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X-Menestiny -
This game was made by Silicon Knights, who made Too Human, which is still the 8th best selling RPG on the 360 as of 4 months ago. This had me really excited for the game, however I know they're in a legal battle with Unreal over their failure to be able to handle all of their needs with the Too Human game. So I didn't expect the game to be great looking, but as long as it was deep and fun I wouldn't care.
The graphics are really sub-par, like early 360 days. The characters throughout the game look great, but the enviroments pretty much suck. You start off the game in San Fran, were a rally is destroyed. Xavier is dead, Cyclops runs the X-Men, and are now based on the West Coast due to being overrun by the purifiers after Xavier was killed by Bastion. These aren't spoilers in case you're worried, it's all told at the start.
You get to choose between 3 mutants whose powers awaken at the rally. There's a plain white guy football player, a small asian chick, and a white yet spanish kid named Adrian Luca. You get a choice between 3 basic powers: dark matter-which lets you form blades and move real fast to attack, force field-which lets you create forces to defend and attack, and Matter Displacement-which lets you readjust matter like heavy fists to punch, or feet to be immovable. As you play, you come across certain events, that “awaken” new levels of your powers. You can also gain XP orbs, that you can use to buy new levels of those powers.
Along the way, by finding them or completing challenges you get X-genes and suits. The suits give you touches of the superhero whose costume you're wearing. Like Colusses gives you the ability to harden and take less damage. You get a slot for offensive, defensive, and utility. Offensive, like the Iceman offensive gene gives you the ability to add frost to your attacks, Wolverine defensive gene gives you HP regen, and utilities add things like super speed, xtra health bar, flight, etc.
The gameplay is simple beat'em up type style, even on hard difficulty the game is pretty easy. You just walk around beating up the same simple enemies. The game isn't deep, but it's nice every now and then to play a simple game. It's not worth $60 so give it a rent, your kids will love it most likely. It's only about 6 hrs long maybe 8 if you explore what little there is. It's only 8 missions long, and really has no replayability except for the extra ending. You can either choose to join Magneto, or the X-Men so it has 2 endings.
Overall I give it a 6.5/10 for kids and 5.5/10 for adults and as always 5 is average. There's lots of cameos in this game which makes it kinda fun to see all the characters. There's also a very wide range of them, from the brotherhood, to X-men, MRD, UMen, etc. Once again it's just a fun simple game to rent and play over the weekend if you want a break from all the hardcore games.
P.S. For those that read the comics, these 3 characters will be added into the comics soon, so they will eventually matter, they aren't just some stupid nobodies, lol.
I haven't played it yet, but I followed this games development for some time. Was really curious about it since I love Silicon Knights ever since Eternal Darkness…but basically everything you have said about the game is pretty much what I was expecting it too be. So that being said I am glad I didn't buy it but I know a friend who did so I will probably just end up borrowing it from her.
Only one of the playable characters interested me. I believe his name was Adrian. The one who in his bio states he was raised by a Mutant Hating father…you know the whole “becoming the thing you were raised to hate” dynamic.