X-Men: Destiny - A Review (-ish)

I have been playing for about an hour now, and here are my opinions.

I really don’t quite know how I feel about this game. I am trying so hard to enjoy it, because I really like the X-Men, and I’m sure there are worse games than this one (although I can’t actually think of any off of the top of my head). All of my complaints about it can be summarised into two main issues: it’s a good premise poorly executed, and it feels unfinished. The combat system doesn’t exactly require any sort of creative thought and is a little sluggish, but the X-Gene thing is sort-of interesting. The graphics are a little shabby, but I’ve just chosen to play without my glasses on. It’s nice to see all of the characters that I love, but I kind of wish I was playing as them rather than a character who has a really poorly put together back story (which is another disappointment: I was really excited to hear that Mike Carey had written the storyline stuff for this).

Overall, I’d say that it’s probably a bad idea to buy this game. Maybe rent it, if you feel you can get over the faults (I’m certainly going to keep playing, because I feel I need to go through it at least a couple of times to get my money’s worth).

Rating: 2/5 (with at least some of that score being derived from the hope that it gets better.)

(Source: theuncannyalex)

  1. ssuperpoweredd reblogged this from fyxmen and added:
    I was really excited for this, but I kind of figured it wouldn’t be as good as I originally hoped. Shoddy graphics is...
  2. fyxmen reblogged this from theuncannyalex
  3. jackthecb said: The only hope that I would go near the game is that Pixie and Surge were in it
  4. steevinlove said: I’m sad about it also, I’ve been waiting for another X-Men specific game and this game could have been much more, the fact that your stuck choosing between 3 heroes that I don’t really care about turned me away. This helped me out. I’ll rent.
  5. mrbritneyspears said: Completely agreed. US got it on Tuesday, I already beat it. The lack of characters is terrible,
  6. morelikegazoinksbo said: which character/powerset are you using?
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