X-Men Legends (Xbox)

When it comes to videogame transitions from Comics, few franchises have fared as well as Marvel’s mighty mutants the X-Men. From Konami’s sublime arcade Beat ‘em Up through Sega’s excellent 16-Bit plat formers and Capcom’s masterful X-Men: Children of the Atom, the X-Men have chalked up more impressive games than almost the entire DC Comics roster combined. Granted there have been blips, most notably the NES game, but compare their performances to poor Superman and see the gulf in class. Sadly, the most consistently dull X-Games have all come since Activision acquired the license from Capcom. 3 dreadfully dull and sluggish pseudo-3D fighters and a generic 3D ...  Read the complete review

I must admit this is one of the better role playing games that I have enjoyed over recent times, it is full of ation, quite challenging with very smooth game play. In this game you choose a team of four however you start playing as Wolverine with the task of saving a new member of the X-Men team Magma. Magneto and his henchmen provide the opposition whilst the X-Men are made up of all the usual suspects. Most of the game is spent riunning around fighting your enemies and you have two basic attack buttons to use however these can be used in various ways the create some realley effective combination attacks. The story behind the whole game ...  Read the complete review