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If XML2 is anything like this...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

...I'll definitely buy that one also. I'm not much of a gamer because I find most games kind of boring, but this game kept my attention for good one or two-hour blocks. And I'm one who'll quit playing Halo at a friend's house after ten or so minutes into it.

Anyway, yeah, XML is a pretty fun game. The plot outline is good for the most part; it's the basic Magneto-plans-to-eliminate-humankind plot you're probably used to with the big-screen movies. Situated within the action play are little snippets of you controlling Alison Crestmere (later, Magma) and her journey to learn more about, and become part of, the team.

I think the best part of the game are its quiet parts. The voice talents involved here are excellent, as well as the use of one of the history of the team. But don't get me wrong, the smash-em-up parts of the game are also stimulating and/or dizzying and electric. Experimenting with different teams is also quite entertaining (for instance, some characters can throw Wolverine, which is kind of comical). The addition of the Danger Room is also nice, but it really serves no purpose outside of the main gameplay.

There are a couple of things that I hope the sequel addresses though. First, I hope that they make the enemies a bit (if not a lot) tougher. To my understanding, XML2 incorporates a difficulty setting which, in my opinion, is a (ahem...) monumental idea. I also wish that the characters are more balance the second time around because here, some characters are godlike while others, well, you just wonder what the hell they're doing here. But I guess that's where you can have your difficulty setting: just having Jubilee, Emma Frost, Nightcrawler, and whoever else in your team is a freaking nightmare.

The graphics and controls are pretty straightforward. I'm not one to the complain about the cartoonish look of the action scenes (I think they look cool) and the FMV scenes look decent. It's during the mission briefing snippets where things fall apart. The cell-shading technique doesn't work here, which makes me wonder why the developers didn't just make these into FMV also. And don't get me started with the Astral Plane. I mean, what the hell...

Nevertheless, these are just a few little drawbacks that keep this game from excellence. An RPG-style game with unique elements of its own, I think it should be a definite buy for fans and non-fans of both the X-Men and Marvel universe.

Wait, where's Angel??

One Flaw From Perfection

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It is time in inject a little reality about X-Men Legends :

They don't get the characters exactly right.

Sure, the game is fun to play. It is visually stunning, and the sound is as good as it gets in video games. If you buy this game you will not be horribly disappointed. I am disappointed to a small degree because the companies and people who crafted this game once again screwed up the characters.

Cluebat for programmers : Nowhere - in over thirty years of X-Men comic books - are mutant powers on a "fuel gage". That is the glaring flaw of this game and all others like it. Wolverine has to "progress" to earn his mutant healing ability? How screwed up is that? Cyclops can actually lose his optic blasts? Storm can't control the weather?

C'mon guys! Get it right for once - instead of limiting the ability of the hero, do what the comics have always done and give them a sufficiently powerful villian to fight. Don't put superpowers on a timer, or mutant abilities on a fuel gauge. Yeah, call me a purist, or fussy, or a nitpicker. I plead guilty to whatever you want to call it. Is it really too much to expect that an X-Men video game actually follow the comic on something so basic?

And that is why I can't give this game the full five stars. Yes, it is easy to learn, fun to play and marvelous to look at. This is a game by which others could and should be measured. Like a diamond, there are just some things that prevent if from being considered perfect.

Awesome Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: October 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am a X-Men fan and this game was more than I had even hoped for. It's definitly the best X-Men game so far. I hav'nt beeten it yet but it's still really cool. My ideal team is Storm, Magma, Rouge and Jean Grey.

Best X-men Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is one the best X-men games ever. Everyone has there own uniqe style of moves and you can team up with your friends to make it even more exciting. I think Night Crawler is the best character in the game but thats my opinion. If your an xmen fan you should definitely buy this game

very very FUN!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the best gamecube games ever and one of the most funnest games to but I don't have yet but I know it's fun because my friend has it and I played it with him for hours and I just can't wait to get X-men legends but there is also two things that I didnt like about it the first thing that I didnt like is that the first level is harder than some of the other levels witch I think is dumm becuase for one its the first level and two you have to fight two bosses and the second thing I didnt like was that its realy hard if you havent played it but overall its a realy good game.

Great game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I first had an XBOX it stopped working so instead of getting it fixed I traded it all in console, games and everything else for a gamecube. This just so happens to be one of the games that I had on my XBOX. When I got my gamecube this was the first game I got for it. Let me tell you it is just as much fun on Gamecube as XBOX. They look so much alike too. I have beat this game twice on my XBOX and on my 2nd way through on Gamecube. This is a fun game for me worth playing over and over. Still working on seeing all of the XMENS powers after the stats are maxed. I don't use cheat codes cause that would be no fun. Anyways great game I hope there are plenty more XMEN game to come that are just as fun or better.

X-Men Legends is the kewlest ^_^

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: October 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

There is only but one word to describe this game... TOTALLY AWESOME! I give this game a 5, count 'em, five star rating! (unlike that jerkwad Leon W. Blocker) But anyway, I was checking this game out on the website with all the previews and short clips of actual game play footage and all that other good stuff. The graphics are awesome with the cell shading because it makes the X-Men stand out more from the back ground and the dialogue is kool. This is probably the best game for the NGC! (until the new Zelda comes out). But i don't think that the powers should be on a gauge, except when you do special moves. but the normal moves shouldn't have to use up the gauge. But other than that, i give it a tumbs and big toes up!

really hard

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: December 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

i have been an xmen fan for a long long time and i cant say that i really like this game.it is very fun to play but very very very hard and you have to unlock all the characters.for instence gambit is my favorite character and you have to unlock him on the third level and the levels are so long and hard,like the sewer level(third level) farther within the sewer level there will be so many enimies that you will find your self in a life or death run for it to the door to the next part of the level and when your doing this running for the exit with about 35 enimies on your tale theres a 30% chance you will make it.

and when your not on a mission you have to controll a girl mutant named alison(magma)

Good Game Great Additon to Your Collection

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge X-men fan so the idea of this game seems really good to me. I'm often against games where you're one person doing a certain objective alone, so having three other people following you who you can switch to and use, made me really want this game. I thought most of the characters are great even though I think Beast and Nightcrawler are terrible. I also like the whole idea where if one character kills someone everyone gets credit for it because sometimes you'll only use one character and that person could become better than the others. I thought Iceman's skills were overused because he's not excatly everyones favorite X-man. The missions are challenging and long which is good but I think there should be more checkpoints in them. This game is great but if you're not a solid X-men lover rent it first and see how you like it.

Not A Game For The Impatient Gamer

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

X-men Legends is a great game for X-men fans and hardcore RPG players. The game combines plenty of fighting combined with challenging puzzles and mysteries. The game features several highlight characters from the popular comic series. X-men legends also has an unique storyline explaining the conflicts between humans and mutants over several levels. The game is also centered around the character Allision who is also known as the mutant Magma. While fun, this game can also be frustrating. The game features levels which are like mazes. This leads one to get often lost in the level. There are also timed part of the games where you have to rescue civillians. For example, one of the most challenging levels was abord a Combat ship called the Arbiter. The character must rescue eight players within 20 minutes. I often got lost within the many corriders and barely passed the level with only 2 minutes remaining. Though frustrating, the game also is alot of fun. It is based on a popular level system. The character gains experience and levels up and you can choose different skills for the character to learn. On a point scale of 10, I would give this game an 8. Mainly because of the endless levels. Now for a price of 20 dollars, this game is a great buy!

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