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X-Men: The Arcade Game
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1992 Konami - Konami - Arcade
X-Men is somewhat of an old Konami arcade game. It's still a lot of fun, though, if you like sidescrolling beat-'em-ups that are in the same vain as Final Fight or Streets of Rage. You get to pick from 6 X-Men (Cyclops, Colossus, Wolverine, Storm, Night Crawler and . . . Dazzler . . . ) to fight as through levels until you get to the boss, which is a super villain from the Marvel univers, like Juggernaut or the Blob.
Graphics: 8
At the time, these were really good. The frame rate is nice, there are big explosions, lots of color and the characters are done well. For the most part. The Blob is supposed to be 8 feet tall, yet he's only a little taller than the 6'4" Colossus (Who also looks a little skinny). I'm nitpicking, though. Anyway, though the graphics look pretty cool, they can get pretty pixelated. The explosions are pixelated and the characters are somewhat pixelated. All in all, it was a nice looking game.
Sound: 10
The sound in this game rocks . . . I like the music in it. It's fast paced and does well to set the feeling for the level. The first stage song is especially cool . . . "Here come the heroes . . . to save the world from destruction . . . they are X-MEN!!". It's cheesy-cool. Other than that, the explosions, hit effects, etc. sound nice, as do the lines that the villains have before the fight.
Control: 10
It's just a simple 3 button setup. One button is attack, one is jump, and the other is your mutant power button. You can move in 8 directions as with any other game like it.
Gameplay: 10
This game is a damn good beat-'em-up, along the lines of The Simpsons arcade game. It's a simple game, but great fun when you just feel like giving it a whirl. It feels like the comic book with all the bright color, story and lines that the villains throw out, making it that much cooler. I'm a big fan of Marvel, so that's a nice plus for me. It's fun hitting the bosses out of their lines when they burst on screen. Good stuff. It's pretty basic beat-'em-up stuff, with the special moves and such. Your mutant power is like your desperation move that you can pull out on bosses or when enemies are plentiful on screen. An example being Colossus', where he forms a huge ball of energy around himself, hurting every enemy in range. All in all, it's a well done game and one I still like to play.
//Russell
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Staff Comments of Awesomeness
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August 4, 2011 - 07:25 BST - Nate
It's time to end this somewhat hiatus and start writing video game reviews for no one again. Funny that after all of these months of college and unemployment I start wasting time with video games and shitty reviews once I finally get a job.
Also, maybe I'll start reviewing games that have been released within the past six months for once thanks to my new disposable (heavy emphasis on this word) income. Maybe.
June 12, 2010 - 15:30 GMT - Benny
I got an urge to collect crap for my chao in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. I had quite a lot of fun until I realised that I already had a chao with 99 in all stats. That took a bit of the fun away but I have another 16 chao I can level up. But now I'm in a mood to play Zelda instead.May 31, 2010 - 15:53 GMT - Benny
I'm quite glad I went through with this The Green Shell idea. Combined with Hair, I've managed to build up a little backlog of updates that could last me at least a week. Although I have a feeling I'll put out a few of them at a time, which means I'll run out sooner. But yeah, while it's not necessarily easy to come up with shitty ideas for it, I have been looking around at a lot of random video game stuff over the last 12 hours and it's quite fun. I also need to play some more Star Ocean; I've got reptile aliens to kill and annoying girls to ignore! My hatred for Welch has gone down a lot since I got Lymle into my party. That annoying fuck pisses me off, 'kay.
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