X-Men Legends offers a co-op action RPG for Marvel's mutants. A team to build, isometric action and up to four-player local multi. A real community success.
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Category
Action RPG4 players12+
Co-op
Description
A Raven Software and Activision action RPG released in 2004, the first X-Men Legends franchise entry. The player leads a 4-X-Men team (Wolverine, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm out of 15+ playable) through a Magneto plot and the Brotherhood of Mutants. Hack-and-slash team combat with signature mutant abilities, light RPG with leveling, 4-player local cooperative mode. Particularly successful Marvel adaptation.
X-Men Legends review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
3/5
Music
★★★★★
"Memorable"
4/5
Story
★★★★★
"Captivating"
On PS2, X-Men Legends stands out for its staging of multiplayer. Up to four mutants act together on one screen, seen in a three-quarter overhead view, each recognizable by their colors and power effects. The shared interface lines up the team's gauges side by side, and fights become a group choreography where you coordinate attacks and healing, couch-play oblige.
The story takes as its heroine a young mutant recruited by Professor Xavier's school, through whom the player discovers the world's fear of mutants. Between the novice's difficult integration, the threat of Magneto's Brotherhood and a wider peril, the plot unfolds a theme dear to the comics, the place of the different in a society that dreads them.
An action RPG from Raven Software, X-Men Legends levels up a team of four mutants in isometric view, with leveling, unlockable powers and co-op for up to four players, in a story faithful to the X-Men universe. The ability to build your team, the variety of powers and the co-op pleasure win over fans of comics and hack and slash. The repetition of the clashes weighs on solo play. A title for fans of co-op action RPGs and the X-Men universe on PS2.
