X-men: The Official Game

by ACTIVISION

Product Features

• Control Wolverine, Ice Man, and Nightcrawler throughout the game
• Evolve and upgrade your special mutant powers and abilities as you progress with the Mutant Evolution System
• Battle enemies such as the Brotherhood of Mutants and more from both the feature films and the comics
• Features some of the movie's cast, including Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman
• Game actually provides a key part of the overarching movie plot, with an ending that actually sets you up for the beginning of the film

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000EZX4OK
• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: May 16, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,753 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PC

Amazon.com Product Description

All of your favorite mutants are back, and thanks to X-Men: The Official Game, you get to not only stand in their shoes (at least those of them who have shoes, that is), but you get to wield their powers as well. The Official Game game is set right before the events that occur in X-Men 3: The Last Stand and chronicles the events leading up to the film. With three X-Men to control, tons of fast-paced action, a cinematic-quality presentation of the gameplay and more, X-Men: The Official Game truly captures the big-screen excitement and grandeur of the movie.

As a player, you will be able to control Wolverine, Iceman, and Nightcrawler throughout the game, evolving and upgrading the special mutant powers and abilities of each of them over time, becoming faster, stronger and more agile as you progress with the Mutant Evolution System. Use your lethal admantium claws and crushing brute force as Wolverine; scale walls and swing from rafters as Nightcrawler; and race down ice slides at break-neck speed as Iceman. Regardless of who you are, you'll battle enemies from both the feature films and the comics, such as the Brotherhood of Mutants and more. Other X-Men characters, including Professor X, Cyclops, and Storm, also join forces with you during multiple types of gameplay.

The script for the game was written by movie screenwriter Zek Penn and comic writer Chris Claremont. X-Men: The Official Game actually provides a key part of the overarching movie plot, with an ending that actually sets you up for the beginning of the film. Some of the movie cast return to their roles, including Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman. If you love the movies, or if you just love beautiful graphics and gripping action, you'll undoubtedly want to check out X-Men: The Official Game.

Product Description

Building on the momentum of the successful X-Men franchise and the highly anticipated film X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men: The Official Game empowers you to truly embody the X-Men for the first time—mastering their ferocity, speed and agility like never before. Experience events leading up to X-Men: The Last Stand and go beyond—battling fearsome villains and exploring epic environments in this action-packed X-Men adventure.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Does not work on VISTA!, October 25, 2008

By 

Veil_Lord - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: X-Men: The Official Game (CD-ROM)

This game would have a better review, but it doesn't work for Vista. I'd have even forgiven that, but the reason it doesn't work is ONLY it's copy protection! Yes, you paid good money for it and the people who ripped it off for free from the Internet have no problems at all.

The game itself is OK, nothing spectacular. It is quite difficult, but not impossible. You spend most of the time as Wolverine, thankfully little time as Iceman (awful). Nightcrawler is a real treat, he's done better here than any X-men game I've ever played. If you have XP and can find this for maybe $15 it's probably worth it. I got this for like $7 and it was worth that.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing follow-up to Rise of Apocalypse, May 21, 2006

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Ioana Sarbescu (new york, ny) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: X-Men: The Official Game (CD-ROM)

The game is boring and somewhat difficult to navigate. The characters don't even move their lips when they talk (how 15 years ago is that?),there are really no items to collect along the way, and the missions seem kind of pointless. It is by no means as engaging as Rise of Apocalypse, the story is kind of stupid too. The characters don't have that many powers, and there are very few features to the game. I LOVE X-MEN in general, movies, comics, the whole bit, and I hope they come up with another game in the near future that is way better than this one.
I don't get how this could have happened, the game was made by the same company that made the X-men 2.
Now if the movie sucks too, I'll have wasted the past 6 months waiting for both the game and the movie. Oh well.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your $40, June 8, 2006

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Severin (Vermont, United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: X-Men: The Official Game (CD-ROM)

I bought this game after seeing X3 mainly because I was curious as to what happened to Kurt in the third movie. Well, I did learn what happened to him, but wasted $40 doing it. The graphics are terrible--like anime cartoons from the 80s, only worse (in that the movement/speaking is just lacking). My boyfriend and I beat this game in 3 days, with less than 20 hours of total gameplay. I might like it more if I could play ONLY as Nightcrawler, and not have to switch characters, since he has the best moves IMO, but that's not the case. I did enjoy it while I played it, which is why I gave it 3 stars for fun. But it was over way too quickly, and I feel it was a waste of money, so it gets 2 stars overall.

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