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Rating:  -
At its heart, this is a button mashing action game. The role-playing features are secondary to what amounts to a very "Gauntlet"-type experience (for those of you familiar with that franchise). On the plus side:
-The many powers you can unlock for each character make the game interesting and really do provide your characters with improved performances.
-The voice-over is faithful to each character.
-There are many secrets to unlock (characters, abilities, items, etc.)
On the "negative" side:
-The combat system is real time, which for me meant that the learning curve was pretty high at first. I had to learn how to assign powers, use them, switch mutants, and heal everyone...all while being atacked.
-There are so many abilities for each mutant to build up that, at times, it gets to be too much to remember.
-Same goes for the items you can buy or acquire from enemies. After a while, if you want to switch belts, or gloves, or anything else between mutants, it's going to take you a bit.
-Finally, the hack and slash style of play gets a little old.
Rating:  -
This is a really fun game. The graphics were well designed and the game play was unique, not like other games I've played before. It was fun being able to choose which characters to play and designing my own team. I would recomend this game. It's not the best game in the world, but if you like X-Men you'll like this game a lot.
Rating:  -
I bought this to play with a friend, but we gave up on it after an hour or so. I was hoping for a good beat-em-up game with some neat moves, but X-Men Legends II can't decide whether it wants to be an RPG or action game. Sometimes an action RPG can be fun, like Oblivion. But XMLII gets overly mired down in the crappy story. You wind up in a pattern, fight 10 or 20 enemies, then it goes to cut scenes about the uninteresting story. I really just want to beat stuff up. You're constantly finding items and powers that you're supposed to intelligently distribute, we always just used "auto distribute" or whatever and kept on going. After all, it's no fun sitting around watching the other play distribute powers and items.
The graphics aren't very good, the characters are fairly small, the alien planet scenery isn't that interesting. Sounds were decent.
Overall if you're looking for an action game with RPG elements and a constantly intruding storyline, this game is for you. Otherwise pass or just rent it.
Rating:  -
What makes X-Men Legends II so frustrating is that there was so much potential here, yet poor production quality ruined what would have otherwise been an incredible game. As with many games based on movie or comic book franchises, this game relies more on name recognition and an already established fan base than on the actual performance of the game itself to attract buyers.
I was hoping to see an improvement over the graphics on the original X-Men Legends, but it looks like the developers used the same engine. One improvement over the original is that characters now have many more skills to choose from. But even this feature's benefit is curtailed by the fact that many of the skills available to the characters are practically useless.
The main complaint I have with X-Men Legends II is that it is utterly unplayable once your characters reach a high level. For some reason, the game constantly freezes once your characters start to approach level 70. This glitch is so rampant that the game is totally unplayable on higher levels. This is frustrating, because once you've invested several hours into building up a powerful team of characters, you want to enjoy the fruits of your labor, yet the game's faulty design won't let you.
Overall, it's still a fun game, and that's what makes the serious design flaws so frustrating.
Rating: -
It seriously hampers your overall enjoyment of the game. The game freezes up when you have too many items, it stops dropping items when certain conditions aren't met, etc. It's just a nightmare...
DO NOT buy this game; save your money for the upcoming Marvel team-up game (the exact name escapes me right now).
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