Fuck Yeah X-Men

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)