Genesis

X-Men

I used to think comic books were for sissies but Sega has changed my mind with X-Men. No more wimpy little characters, this game delivers a man sized challenge along with excellent graphics an great playability. Get it now!

Plus and minus points aside, SEGA's X-Men was a solid platformer. The game may have scrolled choppily, but it played better than a lot of smooth-scrolling games. In this reviewer's opinion, it was more enjoyable than X-Men 2: The Clone Wars. One of the most endearing factors of the SEGA's X-Men lies in the game's ability to offer various "flavors" of the same premise. So if you're looking for an addition to your action/adventure library, or find it for sale somewhere, pick it up.

Any fan of the X-Men will most likely be a fan of this game. They'll just probably wish they had adamantium claws of their own to drive through their TV screens in frustration.

The characters look a bit pixelated, and their pictures on the menu screen are so poorly drawn that you can't even tell which one is which! The backgrounds, depicting futuristic worlds, are rather generic and dull. The sound is the worst, with bad music and annoying, cheesy sound effects (enemies "pop" when they die). Control is fair, except for Nightcrawler's teleport ability, which is very flakey and ineffective. One unique feature is the ability to switch characters at any time, but the difficulty is excessive, even on the easy level. There are plenty of cheap, unavoidable hits, and it's tough to get back life once you've lost it. There is a also two-player simultaneous mode that doesn't work too well.