X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse (PlayStation 2, 2005)

I bought this game because I had read some positive reviews of it, had been a big x-men fan, and like role-playing games. Just so you don't have to read this whole thing to get my take on it...its a pretty good game and worth buying. I bought mine on ebay and including shipping paid about $10. The one I bought however didn't have the jacket so it took me a while to figure some things out...like how to save (you need to select 'extract' on the blue X's that appear throughout the game as waypoints...yeah call me retarded). Anyway I probably spent about 30-40 hours completing all the missions, going through all the maps, and beating the game.

The thing I like most about it was the extended game play. I hate buying games that only take 10 hours to beat and then you're bored playing it again. Almost all the regular x-men or brotherhood characters are playable and you can unlock other characters by completing certain tasks....some characters are definately more powerful than others but I'll let you figure that out for yourself.

Some of the things that weren't so great was the mapping and objective completion. The map works great it just shows you too much. It points exactly where the objectives are so if you don't like to explore then you can just run through the game and knock out the objectives quickly. The only other thing that bothered me was lack of exploring element. There are many side quests but the maps are kind of like diablo 2's, all you need to do is run around and get all the red area out of the map and you've seen everything (you'll know what I'm talking about if you start playing the game) so there isn't much to explore or discover.

On the whole it was entertaining...it gives you a lot of insight into the x-men world and the videos try to capture all the characters and how they interact pretty well.