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Only on the occasional boss level is there any need to block, and even then it's so blatantly obvious that you're required to do this that it boggles the mind.

Nor is there any need to worry about careful use of block or evade - just steaming in like a button-mashing nutter does the trick for most of the game. The push attack (with B) is basically redundant and there's no need to bother jumping (with A) either. With a control system evidently designed for pre-school gamers (the 12 certificate is an insult) you can hammer through the game almost exclusively pressing X (for a fast but weaker flurry of punches and kicks), or Y (for a stronger but slower attack). Wolverine, from WolverhamptonДЇor the bulk of the game you're stuck with Wolverine, which is a real shame as his levels are, without doubt, the most painful example of lazy beat 'em up game design for a generation.

#X MEN THE OFFICIAL GAME PLUS#

The only plus is that the game clocks in at under six hours, meaning you can make the pain end relatively swiftly. In theory, a game where you're constantly switching character and therefore playing styles ought to offer a good template for another half-decent superhero game, but not one of them provides more than the absolute bare minimum playability that you'd expect these days - and at times it borders on the unacceptable.ДЄfter a trio of wholly undemanding tutorial missions the scene is set for a couple of dozen levels of the most generic basic videogaming we've seen for a long time. Set 'loosely' between the events of the second and third movie, the action centres on the three distinct abilities of three of the mutant heroes: Nightcrawler, Iceman and Wolverine.

Case in point X-Men: The Official Game, a tired, generic beat 'em up so bored with its own pointless existence that it even decided to commit suicide on us shortly before the (anti) climax. There's a very good reason why people are instantly suspicious about movie-licensed games - because nine times out of ten they're a monumental waste of time that insult the intelligence of even the most dim-witted gamer.

X men the official game