Review of X-Men: The Official Game

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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. 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. I wish I could say the game looks good, but for the XBOX360 it looks rather lame. It's a bit more colorful than the regular XBOX version, but it looks disturbingly identical in all respects. So if you've got the regular XBOX, it really isn't all that different.

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.

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I really enjoyed the last few X-men games and was highly anticipating finally being able to play one on the 360. What a waste of money. While game play graphics are passable, transition, intro and cut scenes are terrible. Heck they aren't even animated. In fact the cut scenes look like they were developed with Flash and their quality is surpassed by South Park.

In terms of game play, you are restricted to three playable characters and mission based scenarios. Wolverine is straight button mashing hack and slash, Iceman is basic aerial navigation and shot lineup and Nightcrawler plays like the Prince of Persia's retarded cousin.

Save your money and if you really feel the need to spend some time with an awful video game, go dig up a copy of ET from the Atari 2800 land fill.

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I'm a huge X-men fan and I'm a fan of the movies. But I must admit this game was a bit misleading. After all I thought it was going to be based on The Last Stand due to it being "The Offical Game" but to my surprise it Isn't. Instead you play between X2 and X3 as Wolverine, Night Crawler and Ice-man. So after discovering what the game was all about, I bought it. I must admit it is rather enjoyable, but I still would have liked to play the story of the Last Stand instead. I would also like to say that I'm unhappy about the cut scenes. Since there more like moving art pieces than CG or clips of the films. All in all I dound the game enjoyable regardless, but I must warn that it has absolutely nothing to do with the film. In conclusion this game is good but next time they should just do a movie based version instead.

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My 7-year-old grandson wanted this game to play on his new X-Box and he's happy with it, however, his four older brothers didn't like it all all. I guess it would depend on the age of the player, which is why I only give it 3 stars. It was certainly a very inexpensive game (compared to all the others I've purchased), so I can't complain about the price.

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love the game. I always loved the movie series and I had the previous games as well. So it was a good choice.