X-Men: Legends
As a present to myself for a job well done I boughtActivision's X-Men Legends. And it's so damn good. Remember the X-Men arcade game? The one where you could be Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Colussus, Nightcrawler or Dazzler and Blob screamed "Nothing can stop the Blo-ob" and at one point you fought Wendigo? Yeah. This is like that, but a million jillion times better.
Probably the greatest innovation of this game is that you can play the whole thing through 1 player (with an AI controlling the other X-men on your team) and at any point other people can just jump in and taker control of the AI characters. Genius. Oh, and I don't know about other systems, but on the Gamecube the control is really smooth and well layed out, to the extent that Emily picked it up pretty much right away, and she's not an action gamer at all.
And from what I've seen so far it's rather gloriously faithful to the look and feel of the comics (with a costume nod to the *ugh* Ultimate version). I love it.
Probably the greatest innovation of this game is that you can play the whole thing through 1 player (with an AI controlling the other X-men on your team) and at any point other people can just jump in and taker control of the AI characters. Genius. Oh, and I don't know about other systems, but on the Gamecube the control is really smooth and well layed out, to the extent that Emily picked it up pretty much right away, and she's not an action gamer at all.
And from what I've seen so far it's rather gloriously faithful to the look and feel of the comics (with a costume nod to the *ugh* Ultimate version). I love it.
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Oh, this game is so glorious. Emory bought extra X-Box controllers and he and I, along with Frank and Leslie all played together and it was almost too much joy to bear.
Have you played any flashback levels yet? You will enjoy them.
Toppling a Sentinel is currently one of my greatest joys. I can't wait until we get to play as Colossus and Emma Frost.
I started the ice level (I guess level 2, if you dont count the mansion, which you shouldn't) last night with Emily, but it was already so late, and we couldn;t find the generators, and we both fell asleep playing the game.
The flashback scenes are pure fanboy retro joy, with appropriate costumes to reflect the time period, no less.
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