X-Men: The Official Game
X-Men: The Official Game is positioned between the second and third X-Men movies. This particular version differs significantly from its computer and console counterparts. It adopts a top-down action game…
X-Men: The Official Game is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Amaze Entertainment, released 16 May 2006 on Nintendo DS.
What X-Men: The Official Game is
X-Men: The Official Game is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Amaze Entertainment and released in 2006. It was published by Activision. It is available on Nintendo DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
X-Men: The Official Game is positioned between the second and third X-Men movies. This particular version differs significantly from its computer and console counterparts. It adopts a top-down action game format featuring 3D characters across forty levels. During gameplay, the player can seamlessly switch between Wolverine, Iceman, and Magneto in certain levels, while others focus on controlling Nightcrawler exclusively. Character movement is facilitated through the Control Pad, while all other character actions are executed via the touch screen. The lower screen serves as the gameplay area, displaying the characters, while the upper screen provides information on their status. Nightcrawler…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Marvel series
X-Men: The Official Game is the 137th of 404 entries we hold in the Marvel series. The next entry was X-Men: The Official Game in 2006. Its critic score of 49 is 15 points below the series average of 64. The highest-rated entry is Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes at 90.
How it was received
X-Men: The Official Game holds a critic score of 49 out of 100. That places it above 9% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 16 points below the year average.
What it launched against
X-Men: The Official Game launched on 16 May 2006, within three weeks of Half-Life 2: Episode One, New Super Mario Bros., Hitman: Blood Money and Heroes of Might and Magic V. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Half-Life 2: Episode One, New Super Mario Bros., Hitman: Blood Money, Heroes of Might and Magic V.
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