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by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/25/2005, 6:50pm PDT

FABIO wrote:

Just started this. Good/useless/broken characters/powers/stats? I've only gotten to the first 4 player mission, but all the ranged characters with no area-attack seem horrible, and all the melee characters seem godlike. Jean seems fun since her starting power is just like telekinesis in psi-ops, but it hardly does any damage and drains a crapload of energy so she doesn't seem that practical.

My favorite part so far is the game just not telling you how to use some powers. Flying? Ice/lava skating? It took me forever to figure out you had to hit certain buttons in mid-jump.

Wolverine and Gambit are great fun. All the puzzles seem centered around Iceman. You have to be careful not to exhaust Cyclops. Beast is in his human phase and not in any costume I've ever seen him wear so he really becomes just this chunky guy who sometimes walks on his feet. I hope you grow to hate Magma as much as I do -- she stinks of some frustrated Failed Bendis trying to insert his own story into the first playable X-Men game in quite sometime with never-ending awfulness. Yes, a young girl coming of age and dealing with her lava-based powers ... that sums up the X-Men to me! Jubilee might be okay, but I'd never, ever use her, not since her career-ending performance in "Marvel vs DC." Nightcrawler is nice if you have less than four people playing as he'll sometimes whisk you away to safety. If you have four people playing you can have fun teleporting him to an area where there are enemies and then dying as the game somehow doesn't let you teleport back. I really hope we get to play as Thunderbird in a flashback for the sequel. I never got far enough to see Colossus - they really stretched his arrival out. The first Juggernaut mission was awesome. Come to think of it, so was everything involving Sentinels. Storm's okay, but Rogue seemed to die fairly often and at least for me her ability to fly petered out fast.

I can't remember if Angel is in the game or not, but if he is we never used him. I'd sooner control Hawkman.

ICJ