this game has a lot of stabing when you are wolverine but the game is really stupid. the graphics awful and the violence sad.
X-Men: The Official Game
(2006, Video Games - Action/Adventure, Rated T, Play it on: Windows)
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Common Sense says
Mutants have never been so boring -- tweens OK.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 11–15
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What Parents Need to Know
This review of X-Men: The Official Game was written by Chris Jozefowicz
Parents need to know that this game includes fistfights, explosions, and shooting. All of the violence is bloodless, but players punch, stab, and zap hundreds of realistic-looking enemies, as well as a healthy dose of mutants and monsters. The game is based more on the recent X-Men movies than the comic books and features the likenesses of many actors from the films.
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What’s the Story?
The storyline of X-MEN: THE OFFICIAL GAME serves as a prequel to the third movie in the franchise. Players alternate playing as three characters -- Iceman, Nightcrawler, and Wolverine -- in a series of short, character-specific missions, winding through a convoluted story that involves both evil mutants and hostile military forces. Along the way they team up with other, non-playable X-Men from the movies and comics.
The game gives each character a distinct style: Iceman flies on a platform of ice and fires freezing rays; Nightcrawler teleports and swings acrobatically into fights; and fan-favorite Wolverine claws his way though enemy masses as a straight-up brawler.
Is It Any Good?
Too bad this uninspired game gets bogged down in repetitive action. Players will tire of marching through sterile levels, facing the same sort of obstacles again and again (such as Wolverine's endless slashing though enemy soldiers).
The game's presentation is also dull. A few of the cut scenes use colorful comic panels, but more often the story is advanced in a kind of movie/comic book hybrid: voice-overs (contributed by the stars of the movie, including Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart) on top of lifeless stills drawn in a realistic style. Even the varied environments -- which include Japanese gardens, secret laboratories, and the Brooklyn Bridge -- are quiet and empty.
Publisher’s Details
Developer: Activision
Released on: 5/30/2006, Price: $39.99, not online enabled
ESRB Rating: T for Violence
Released on: 5/30/2006, Price: $39.99, not online enabled
ESRB Rating: T for Violence
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I rate this title pause for age 6 and give it
yeah some game
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I rate this title pause for age 0 and give it
two words
repetitive, boring
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I rate this title pause for age 0 and give it
Confusing..
Don't actually play this game, thinking that its goin to be lots of fun, and you're going to enjoy it as long as you can. Because, in reality, this game is absolute crap!! I mean, sure it supports a bridge between the 2nd and 3rd movies, but its just not worth the money.
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Fun
It's very fun but the Iceman parts can get hard. Over all I loved this game. I am one of the biggest X-Men fans you'll ever meet!
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