Reviewed by Dyson Turner
Spider man and X-Men some of the coolest characters and most
known character in video game history. How can they combine
to make a game this bad? This thing just doesn't make since
no one not even a huge fan would like this. First off its
ugly the graphics are bad, the music is non-existent the
game play is bad. What's wrong with this game? What's right
with this game seriously nothing. Not even the cool
characters to save this game. My first impression was Ugh
what crap. I can't believe this game is this bad. The
characters and graphics actually looked worst than NES
games, and so was the sound. The controls were poor too,
there was no options what so ever, and this game just plain
sucked. Each character only did one thing except Spiderman
he could swing on a web too. There wasn't that many stages
and they were pretty hard I'll give it that much.
Story 0.5/10
I'll give the story something, I think that it was based on
a Spiderman comic book I doubt it though. Basically some one
kidnapped the X-Men, which I can't understand. How can some
one kidnap X-Men with all their powers that just doesn't
make since. So Spiderman some how finds out, and he tries to
infiltrate Arcade's hide out to save them. When he gets in
he gets caught and Arcade sends all of them to places of
their worst nightmare. This story is pretty basic, and been
done so many times. That's why I doubt this game was based
on a comic book, if it was it could have been way better
than this, this is pathetic.
Graphics 0.0/10
The graphics on this game was horrible. All the characters
barely and That's just barely resembled the comic books
character. They were real small and hard to see they were
also hard to control. The backgrounds seriously didn't' help
the game at all. They were very generic below generic
actually and pretty horrific. Most of the time when they
tried to put things in the backgrounds it looked like
nothing and I really couldn't make it out. The enemies
looked ok but they came at you from all directions you
couldn't tell what they were and they were done pretty
badly. Even he opening scene looks bad and looked like they
were drawn by a two year old and not a comic book or video
game artist. The bosses you fought were the same size as the
heroes, most of them were famous and X-Man and Spiderman
fought before on cartoons and TV. You could distinguish them
slightly by their colors. The graphics really killed this
game even more.
Sound 0.0/10
The sound was basically non-existent, and you really didn't'
hear much. Only the opening theme actually resembled music
book it was the same tune over and over every 5 bars or so.
It was done well at all and sounded like typical Genesis
game music, probably worst. The sound effects were perhaps
worth you didn't even here the sound of Wolverine using his
claws, going in and out. Nor were any of the other limited
sound effects really good even made you feel like you were
playing a good game. Not only did the sounds make the
graphics seem some how worst, they were bad all together.
This is definitely a game you listen to wit the sound off
because that techno pop gets rather annoying rather quickly.
Game Play 0.5/10
This game is for 1 player only, thankfully some how this
game may have been somewhat enjoyable if you had a friend
along. The controls were probably the worst feature on the
entire game; they were so sloppy and so lose. You could fall
of the platforms so easily, and most of the time you would
die when doing this in a stage likes Cyclops or Gambits. The
characters did move fast I will give them that but they were
hard to see. Cyclops and Gambit both had limit use of their
mutant powers so once you ran out of cards with Gambit it
was basically just trying to run through the entire stage
without stopping. Then some characters like Spiderman could
use more attacks, which I felt, isn't right. The only cool
thing was the ability to swing on Spiderman's web. Other
than that there was nothing fun to do and it soon wears thin
after a few minutes. The difficulty on this game was just
too hard from this game to be this crappy. You had to get
through two separate stages with each character, and some of
them will seem near impossible, except for Spiderman and
Wolverine's stage. The difficulty is hard and there isn't'
and save or password feature.
Overall 1.0/10
A pretty pathetic game this is, and I wouldn't touch it
again if you paid me. This game was just that bad, not even
the super heroes who were in this game and with all their
fame could save it. The fun factor is extraordinarily low,
if you count swinging on Spiderman web a day at Disney World
fun then, well you might find this fun. The replay value is
nil as well, That's even if you make it through this game
once, not only is it bad its highly frustrating. A Lot of
things could have been done to make this better like,
Graphics and Sound from the original X-Men game, and the
game play of the original Spiderman is what everyone was
hoping for, this falls flat of what those games had. I
seriously don't think there was anything good about this
game or fun, this game is the type that you rent, play for a
minute and can't wait to you can return it and not have to
look at it again. It's just that bad seriously. Even if you
were the biggest Spider Man & X-Men in the world I would
advise highly against purchasing this old dinosaur of a game.
