X-Men the Official Game Review(Playstation 2)

As a big X-Men fan, I was really eager to give X-Men: The Official Game a try. The game offers fans a chance to see what happens before the movies, features vocal talents like Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman, and has a cool Mutant evolution system to upgrade your characters. Sounds promising, right?

The game starts off with the X-Men returning to Alkali Lake in an attempt to find the missing Cerebro components stolen by Colonel William Stryker. Little do the X-Men know that evil still lurks within the Alkali Lake facility, and a new master plan is brewing that will set the stage for X-Men: The Last Stand. You’ll take control of Wolverine, Iceman, and Nightcrawler, battle familiar enemies like Sabertooth, Multiple-Man, Silver Samurai, and Deathstrike, fight alongside Storm and Colossus, and master your mutant powers along the way!

As I mentioned earlier, this is a completely original story co-written by Zak Penn, one of the film’s screenwriters, and the legendary comic book writer Chris Claremont. The game will tie together the two movies, giving X-Men fans a glimpse at what happens in-between. Unfortunately, the story jumps around a lot and becomes a little hard to follow after a while. As you switch from one character to another, the story loses a lot of focus. Nightcrawler is chasing some ghosts around while Wolverine heads to Japan in…