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Rating:  -
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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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.
Rating: -
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. (...)
Rating:  -
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.
Rating:  -
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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