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Is it really worth the time?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: July 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Well, about a week ago I got this game and I gave up on it about a half hour into it. The graphics are good, the controls are easy, and the battle system is alright, but I played for a long time as wolverine only to die like three times at the hands of mystic (who, by the way, has guns to combat your claws, like that makes sense). Frankly, I'd suggest LOTR: The Third Age over this game. I dropped this one for it, anyway.

Graphics: 9/10 (It's an overhead view)
Characters/Plot: N/A (I can't rate that, I haven't gotten that far)
Battles: 8/10
Worth it? You decide. I disliked it though.

the best of the x-men!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: November 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

his game is amazing you get to play as:
Wolverine
Cyclops
Rogue
Storm
Beast
Jean Grey
Nightcrawler
Jubilee
Magma
Iceman
Psylocke
Emma Frost
Professor X
Collossus
Gambit

It's a holy game and it came from heaven.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well to start you all should know that there is a total of 15 characters in all and you start out with Wolverine and the rest you have to unlock and you know who the rest of the characters are because of course the other reviews tell you the rest of the characters but besides that you should definitly buy X-Men Legends and well i'm done with that and now to the rating I will give the game the things I will review is the gameplay,sound,Graphics,and the camera well lets start the gamplay 5/5,sound 3/5,graphics 4/5,and the camera is good I would give it overall a 5/5 but I only beat two levels so far because I only got to play for a little bit and when you beat the first level you unlock 6 more characters but thats all.

BAD GRAPHICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: August 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game might be fun but has bad graphics,that annoyed me when i played.BAD GRAPHICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

X-Men Legends video game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game has a very large variety of things of things to do.I mean how cool can it get!!!.Using points to beef up your characters, then onslaughting your enimies with your attacks.You go through a series of levels, getting new characters as you go. If you were thinking of getting Baldur's change your mind get this game!!!.

X-Men Legends is a good game for the Game Cube and one of the first games I bought for my Game Cube

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

X-Men Legends is not a spectacular game by any means, despite some of the cutscenes looking marvelous. However, X-Men Legends is a really good game. In fact, it is good enough in that it recently helped me to decide to purchase X-Men Legends II. The characters in the game are somewhat and lacking detail, but all the same okay. The size of the characters was enough to make one of my friends discouraged from playing the game along with me. The best part of the game is the sheer variety of the game and being able to choose from so many different X-Men to make up your team at times and battle so many different enemy bosses. At certain points in the game, however, the X-Men is selected for you. The fact that nearly everything is a combo of some sort is laughable yet quite enjoyable. The ability to level up is also quite exciting as you unlock more and more powerful attacks and abilities. The armor system is okay. The game even has an X-Men quiz during one of the RPG segments and a back in time battle. The game has not much to come back to once the story mode is done. All in all, X-Men Legends is good but far from great. It is a good buy for Game Cube but not for $50 way back when I bought it and first got a Game Cube and was not sure what games were cool or not. (...)

Everything that's not the use of the license falls apart

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Oddly I actually played Rise of Apocalypse first and honestly, it was quite a blast. Being able to teleport all over the place with Nightcrawler or do a big windup punch with Colossus brought out the inner geek. Only thing is that RoA is the 2nd Legends game so it makes sense to play the first one next, right? Well while it arguably has the better story, it's marred by a lot of gameplay problems that oddly makes the game more difficult than it should be.

Story: The story centers around Alison Crestmere, a young mutant who was about to be kidnapped by the Brotherhood. Luckily the X-Men rescue her and she's brought into the Mansion. The game switches back and forth between specific missions the X-Men go on as well as the development of Alison in learning to control her powers.

Graphics: On occasion they can get really ugly. After the awesome cinema quality of RoA I guess I got spoiled since not only do these look a bit underdeveloped but I actually noticed quite a bit of grain and pixels. The in-game graphics look kinda nice though although level design tends to be abnormally repetitive and kind of bland.

Sound/Music: Largely forgettable music and the voice acting's hit and miss. Xavier of course is spot-on as well as the girls such as Storm, Rogue and Alison but then you hear the way-too-gruff sounding Wolverine or Cyclops.

Gameplay: This is where it excels as well as falls apart. You have a team of 4 X-Men you can choose and pressing a direction on the D-pad switches to that character. Each has strong and weak punches as well as throwing and specific character-related skills. Gambit throws his explosive cards while Beast rolls into a cannonball which oddly he can't seem to aim well. Luckily the AI is quite nice since they don't just stumble off cliffs however they'll call out for aid even though you've established that they should heal themselves and you have the health packs to do it. Not to mention the packs don't necessarily fill your gauge so even if you did cure them which you tend to have to switch to them yourself manually, they end up getting pummelled further requiring more health packs.

The major issue for me was levelling up. Essentially you get lots of enemies to beat up and get EXP but not enough to keep your character levels equal with theirs so pretty soon you find yourself underlevelled and you find you're getting decimated incredibly easily. You can remedy this by going into the Danger Room and doing certain lessons over and over but in order to raise the enemy levels you have to find certain disks hidden in the level that correspond to a specific lesson. So you can see if you don't find these things then you can't train. Others though will probably find it incredibly easily but on occasion the game can be a real *****.

You get X-Men favorites to pick from such as Nightcrawler, Wolverine, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Rogue, Gambit, Beast, Jubilee as well as unlockable characters. Each has a specific skill unique to them. Cyclops blasts enemies while Wolverine does a slashing move and Jubilee sends destructive fireworks(I'm not kidding). However, each use of it requires energy, not to be confused with health. So Wolverine can't use his healing, he has to learn it? Use Storm's lightning too much and now she doesn't have it? It makes sense on a game front but it just comes across as frustrating. Not to mention said health and energy packs have to be bought and you don't actually do that until a specific mission.

If it sounds like I'm complaining well I felt this game gave me a right to. Spider-Man 2 was a great use of the license and Superman Returns looks promising. They did so many things right here but then they completely drop the ball elsewhere.

Awesome multiplayer

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Overall I agree with the previous positive reviews, except the one comment I'd like to make is that the the co-operative multiplayer is a blast. It's one of the few games in existence that you can play with more than one person without trying to KILL each other and it seems some thought went into it. The game is actually better with three or four people than by yourself. Same goes for the sequel.

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