X-Men: The Official Game
X-Men: The Official Game (also known as X3: The Official Game) is Activision's tie-in video game to the 2006 film X-Men: The Last Stand. The game covers the events of the films X2: X-Men United and X-Men: The…
X-Men: The Official Game is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Hypnos Entertainment, released 16 May 2006 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
What X-Men: The Official Game is
X-Men: The Official Game is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Hypnos Entertainment and released in 2006. It was published by Activision. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
The premise, in the publisher's words
X-Men: The Official Game (also known as X3: The Official Game) is Activision's tie-in video game to the 2006 film X-Men: The Last Stand. The game covers the events of the films X2: X-Men United and X-Men: The Last Stand, specifically following the characters of Wolverine, Iceman, and Nightcrawler. It also bridges the gap between the two films, explaining why Nightcrawler is not present for The Last Stand and also introduces new foes to the X-Men film canon, such as HYDRA, who FOX didn't own the film rights. The game was released on the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, developed by Z-Axis; Nintendo GameCube, ported by Hypnos; Microsoft Windows, ported by Beenox; Game Boy Advance, developed by…
How it plays
It is played from a third person 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 135th of 404 entries we hold in the Marvel series. The next entry was X-Men: The Official Game in 2006. Its critic score of 58 is 6 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 58 out of 100. That places it above 17% 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 7 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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