Review: X-Men: The Official Game (Xbox 360/PS3)
Written by Jim Squires   
Friday, 25 May 2007 09:30
xmengame.jpgMovie game's are notoriously bad, and enough reviewers have ranted on about this game being no exception. I'll leave them to it, because my complaints go well beyond any of the standard movie tie-in nonsense.

With the exception of Nightcrawler's "teleport behind a guy and punch him in the back of the head" levels, there isn't a moment of fun to be had. But frustration? Oh, that comes in spades.

Wolverine's levels are an endless sea of bad guys that can, at times, completely overwhelm you. This wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that once you die you need to restart most every mission at the beginning.

Iceman's levels takes the cake, though. Controlling Iceman feels like pushing a broken shopping cart through a swimming pool filled with pudding. You get the pleasure of pushing this shopping cart through deadly mazes that will, one way or another, kill you. And once again, no matter how close to the end you are, you'll be doing it all over from the beginning.

I'm a grown man. I haven't thrown a controller since I was six. This game changed all that.

I hope Iceman walks in front of a bus and shatters into a million pieces.

1/10 -- and it earns that point solely for inspiring me to write this shitty review, because without that muse, I'd be nothing.


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written by Andrew Hayward, May 25, 2007
I reviewed this game for a website last year and gave it two stars (out of four). Definitely overrated it by a solid half-star. The Wolverine sequences were absolutely miserable, but I thought the game was somewhat salvaged by the other sequences, which had their moments. But yeah, not worth a purchase or a rental. I borrowed it from a friend who checked it out from the GameStop he worked at and finished it in two days. Awful.
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written by Santos Gonzalez, May 25, 2007
Sounds just as good as the movie... BAD!
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written by Paul Walrus, May 26, 2007
jesus, santos. That was just awful. What are you, some kind of sociopath? I humiliate people like you in reality.

Look, either you shoot up your school/ office/neighborhood, or you take small measures to reintroduce yourself acceptably in fairly common society while you can. It's never too late to make yourself something other than an intellectual embarrasment


Oh, and about the game. It's a shame to hear about the shit wolverine sections, since I have weird, convoluted deja vu of the stealth section of some wolverine game being oddly fun. Is the nightcrawler section worth getting the game?
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written by Jim Squires, May 26, 2007
Not really Paul. There's some fun to be had with Nightcrawler, but it gets pretty repetitive. I think Nightcrawler's levels weren't good some much as they were good compared to the rest of this game.

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