X-Men Legends Reviews

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Written by BuckGB on November 15th, 2004

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Overall, X-Men Legends is a good game with no major flaws. Although it's certainly not genre busting in any way, it provides Action-RPG fans something better to play than the subpar Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. Anyone who is a fan of either the X-Men or Action-RPGs will find a fun, 15-hour game with X-Men Legends. Fortunately, after the ending, Apocalypse appears, and a lead-in for the now-announced sequel is shown, so more is on the way.

All in all, XMen Legends is a very polished product, it provided hours of entertainment and a very enjoyable story. I would not say the game is by any means difficult but not easy either, its got a good balance, a lot of the time, this is more than simply a beat the hell out of the AI type game, you have to think about how to tackle certain things, this game takes brains and braun.

Gameplay is an action-RPG affair akin to Dungeon Siege and the like, where you control a team of four Mutants (eventually), meeting new ones as you progress through the story and swapping out select characters along the way. As each X-person has a unique skill or two, the group dynamic is always changing on the heavily action accented fly, which keeps it all fresh and invigorating through and through.

X-Men: Legends is a breath of fresh air on the Xbox: an action RPG without the wizards, warriors and stereotypical fantasy conventions that mire the genre. It manages to provide not only an extremely satisfying hack'n'slash experience, but also a solid story and non-combat component that adds a little depth to the usual shallow, button-mashing gameplay. Add 4 player co-op, the ever-popular X-Men franchise and a wealth of rich historical information to the equation, and you have an absolute winner.

If you love the X-Men, love RPGs, or just love your Xbox, commandeer the X-Jet and fly to your local store and grab a copy!

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