When secrecy is a must, the stodgy A. He may be the best there is at what he does, but Wolvie still has a few gaming lessons to learn. This game is tough.. Also, while the game looks all right, the environments lack detail. I was even forced to replay a half-hour stretch of the game six times. Activision October Marvel's most popular character finally gets his own solo adventure none of that ensemble-cast stuff here! Playing a little bit like Tekken 4's Assault Force mode, Wolverine must slash his way through level after level of cyber-suited bad guys, while punishing famous Marvel villains along the way.
It sounds tough. While Wolverine's no stranger to videogames, comic-book readers know the full range of the X-Man's abilities have previously been slighted on the consoles. What with his signature pig-stickers, it's always been easy to overlook the ol' Canucklehead's other mutagenic gifts. Of course, Wolvie's claws will always take center stage, and developer Gene Pool has devised plenty of satisfying ways for you to use 'em in its upcoming action game, X2: Wolverine's Revenge.
You'll get a meat-and-pota-toes series of wild slashes, perfect for tearing through an equally redundant menu of generic goons, while other acrobatics include somersaulting, sliding, and spin kicking. Thankfully, though, Revenge goes a bit beyond this programming-by-the-numbers by letting you cull these clones with several flashy finishing moves.
More than just lethal tinsel, these special attacks can be indispensable in boss battles. For example, to best the Juggernaut , you'll need to pry free his helmet with aerial attacks before you and X-pal Colossus can finish him with a straight-from-the-comic Fastball Special combo attack. So, what's the fuss about the furball's other, often overlooked, talents, you ask? Well, for one, if Wolvie's always doing what he does best, his accelerated healing factor won't kick in; he has to sheath his claws in order to regain lost health.
But it's access to his heightened senses that really puts you inside this killing. Revenge is designed so stealth is, at least some of the time, a viable alternative to wholesale slaughter. When you hold down the L2 button, the screen goes gauzy and red, and environmental noise dulls to a quiet drone. Suddenly, you're at one with your surroundings: You can follow previously undetectable footprints, scan the UV spectrum for evidence of booby traps, and surprise your quarry from the shadows.
Wolverine can be cool and collected or a savage berserker--it's really up to you. Adding welcome depth to the breadth of these genetic blessings is a story line crafted by comics scribe Larry Hama.
So, despite having titular ties to the X-Men movie sequel due out this May, Revenge's plot has much more in common with the long-running comic book. It also means that underlying the standard series of lackeys and locked doors is a solid story that Letts calls "fast and punchy.
There, he must locate an antidote to the viral bomb that's just been discovered in his system. Yeah, the infamy of shoddy superhero titles could be Wolverine's real worst enemy. But if Revenge's gameplay consistently puts his powers to meaningful use, perhaps the clawed one can escape the comic-book-to-videogame jinx.
The X-men's bad boy is back, starring in Wolverine's Revenge , coinciding with the movie release of X2. While the game doesn't follow the movie's storyline, it does delve into the mysterious past of Wolverine. Lucky for fans, there are 28 official X-Men games out there to provide virtually any X-Men-related experience a gamer could ask for. Here's all 28 official X-Men games and the playable characters within them.
This was the first ever X-Men video game. This game was available only on DOS. Taking place in an alternate Marvel universe , players control Pyro, Storm, Cyclops, and Wolverine to defeat the Freedom Force and a powerful character known only as Adversary. This game was created for the NES. Wolverine has been captured by Magneto and Sabretooth and stranded on a deserted island.
Players must guide him through a wild adventure to escape the island. This game was released on the Sega Genesis and the Super Nintendo and was sold majorly on the popularity of Spider-Man.
This was an arcade cabinet that found global acclaim. Cyclops, Colossus, Wolverine, Storm, Night Crawler, Dazzler were all realized with graphics that couldn't have been provided on home video game consoles at the time.
This was another X-Men game released on the Sega Genesis. This was a sequel to the Genesis game that was released the previous year. This was released on the Sega Genesis and the Super Nintendo. Wolverine returns to Canada on a hunt for answers about his past. Players control him to battle Lady Deathstrike, Sabretooth and a whole host of other Wolverine rivals.
Many fans have speculated that the series' slumber has been a consequence of Fox owning rights to X-Men films while Disney nearly owns the rest of Marvel. However, now that the mutants have returned to Marvel with Disney's purchase of Fox, many fans have begun wondering how the X-Men will be integrated with the MCU. Hopefully, Disney's ownership of the property will see them returning to the games industry in a meaningful way again for all X-Men fans.
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Share Share Tweet Email. Arron Kluz Articles Published. Read Next in industry. Back in the last Genesis episode, the X-Men were battling it out with Magneto.
This time in X-Men 2: Clone Wars, they face off against That technological virus, known as the Phalanx, is attacking Earthlings and overtaking their minds, making them nothing more than obedient servants. The good news is that the X-Men are unaffected by the Phalanx; the bad news is the virus has developed several strategies, including the manufacture of X-Men clones, to finish off the only people who can put a stop to it.
Beast, Cyclops, Gambit, Nightcrawler, Psylocke, and Wolverine star in X-Men 2, but only one mutant- or two in a two-player game - can be used per mission.
Since each X-Man has a diverse collection of weapons and abilities, a large part of the challenge lies in determining which member of the force is best equipped for each stage. With no save feature and fairly challenging game play, X-Men 2 could have been a very frustrating title. But with eight lives per player and strategically placed health power-ups, the game stays interesting and enjoyable instead of baffling. I've got a deal that you absolutely can't refuse.
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OK, now that we understand each other, you may read on. The characters are larger, the action is faster, and the levels have more variety. This one is gonna be here soon, so look for our X-cellent coverage! After the huge success of the first X-Men game for the Genesis, Sega took its time putting out the second. Hopefully, its time was well spent and several I improvements have been added. A wider variety of mutants, new moves, and tougher bosses are all promised when it's released in March.
More coming next month! Drag your admantium claws out of the closet one more time! A large X-Men cast returns to the Genesis in this good-looking platform game. It doesn't take X-trasensory mutant powers to notice the cool enhancements in this latest X-Men game. ProTip: To beat this Sentinel boss, crouch and blast the revolving squares below the yellow beam, then jump over his projectiles.
With these seven heroes, you battle the Phalanx, an alien virus that wants to rule the world by cloning the X- Men.
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