X-Men: The Official Game
Review
The good, the bad, the X-Men
by Magus
reviewed on PC
Half wolverine, half mole
This game lets you play as three unique X-Men with different abilities each as useless as the last. The first thing I noticed is that even though there's a tutorial it was made for the keyboard exclusively so while I was playing with Wolverine in the first mission, the game kept telling me to heal using the S key or something but I couldn't heal because I was using a game pad. After playing some more time as Wolverine I realized Activision wanted to make this game a blindfold simulator and so the camera moves wherever it wants and pushing the camera stick only makes matters worse by moving the camera off your character. That is a recurrent theme with Wolverine who has the worst camera of the three characters, sometimes it changes from the top of the screen to the bottom and so wherever you were moving to, you are now moving in another direction entirely, this is particularly bothersome in latter levels where you have to face many enemies and are running away to regenerate.
The story of the game has you fight through waves and waves of clones. I guess the programmers wanted to make a point of how cloning is bad and that's why they only made two enemy models (the main difference between the two being they switch weapons) and you have to kill three thousand clones of each, but I might be reading too much into that. Besides the enemies are really frustrating, one of them has a huge electric pike which Wolverine is allergic to, so much that when you use your super power on that kind of enemies Wolverine jumps at them (touching the pike) and dies, and that wasn't a normal attack or something, that's your freaking super power!
Standby for crash
Iceman and Night Crawler are much more playable, especially Night Crawler who can teleport to almost any part on the map but unfortunately you will play as Wolverine the great majority of the time and even Night Crawler's levels are full of stupid bugs which will make you teleport to nowhere and die. One of the most interesting things the game has is mutant points, when you finish a level you are given some points to spend upgrading your character's abilities. Unfortunately no matter how many points you spend the enemies always seem to be just as strong.
The game is also full of bugs, while I was watching one of the videos I used my keyboard to turn the volume up, the game crashed. Another time I was putting mutation points to Night Crawler and the game crashed out of the blue, I had to repeat the level, but at least I got to keep the points I had already assigned.
Kill all Mutants
X-Men is a horrible game full of glitches, bugs and lousy gameplay that is obviously rushed to make it in time for the release of the movie. I hated the cheap AI that instead of making intelligent decisions or attacking in groups just sends wave upon wave of enemies until you die of boredom, there's also the horrible collision detection that makes Wolverine die while attacking an enemy with his super power or the levels where I longed for the end so that I could save and leave. But not everything in the game is bad, for example: I uninstalled it and freed up 2.5 Gb where I'm storing much better things, like, nothing.
3.0
fun score
No Pros and Cons at this time
