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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | Product Features Platform: PlayStation2 Choose up to 4 players from the X-Men or Brotherhood teams and send them on missions Each of the 16 playable characters has 10 superpowers you can use for awesome fighting, melee or ranged attacks - all upgradeable as you earn experience & complete missions Online and offline multiplayer modes feature dynamic joining that lets your friends jump into the action at any time Flexible, open-ended storyline lets you determine the outcome of the battle -- theatrical-quality FMV move the story along 6 multiplayer skirmish modes offer head-to-head versus action, side-by-side battles against enemies and more Platform: PlayStation2 | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 7.5 inches | | Product Width: | 5.25 inches | | Product Height: | 0.75 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.3 pounds | | Package Length: | 7.5 inches | | Package Width: | 5.3 inches | | Package Height: | 0.6 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.3 pounds | | Release Date: | September 20, 2005 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 47 reviews |
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| | Game Information | | Platform: | PlayStation2 | | Media: | Video Game | | Item Quantity: | 1 |
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| | Features | Choose up to 4 players from the X-Men or Brotherhood teams and send them on missionsEach of the 16 playable characters has 10 superpowers you can use for awesome fighting, melee or ranged attacks - all upgradeable as you earn experience & complete missionsOnline and offline multiplayer modes feature dynamic joining that lets your friends jump into the action at any timeFlexible, open-ended storyline lets you determine the outcome of the battle -- theatrical-quality FMV move the story along6 multiplayer skirmish modes offer head-to-head versus action, side-by-side battles against enemies and more
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45 of 47 found the following review helpful:
 Fun Game, Bad Glitch. Here's how to fix the freezing glitch! Oct 14, 2005
By The Matrix Fan
"Video Gamer since 1979."
This game is absolutely excellent. There's not much that I can add that hasn't already been said - but there is the major problem of the freezing glitch that can cause SERIOUS aggravation. I was up to level 4 and the freezing got to such a bad point, the game wouldn't load anymore and I had to restart from scratch.
From checking online, and trying it myself with a new save file, it is possible to get through the entire game without a single freezing glitch. There is a "Hero" chest where you can store items that are not in use (armor, gloves, belts, etc....)
Do _not_ fill up this chest and have your active characters carrying 20 items at the same time. Apparently this is what causes the freezing. I kept my items in the hero chest below 30 and the next time through the game, there was no freezing whatsoever.
The symptoms appear to be when you attack a glowing character, or try to pick up an item from a weapons cache, these are the most common points that the freezing occurs.
If this is the case, reboot the game and try cleaning out your hero chest items to below 30, and drop about 10 items out of your active party. That should clear up the problem.
I'd rate the game higher, but this is a glitch that definitely should have been caught during quality control.
73 of 83 found the following review helpful:
 Sadly, major flaws mar an otherwise exceptional game. Sep 30, 2005
By D. Mok
This was indeed a saddening experience. The first X-Men Legends was pretty flawed, but this one was really a blast to play for the most part. I was smelling a five-star rating until the last third of the game, when serious problems crop up to make this game sometimes frustrating, sometimes infuriating...and at this point, unplayable (more to follow).
Pros:
- Most of my criticisms of the previous games have been acknowledged. Character abilities are much more diverse, so they feel much more like unique personalities now. And who wouldn't like playing with Magneto, Toad, or Juggernaut?
- Character training has been improved. In the previous game, the biggest problem was that you get so few ability points that you don't get to play around with some of the less useful, more exotic character skills. Here, characters can be customized to an impressive extent.
- Bishop was always one of my favourite X-Men, not to mention one of the few genuinely black characters (instead of a white character with brown skin, like Storm) in the comics. Great to see him in this game.
- The new "Blink Portal" feature allows you to call up a save point in most places every five minutes. This is an excellent balance between not letting the player save for 20 minutes straight (a major problem in X-Men Legends) and so many saves that the challenge goes right out the window.
- The fighting system has been tweaked, all for the better. Enemies are smarter, and sometimes it's frustrating to fight them, but in this game, it's a good kind of frustrating -- challenging instead of annoying. Whereas I couldn't wait to get the fights over with in X-Men Legends, here they flow seamlessly into the rhythm of the puzzle-solving, exploration, character training, and story.
- Maps are much, much clearer. The Automap feature is absolutely indispensable. And probably in response to accusations that X-Men Legends was too short, they have increased the maps drastically in size. But thanks to the new save system, it's not a laborious bore to explore the world.
- Item collection is more accessible this time around. It's much easier to discover things as you run/fly around the map.
Cons:
- This is the biggest one. I beat the game once and was delighted to see an option I clamored for in the first X-Men: The ability to replay the game using the characters you've been using, retaining your hard-earned abilities and items. But as I played on after beating Apocalypse, the game acquired this incredible tendency to crash. I'm not talking every hour -- I'm talking about loading a game, walking two paces to get to Zealot, and having the game freeze up the minute I defeat him. The game crashed at least 20 times (not an exaggeration) in one morning. Basically, it's unplayable. I don't care what the cause is or what game this happens to; it's unacceptable.
- Some of the Danger Room missions are well nigh undoable. In one Defend mission, you're supposed to protect Havok from harm. He's standing on the other side of the screen and it takes about five seconds to get to him. For the first dozen times I tried this course, Havok died within three seconds of starting the mission, before I even had time to switch characters to activate a healing ability. Did they actually test this?
- They actually put too many items into the game. Variety and flavour are good, but at a certain point, it became too much of a strain to try to distribute equipment over and over.
- Lots of the voice work and cinematics are poorly paced. I don't need eight seconds of the camera panning to the electric trap I just disarmed, thank you very much. They should have allowed us to skip some of these with the Start button.
Overall, I had a very good time playing this game. So it was very frustrating to see that the massive crashing problem suddenly emerge, rendering the game pretty much unplayable for me. X-Men Legends had the same kind of crashes, just not as frequently, and none of my other games has this problem, using this exact same console with the same memory cards, which leads me to believe there's something wrong with the way the game was programmed. Activision really needs to solve this, because no one will ever have the patience to play a game that crashes every three minutes. What a dismaying development to what is otherwise a very fun, well-balanced game.
20 of 23 found the following review helpful:
Excellent sequel, some very minor problems Oct 19, 2005
By Review Lover
"ReviewLover"
X-Men Legends was a breath of new life for those of us sick and tired of waiting for a decent adventure game starring everyone's favourite cast of mutants. It was fast, fun, big and challenging, and contained more in-references and playable characters than you could shake a stick at.
X-Men Legends 2: ROA takes that formula and tweaks it somewhat, meaning that this is a sequel that essentially delivers more of the same addictive gameplay, bucketloads more of the same straight-from-the-comic-book atmosphere, and a few minor improvements and disimprovements over the original.
The plot is expansive and kind of perfunctory: Apocalypse is back and now the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (the baddies from the original game) must now side with the X-Men to remove the threat of immediate worldwide annihilation. This cunning stunt allows you to have a cast of sixteen selectable muties from the get-go, and this is a pretty even blend of both X-Men and BOEM characters alike. Some are strong from the beginning and only get more powerful as they level up (the ubiquitous Wolverine, Jean Grey, Colossus), some of the new characters are excellent too (Scarlet Witch, Bishop, Juggernaut and Sunfire), and some of the characters from the first game that you might not have used as much because of their clunkiness have been improved out of all order - for me, this was Rogue and Gambit, now (thanks to some serious design improvements) a formidable team.
There are still some dud characters, though, and these come in the shape of Magneto and Toad. Shame, but what can you do? You don't *have to* use them, so it's not all bad.
The only drawback about all of this is the fact that a huge, huge portion of the Marvel cast roster (and even that from the first game, which was by no means exhaustive!) is missing, and while newbies like the really excellent Scarlet Witch and Sunfire more than hold their own, you can't help but miss the presence of the more usable chatacters from X-Men Legends, such as Beast, Psylocke and Magma.
A nice touch, though, is if you assemble a team of heroes with matching secondary costumes (e.g. Age of Apocalypse), you automatically get a stat increase. Similarly, it's now much easier to distribute the stat points, with an Auto option that does the calculation for you, allowing you to focus in on the gameplay. Another HUGE improvement is the economic system of the game, Tech Bits are now in far more plentiful supply and items are relatively cheaper.
There are some drawbacks: The items system is still as rotten as ever, if you pick up too many things it's back to the Base to unload some in the Hero stash boxes (think Biohazard). But since this box is not bottomless, you need to sell the weaker items to Forge, too. This doesn't sound so bad in theory but it does break up the action pretty badly, and since the rare items are so very useful you do need to keep a close eye on what you're selling, equipping and moving about.
Basic gameplay remains pretty much the same, if overall a little easier than in X-Men Legends. It's fast, fun and very satisfying, and while there are some glitches here and there, the plentiful amount of Save points throughout means you never really spend too much time backtracking.
Maps are a pain; there's no way of viewing one overall map without loading up a Map sub-screen, so you do get lost sometimes. Similarly, loading times (as before) remain a second or so too long mid-mission, making leveling up and shuffling things about a bit more of a chore than it needs to be.
Graphics are much improved, though, with more detailed and colourful powers, costumes, enemies and stunning backdrops than before.
All in all, a sequel very worthy of its great predecessor, X-Men Legends 2 deserves a place on the shelf of all action-adventure game fans. Recommended.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Great Improvements in the game Nov 06, 2005
By Andrew Williams
When videogame sequels are released, gamers often wonder how it contrasts the original in the series. After numerous hours of game play with the first X-men Legends game and careful review of X-men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, gamers are going to get the same mutant bashing, level destroying fun of the first game with a considerable amount of improvements.
Compared to the first X-men legends game, the second in the series has many upgrades. First of all, the unexpected alliance of the X-men and Brotherhood members allows players to assume the role of not only the goody, goody X-men characters we all love, but also the malicious members who make up the brotherhood. Mutants such as Magneto, Juggernaut, Scarlet Witch, Sunfire, and Toad are suiting up to stop the evil that perils them.
In addition to adding some powerful new characters - and weeding out the weaker ones - Each character has a much larger array of skill up grades. In fact, more than double the amount of usable skills can be found for each character, as well as more passive skills, resulting in more ways to customize each of your mutants.
The introduction of acts in this installment is a huge improvement. Unlike the first game where players are forced to follow the storyline unable to return to the areas they have previously visited, Rise of Apocalypse takes players through five acts, which can be revisited at any time. This also allows there to be more hidden areas and items to be found, since players can revisit any area. New secret objects include data discs (increases the number of potions held) and tech stations (increases one of a characters four primary statistics), along with the old secret findables danger room discs, comic books, and sketchbooks.
The environments have improved and players are taken from the land of Genosha, to New York City, and even through the great pyramids in Egypt. In each of these lands players can find an abundance of new enemy baddies and bosses to test their new Mutant powers.
Overall this game has improved greatly. Every aspect from the characters, their abilities, the environments, enemies, and secrets has been upgraded. This game is a great installment to the X-men Legends series and is worthy of a place in any adventure lover's playstation.
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
If you liked the first, you'll love the second Sep 23, 2005
By Ed Sullivan
In the newest installment of X-men Legends, you and your x-men team up with the brotherhood of mutants to battle apocalypse, and his horsemen, with full excess to the brotherhoods team of mutant and a few new x-men.
At first glance the game looks and feels very much like the first X-men legends, the sound, the graphics (color, detail, and style, all similar to the first), and power-up systems are all taken almost exactly from the first, but it is the subdtle improvements that make the game worth buying. Most importantly (my personal feelings) is that you can go back to any level you've completed and search for secret areas and missed items.
The game has many new characters, in additon to almost all the orginals (no magma - replaced by sunfire who has almost all the same abilities), all characters have alternate costumes, and a new power-up system lets you customize the three main power buttons, so your not stuck with something like a defensive power you never use (anybody who played the first one knows that the denfensive power wasn't worth using). There are more secondary missions per level, and the area are a little less linear that the first.
This game feels more like an expansion pack than a sequel (not a bad thing), it took everything good about the first game transfered it to this game, and fixed almost every complaint I had. The game was devolped and shipped incredible fast after the release of the first one, so I am still fearful there may be glitches, but I'll just have to wait and see.
If you liked the first game, buy this. If you like the x-men, buy this. If you like RPG/action game, buy this.
8.7 out of 10
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