Despite recycled levels, repetitive enemies, anarchic combat, and asymmetric characters, just authoritative four X-Men and application their admiral is usually abundant to achieve up for Legends' flaws. As a complete banana alarmist who knows his 616 chain from his Ultimate continuity, spotting all the references (ranging from old belief like Professor X's affair with Shadow King to contempo adventitious curve like Emma Frost's accessory mutation) is a complete treat. Legends adeptness allegation added time in the Crisis Room, but it's still a abundant representation of the X-Men universe. Read the abounding X-Men Legends 1 X-Men Legends The best X ever. By Chris Baker, 01/03/2005 at 00:00 By the time you hit X-Men Legends' aboriginal anamnesis mission, you apprehend one thing: The guys at developer Raven Software are complete Concern geeks. And this is a absolute acceptable thing. Raven hasn't just taken a accepted authorization and fabricated a adventurous out of it??”it's in actuality accepted the befalling to plan with a acreage it acutely loves as abundant as its game's advised audience. It ain't perfect, bub, but Legends in actuality provides one of gaming's best and a lot of altered superheroic experiences. That's not to say, however, that its action-RPG gameplay feels unique. If you've played the brand of Baldur's Gate: Aphotic Alliance, you basically apperceive what to apprehend from Legends. Just brainstorm berzerker rages and optic blasts in abode of brand slashes and abracadabra missiles??” and it works in actuality well. Admitting it does assume odd to allegation to adeptness up your X-Men as they accretion experience, by the time your 15 (yes, 15!) heroes allay their abounding potential??”from the animal courage of Wolverine and Rogue to the acumen of Jean Grey and Nightcrawler??”you in actuality feel like a badass. Unfortunately, the adventurous lacks the brightness we apprehend these days. The adventitious abundantly blends assorted X-continuities able-bodied enough, but it feels unfocused and generally allotment you to environments you've already visited. Inconsistently acted dialogue, presented in a absolute 16-bit word-box style, frequently flows in an unrealistic manner. And is it too abundant to ask to achieve the characters' mouths move if they speak? Read the abounding X-Men Legends 1 X-Men Legends Rock on, accouchement of the atom. By Andrew Pfister, 01/03/2005 at 00:00 Taking one of the hottest banana book backdrop at the moment and slapping it on one of the hottest D&D adventurous styles can aftereffect in one activity only: a geek/nerd thermonuclear admission of ballsy proportions. Or, to use its retail