Before taking the Marvel license and turning it into one of the most popular fighting game franchises of all time by combining it with their own stable of characters, Capcom’s licensed output mostly came from their excellent Disney games in the 8-16 bit era like Ducktales, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid and Goof Troop among countless other classics. After takes…
There were a lot of X-Men video games released before the first X-Men Legends, some of them pretty great, but none really got the property right like the Legends series. Whereas console limitations had it such that the most X-Men you could have on-screen were two at a time (remember this is years before Konami’s arcade game made it…
With the prelude to Civil War now over with just a week until Captain America: Civil War his theatres, a countdown has begun: The Countdown to Apocalypse. All throughout the month of May and leading up to the release of Fox’s X-Men: Apocalypse, I’ll be shining the spotlight on games where Apocalypse features prominently. Expect reviews of the following…
When I was growing up and starting my seemingly life long love of video games, I started with the NES, which didn’t have the best track record when it came to licensed games, at least starting out. When I became aware of the X-Men through comics, the animated series, Marvel trading cards and the Toy…
Fighting games as a genre really took off in the 16-bit era due in no small part to the one, two punch of Capcom’s Street Fighter II and Midway’s Mortal Kombat. Getting games like that to work on 8-Bit devices where the input is limited to really two buttons was never really that good an idea, but it never…
Back around the time when promotion was starting to ramp up for Activision’s X-Men: Mutant Academy, I failed to see why the world needed it. I understood why it was coming out as Fox’s first X-Men film was on the way and there was money to be made, but save that, it never felt like a game I needed. As…
If you’ll recall from my review of this game on the SNES, I’m probably one of the few people in the world who took it easy on this game, despite knowing full well its myriad problems. Finishing this game, a feat I once thought impossible, is something that I will always look back fondly upon…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 07/26/2013 Raven Software, the developers of the Uncaged Edition of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, had built up quite a large amount of cred with comic fans in their previous efforts. In the PS2/GC/Xbox era, they were responsible for the highly praised X-Men Legends series and its spiritual successor Marvel Ultimate Alliance.…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 07/26/2013 The Wii version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine is the only game based on the film to exist on another platform, as you can also purchase this game on the PlayStation 2. Right from the start the primary problem with this version is the Wii controller itself and I would…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 07/25/2013 To but it bluntly, X-Men Origins: Wolverine on the PSP is not very good, but I do have to give credit to both developer Griptonite and publisher Activision. In Griptonite’s case, they developed not one, but two different versions of this IP and hammered out two completely different experiences.…
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