X-Men Destiny Reviews
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Eurogamer, 5/10.
X-Men: Destiny is a terrible game in most ways. It's an ugly, stupid title that's shoddily constructed. And yet, it gets the most important thing right: crafting your own mutant works due to finely tuned balancing, and tough choices coupled with haphazard item acquisition ensure that the focus is squarely on that.
Those expecting a well told, immersive X-Men experience will shudder at its chunky character designs, shabby presentation and stilted dialogue, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy myself with it.
Unlike movies, it's rare that games are so bad they're good. The rubbish ones are usually so unplayable that they're not worth plodding through. X-Men: Destiny is the exception that gets just enough right to be fun, while being sloppy enough elsewhere to be good for a laugh. It's the best kind of disaster.
Game Chronicles, 7.2/10.
X-Men: Destiny could have certainly benefited from a co-op mode. Imagine having all three main characters teamed up and brawling side-by-side in single-screen multiplayer. But sadly, there is no multiplayer versus or co-op modes and with only minimal variations in story and tactics based on characters and powers, I can't see any reason to replay the game a second time unless you are farming trophies.
If you love the X-Men then you are going to wet yourself when you see the amazing cast assembled for this game. I'm pretty much a movie guy, so half of these characters were strangers to me, but when my comic-reading friends saw this game they were rattling off names after 8-frames of animation. Personally, I enjoyed the art, the character design, some of the levels, the story, and the amount of choice offered, even when that choice didn't matter. The gameplay is mindlessly annoying and repetitive in its button-mashing no more so than say a God of War game, but at least God of War mixes it up and looks cool doing it.
I stopped having (true fun) about halfway through X-Men: Destiny and sadly finished out of obligation and a curiosity to see how the story would unfold. Hopefully, if you're a bigger fan of the X-Men franchise than I am you'll have a better time. Casual gamers should probably skip this is one for true X-Men aficionados.
Blast Magazine, C-.
It's not all bad though if there's one thing that X-men Destiny does right, it's fan service. Playing through Destiny gives you plenty of different costume choices inspired by your favorite X-men characters. In that sense, there's a ton of depth to Destiny if you really know where to look for it, it's just a shame that it couldn't be found in the game itself. Hardcore X-men fans, who pour of every page of the comics and have a notebooks full of sketches of their own mutant creations will get a kick out of Destiny just don't expect it to last too long.
