X-men: The Official Game

by ACTIVISION

Product Features

• Encounter key elements of the X-MEN movie universe, from villians to locations.
• Join forces with Storm and Colossus against Sabretooth, Multiple Man and others.
• Evolve your character' powers over time, in environments tailored to their skills.
• Featuring the voices of: HUGH JACKMAN, PATRICK STEWART, ALAN CUMMING, SHAWN ASHMORE and others.

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000EXZAKI
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches ; 6.1 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: May 16, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,235 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

Master the power if the X-Men! Unleash the fury of Wolverine, the speed of Iceman and the agility of Nightcrwler as you battle through events leading up to the feature film X-Men: The Last Stand.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars X3 game not fully realized but still worth a play., May 20, 2006

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Robert J. Pollock "d21beast" (Columbia, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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

I am a huge X-Men fan and I have to first say that I bought this game on the day it came out and had beaten it with most extras unlocked by the third day I owned it.

If some of you recall Activision has had a history of X-Men movie spinoff games first starting with the PSX's platform X-Men: Mutant Academy which eventually "evolved" into the incredibly good X-Men: Next Dimension and then again with the great but lacking X2: Wolverine's Revenge game when the second movie hit theaters. As a previous reviewer has stated, X-Men: the Official Game does have the feel of Wolverine's Revenge to an extent. However it is both improved and downgraged in it's own respects.

X-Men: The Official Game is a prequal to the third istallment to the X-Men movie franchise as opposed to being a direct movie adaptation version, the bonus of this particular concept is the ability to play as Nightcrawler the "bamfing" blue mutant demon who is not present in X-Men 3 due to frequent pre-production issues when X-Men: The Last Stand was starting to come to fruition.

This X-Men game starts with the X-Men training in the danger room and mourning the recently departed Jean Grey and takes a team of five (though you only ever control three mutants in depth) mutant heroes through an unresolved Col. Stryker plot that was not spoken about in the second X-Men film. The three characters you get to control in depth (I say this because you do get to tell Storm when to fire lightning in particular levels) are Iceman, Wolverine and of course the loveable Nightcrawler. Each of these character have their own defining traits as you play as them and never feel simply like the same three heroes with different special abilities.

Here are the pros and cons of each character:

Iceman: I thought that Iceman was going to be one of the coolest players in the game (no pun intended!). I was however dissapointed the most with him. Unlike in the X-Men Legends game series Bobby Drake-Iceman is permanently suspended on his ice bridge. It's truely difficult to steer him and all of his levels seemed to be timed so you never really get a chance to enjoy playing as him or even look around for the hidden unlockables in his level. That being said, Shawn Ashmore actually does voice-work for the character and it makes him some what desireable to play just to enjoy hearing him while you struggle to keep your sanity throughout his various time trials.

Wolverine: As I mentioned before this game has the feel of X2: Wolverine's Revenge with respect to overhead views and constant slicing and dicing (no blood) of infanite faceless goons. However, where Wolvie's Revenge has complex battle combos and stealthy attack rewards this Wolverine has got a head butt attack that works some of the time and and fury meter that pretty much makes you invincible and super powered throughout it's limited use. Wolverine has great locals that he travels to and hearing Hugh Jackman actually voice the character is really quite a treat and deffinitely makes this confused loner the second best reason to play this game. Now onto the shining star...

Nightcrawler: Who whould have thought that a character whom has never had a successful career as a solo comic book character might actually have the potential for a great solo game? Nightcrawler is by far the most enjoyable character to play as in this game. Teleportation, Running matrix-style on walls, sneak attacks, and a humble german accent are all fully realized in this charater's missions throughout the game. These great features are only made better by Alan Cumming himself actullay voiceing the character! You'll find once you master his teleportation attacks, Nightcralwer his the most fun player in the game and I would truely love to see Wolverine's Revenge type of treatment given to this loveable circus performer in another game really soon!

Despite the numerous flaws with Iceman and and substandard voice-work for Pyro this game truely is one of a kind and deserves to be given a chance. It will be a quick victory even on hard difficulty settings (expect with Iceman, who's time limits become almost unattainable) and smooth and enjoyable ride.

Other great things to note are Patrick Stewart and Tyler Mane bringing thier voices in for Professor X and Sabretooth repspectively and John Ottman's original score for X2 is actually used in the game.

The game is great and I would like to have seen a few things improved upon visiually or even Nightcrawler given more solo treatment in this game and hopefully in an upcomming game, but if not to own, any fan of the movie series should at least give it a rent.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Just Give It a Chance!, May 20, 2006

By 

Ryan (Biloxi, Mississippi) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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

A lot of people give this game a bad review because they're strictly gamers, not necessarily comic book fans, and they have a natural bias against games based on movies. I myself am not an avid gamer. This review is written from a hardcore comic book fan's point of view.

I personally really enjoyed this game. Yes, it can be slightly redundant. Yes, it can be slightly annoying at times since there aren't as many checkpoints as there could be. But the look of the game is incredible. The environments match the style of the movies very closely. Not to mention the levels can be a lot of fun to play.

A lot of people are ticked off that the cut scenes are nothing more than still photos of the characters with voice-overs. This is meant to represent comic book story frames. Besides, I think this method looks a whole lot better than cut scenes in other comic book games, such as Spider-Man 2.

If you're strictly a gamer, you might hate this game. But if you love the X-Men, then you shouldn't be disappointed by this. It's a fun game with lots of extras (like Danger Room missions and extra costumes), and it ties X2 and X3 together, so what more could you want?

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Comic Book Title semi-WASTED!!!!!!!!, June 17, 2006

By 

Always Samsung "ravereviews" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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

Another comic book title semi-wasted. This game has alot going for it. Unfortunately it was very poorly executed. The game has the movies music, feel, and atomosphere down pat. But that is about it. It really lacks anything innovative in a action adventure brawler. I have to say that Wolverine is the worst character to play in this game. His hack & slash levels are so ordinary. Ice Man & NightCrawler seem to have the most entertaining rounds. Ice Man is always on his snow glide & Night Crawler can do his teleporting effect. Its such ashame we couldnt pick Storm, Colossus, Angel, Magneto, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Rogue, or Shadowcat. Another down side is that the game is not created for 2 players. I dont have an Xbox 360 but from what everyone tells me it has the most impressive graphics on the 360. I got a GameCube version & the graphics are fine but seems like it was made for the Nintendo 64 & Playstation 1 if anything. I got my game at Best Buy for 29.99 cause i was in no mood to shell out 39.99 for this game after all the bad press. All in all a decent game, but not on any level is it EXTRA-ORDINARY. Another thing is the animated cut scenes. There not so ANIMATED!!!!!! If you know what i mean? Its setup like your reading a comic book & the only characters that ever move in the cut scenes are the non X-men characters. All in all a decent action/adventure game & hopefully when the next X-men game comes out it will be so much better. A recent comic book video game that just came out that is really GOOD is Teen Titans & its only 19.99. Give Teen Titans and this one a try , X-men is not as bad as everyone says it is. But just wait till the price drops to 29.99 & under before making your purchase.

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