beat 'em up game, with little bits and pieces of story thrown in for good measure. The story isn't really impressive, though. It's hard to follow, and the game doesn't put an emphasis on it. What voice acting there is isn't so bad. At least the voices that come from the stars of the film. You'll recognize them instantly. Those who aren't voiced by celebrities don't sound all that great. The story also unfolds mostly through storyboards rather than cinematics.

But what emphasis there is on gameplay is simplistic and mediocre. All you've got to do is beat people up. You might have to open a door or something, but that's about it. It isn't that the game is a beat 'em up that frustrates me. It's that there's nothing more to it than button mashing. And there aren't a lot of combos to perform either. As I said, it's simplistic.

Outside of beating up your enemies, you may have to telport as Nightcrawler. Nightcrawler does have a healing ability, and so does Iceman, but I'm quite sure they didn't have one before. Iceman's levels are a little more interesting than the others, seeing as how his are constantly moving along. The bulk of the game, however, is simply beating up your enemies. And as I mentioned, there isn't a whole lot of variety to beating them up.

There are moments when the game can be hard. Well, frustrating actually. The game doesn't provide a lot of difficulty, but it does provide you with having to charge at your enemies head on to--you guessed it--beat them up. You'll have to run through bullets to get to most of them, and that can be a little annoying.

Boss fights aren't really exciting either. Those consist of you performing a simple little dash and hit sort of pattern most of the time. They have predictable patterns and don't really do a whole lot to get you. Again, this makes the game rather easy.

Where the game really hits a low point are the graphics. The game certainly looks good, but there are some glitches that might make you question the graphics. For example, you can knock an enemy into a wall and they'll get stuck there, unable to get out of it, and unable to damage you. Sometimes enemies will pop up out of no where and there's no explanation. If these sorts of things only happened once or twice, I wouldn't mind. But they don't. They happen numerous times and constantly. The game looks good at least. Nothing noteworthy, there are plenty of games that look better, but this game doesn't look bad at all.

It's also rather annoying that the character selection is only limited to three characters. There could've been more characters than just Wolverine, Nightcrawler and Iceman. They each play a little differently, but they're the only three characters. That's rather disappointing.

This is nothing more than a Cash Cow game. It's nothing but a beat 'em up game with little variety. If it had spent more time in development, it probably would've been a better experience overall. There are better games out there. Ones with a bit more quality than this. I can't recommend this one. Not at all.

Another comic book title poorly EXECUTED!!!!!!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Another comic book title semi-wasted. This game has alot going for it. Unfortunately it was very poorly executed. The game has the movies music, feel, and atomosphere down pat. But that is about it. It really lacks anything innovative in a action adventure brawler. I have to say that Wolverine is the worst character to play in this game. His hack & slash levels are so ordinary. Ice Man & NightCrawler seem to have the most entertaining rounds. Ice Man is always on his snow glide & Night Crawler can do his teleporting effect. Its such ashame we couldnt pick Storm, Colossus, Angel, Magneto, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Rogue, or Shadowcat. Another down side is that the game is not created for 2 players. I dont have an Xbox 360 but from what everyone tells me it has the most impressive graphics on the 360. I got a GameCube version & the graphics are fine but seems like it was made for the Nintendo 64 & Playstation 1 if anything. I got my game at Best Buy for 29.99 cause i was in no mood to shell out 39.99 for this game after all the bad press. All in all a decent game, but not on any level is it EXTRA-ORDINARY. Another thing is the animated cut scenes. There not so ANIMATED!!!!!! If you know what i mean? Its setup like your reading a comic book & the only characters that ever move in the cut scenes are the non X-men characters. All in all a decent action/adventure game & hopefully when the next X-men game comes out it will be so much better. A recent comic book video game that just came out that is really GOOD is Teen Titans & its only 19.99. Give Teen Titans and this one a try , X-men is not as bad as everyone says it is. But just wait till the price drops to 29.99 & under before making your purchase.

Good graphics average game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I got this game after seeing the movie and it does not follow the story line. It is an O.K.game but lacks real fun. It has no multi player mode and all you do in the levels is run around killing people. You never have to think or solve puzzles. I would recomend some thing fun you can play with freinds ( madden, pac man etc. ) Don't get this unless you are bored & have a lot of spare cash or a die hard X-men fan.

Vey good ,but short.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First off I want to say that many people think this game is the worst thing since Lego racing for N64. It's a really good game I recomend it to the die hard X-Men fans ,but a normal person no.It's too short the fighting styles are cool and the bosses are easy even the last boss. One problem though you have to earn mutations through harder difficulties and you only get at least one on easy mode sometimes you don't get nothing. Very good though otherwise has me hyped about the movie coming this Friday.

Worst and Best game ever!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I thought that X-MEN THE OFFICIAL GAME was a very fun game. My son loves playing it. I asked him some questions about the game and these were his answers:

1) Who was the best character?
I think it would be Nightcrawler. I love that you can teleport as much as you want. In the beginning of the game when you are first him, after you beet the enemies, you can just tele port around the whole building! He even made his own story by doing that!

2) Who was the worst character?
WOLVERINE. His powers are stupid no matter what and this game brought out how stupid he is even more.

3) Do you think that other people would like this game?
Yes! Although you can only be 3 characters, it is fun. You will love Nightcrawler's levels the most!!!

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