Each character has special powers, which can be unlocked and improved through levelling up individual stats which can be increased as you progress and enemies who drop loot and eguipment to improve your mutant army. Pick up a joypad and it's immediately obvious that X-Men Legends II is just as much a console beat 'em up as it is a stats-driven RPG adventure. It almost feels like Freedom Force, in that you control one character at a time while the others are controlled by the Al, and of course it's a superhero RPG - but it's around about there that the similarities evaporate.
But combine their mutant powers they must for Apocalypse really is a twat of truly epic proportions.Įnlisting a team of four mutants from either the X-Men or the Brotherhood, the game typically gives you a list of objectives to complete around a certain area, and then throws a constant stream of enemies at you before you successfully complete your tasks, defeat a boss and continue the story. In case you're wondering, Apocalypse is a mega-supervillain, the likes of which cause good guys and bad guys to form unwilling communions in an attempt to defeat the greater threat This gives the respective allies (mainly Wolverine, that masterful aficionado of fine wit) a chance to exchange bad insults with mutants of the opposite group and repeatedly express that they don't like one another very much while waving their claws about angrily. Didn't you watch the movie?) in a top-down beat 'em up with smatterings of RPG elements to keep you interested. So you'll be forgiven for being even slightly tentative of X-Men Legends II, a game in which you command both the X-Men and the Brotherhood (those are Magneto's guys, Magneto is the bad guy. Last Time We saw Wolverine on our desktops it was a horrible, horrible experience - X2: Wolverine's Revenge was an abortion of a game, akin to repeatedly smashing your own teeth in with a large hammer.
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