X-Men Legends was the first in a series of 4-person co-op games focused on using teams of Marvel superheroes (and sometimes villains) and franchise fapping. The 3rd installment in this series was Marvel Ultimate Alliance and the 4th installment is a game being released just next week: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. Because I have a ridiculous love for these games I’m going to briefly and nostalgically look at the original!
It’s probably most important to first note that X-Men Legends was a game with a weak plot, generic backdrops, and on occasion controller snappingly frustrating difficulty. The 4-man co-op aspect of the game is a mess as well with portions of the game only accessible as single player, making your three buddies sit around waiting for their turn to jump back into the game. Legends sets itself up as the weakest of the three games so far, but luckily the other two were able to hammer out a lot of these problems.
Everyone knows that X-Men Legends is not a game to be played for the story or scenery. It’s all about playing as your favorite characters from the comics, which Legends does fantastically. Jubilee, Emma Frost, Magma…and probably some of the less popular mutants like what’s-his-name…the dude with the claws… Anyway, they’re all there.
The best thing Legends does is introduce the 4 character/1 screen co-op even in solo mode (granted Lost Vikings did it with 3 characters way before Legends, but shut up). This allowed the player to not only control their favorite X-Man but their favorite X-MEn! Like the phrase goes, “the more the merrier.” It’s a winning formula that’s some much prettier and more varied button-mashing offspring. But here at 72pc we don’t look at those qualities. We respect our roots AND our video game elders. Just play X-Men Legends once and you’ll agree that it feels pretty damn old.
I’m fucking stoked about MUA 2. Release date delivery TODAY from Amazon.