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Nov 08 2005
X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse Review
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| Summary: Good game, not great
80
With the lack of any good RPG's on the PSP, I bought this game hoping that it would fill that void. Now, this game isn't a true RPG, it is more like Gauntlet. You basically choose a team of four characters and you roam around dungeons completing little missions. The amount of characters that you can choose from is pretty big. Most of the main X-Men such as Cyclops, Storm, Jean Grey and Wolverine are in the roster. The twist in this game is that the Brotherhood have teamed up with the X-men to battle against Apocalypse. You can create a team consisting of both X-men and the Brotherhood. It's a novel idea and actually adds to the replayability of the game. You will spend a lot of time trying to build up your characters and creating the perfect team.
There are unlockable skins and characters as well which will keep you playing the game. As the characters level up, you can distribute skill and stat points to make you characters stronger. Now that we have the good aspects out of the way, onto the bad. This game has a couple of nuisances that really got me frustrated. First of all, the loading times are TERRIBLE! Everytime you go into the menu, the game has to load. You will have to constantly go into the menu to tweak you characters. It gets very annoying when everytime I want to change teams or level up, I have to wait 10 seconds. It got so bad, I just let the computer distribute my equipment and stat points automatically.
As you progress through the game, you will pick up a lot of equipment. When you fill up all of your storage space and item slots, you will either have to leave some of the equipment behind or go back to your base and sell of some of the equipment. This gets very annoying because to go back to your base, you have to use this blink portal, which means more loading times. Also, to equip on each character, you have to change the character out which means more loading times.
Besides the loading times, the gameplay gets quite repetitive. There are a couple of comic book missions, danger room training missions and trivia games, but other than that, the game is pretty much hacking and slashing. The unlockables are great but they don't really add too much to the replayability because you pretty much find everything the first time around. The game is quite easy and short also. There are only five acts and each one can be completed in about a day. Once you beat the game, there is no reason to play it again. My final verdict for this game: This is a good game... for a rental.
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