How did this game do well enough to deserve a sequel? I had a friend who bought it and he returned it a few days later, and I can't blame him. We both played it and the AI was just terrible on it, most noticably if you accidentally took a spill off a cliff, then half the team would follow you in a lemminglike fasion before you could switch to them.

Also it had terrible instances of video game selectiveness, as in, what worked in one place didn't work in others simply because the designers didn't intend it, like Iceman being able to make bridges over instadeath chasms.

I'm all for any game having coop, and I'm all for games with Xmen in them (though to date the only good one has been X-Men:COTA and all the other Capcom derivatives-I guess the Wolverine game wasn't too bad either.) Maybe the game got a lot better later on, and from the previews (which were all cut-scene) it looked like it had a pretty cool story, but we thought it was so bad that we couldn't stick with it long enough to get past the ice area that was 2-3 levels in.

Man give credit to Vicarious Visions.......they did the PSP port plus they added a ton of new content.

Okay. I'm not too familiar with the marvel universe beyond the big characters. So, who the hell is the giant head?

http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/xmenlegends2/X-Men%20Legends%20II/3/thumbs/927395_20050627_screen001.jpg

Good preview Chris. I enjoyed the original (being a fan othe X-Men/Marvel universe) and am looking forward to this one.

So no Live support. Fuck 'em then.

yay for online coop!

I play tested this awhile ago (in jan-feb)....it was cool, but just too easy/childish? It didnt have the feel or coolness of baldurs gate (the game I think it should be aiming for) It was way to easy and there seemed to be about 500 skills that just do about the same fucking shit, just a diffrent animation.

For example, wolverine had like 10 diffrent claw attacks, but you only used one cause they pretty much did the same thing...

They asked me how it could get more like "baldurs gate" and I was kinda speechless...but I figured they just needed to tweak some stuff, tone down some things....games arent fun when you start with 50000 armor and you pick up a suit for 500060000 more armor....stuff like that.

Still, that was awhile ago and they have been working on it for awhile now, hopefully they have improved it alot, because I love games like these.

I just hope cyclops isn't a total wuss this time around...

http://penny-arcade.com/view.php?date=2004-09-29&res=l

nice write up. my one question is about this line:

it's a little disappointing that more wasn't done to craft a specifically portable game.


I would think that having it being nigh-identical to the big-box versions would be the highest compliment for a portable system.

I agree wholeheartedly with the coop comment. Far too many games ignore this aspect of gameplay.

I applaud turning something that is usually a solo deal into a more social thing.

"PS2, Xbox, and GameCube versions feature four-player split screen action"

Remo I'm going to read past the second paragraph now and hope I find no more errors :[

Too linear.

I'm glad the only complaint about the PSP version is that it's "just a port." It's about time we see some games for the PSP that can really show off what it does. What's the ETA?

Where's the Ultimate Spiderman coverage? Did I miss it?

There's a PC version? That's awesome. I assume there's no compatability between the platforms online?

If this game has native widescreen support it should be nearly perfect with online coop.

I loved the original, and I will be sure to pick this up for my Xboxen.

The first game was pretty easy, but it was very enjoyable. I'll probably get this one when it comes out.