Who can you play? The list is long, though not full of too many surprises. But it's all in the game of improving your hacking and slashing skills - X-Men-style. Sure, you collect stuff, find gear (belts, armor and gloves), upgrade and customize your characters. You and three AI team members (or, now, three other online buddies) huddle, enter environments, and proceed to bash the living daylights out of everything that moves. Which makes it different and refreshing in a very real sense there are no orcs, elves, gnomes, or anything remotely D&D about the characters (though I admit, there still are quite a few caves). The cool thing, however, is it's X-Men dungeon crawling. Rise of Apocalypse is pure, familiar, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance-style dungeon crawling. In the grand scheme of things, nothing major has changed here. You'll probably need about 15 hours to finish it, and to beat it completely and collect everything, add in another couple. For all those gamers, comic book fans, X-Men movie lovers, RPG fans, and action fans, and all the cross-over folks in between, which means a lot of you, Rise of the Apocalypse provides an abundant surplus of X-Men and Brotherhood characters to play as - offline or online. Playing with your friends online without a split-screen. Powering up to ridiculous levels and smashing the crap out of every wall, cave, jungle, enemy, or anything in your path. Dungeon Crawling, Mutant Style What was that promise? Unadulterated X-men fiending to the first degree. But for what it is, X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse is a solid, first-class action-RPG that delivers on its promise. What else is there? Following the well-tread Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance formula with tweaks, additions, and the uncanny X-Men themselves, Activision's new Marvel-ized dungeon-crawler delivers everything you think it does, but the basic premise - the core game design - hasn't changed at all.
It's got four-player online co-op, it's got tons of playable characters including a healthy range of X-men and the Brotherhood of Evil, and it's bigger, more interactive, and it's re-organized for more efficient team-based leveling up. In classic sequel tradition, Raven Software has made the action RPG, X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, the game that X-Men Legends should have been.
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