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Aug 24, 2006

Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra

PS2 Review

A little over three years ago, a game that seemed like it might just have what it took to stand up to Final Fantasy appeared. Xenosaga Episode I had amazing graphics, an engrossing and epic story in a far-flung future, and the challenging gameplay to back it up. It had more ambition and polish than any other contender. Things... didn't work out. Xenosaga Episode II followed two years later, scaled way back, its story mostly told in flashbacks and its gameplay oversimplified. Predictably, many ...
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May 31, 2007

Xevious - Xbox Live Arcade

360 Review

At 25, Xevious is probably older than a number of the people reading this review. For those of you who dont know, this 1982 Namco coin-muncher was one of the first vertical scrolling arcade shooters, helping establish the standard for everything that came in its wake. And while the shooter genre has largely come and gone in the annals of gamedom, Xevious remains a very big part of interactive entertainment history. But the problem with porting and releasing downright ancient games like this on ...
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Jan 3, 2007

Xiaolin Showdown

PS2 Review

Start with a second-rate cartoon license. Add a dash of a bargain-bin party game, then stuff it inside half-baked 3D roaming combat and stir well. Finally, let the mix rot in the sun for a week. What do you get? Youd be half right if you said “something really icky,” but youd be totally on the mark if you said Xiaolin Showdown on the PS2. Xiaolin Showdown is a four-player, free-roaming competitive fighting game (though youd be hard-pressed to tell by reading the blurb on the games ...
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Dec 14, 2006

Xiaolin Showdown

Xbox Review

Start with a second-rate cartoon license. Add a dash of a bargain-bin party game, then stuff it inside half-baked 3D roaming combat and stir well. Finally, let the mix rot in the sun for a week. What do you get? Youd be half right if you said “something really icky,” but youd be totally on the mark if you said Xiaolin Showdown on the Xbox. Xiaolin Showdown is a four-player, free-roaming competitive fighting game (though youd be hard-pressed to tell by reading the blurb on the games ...
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May 27, 2008

XIII Century: Death or Glory

PC Review

PC - XIII Century: Death or Glory - XIII Century: Death or Glory

Jim Ansell, the father of Total War, falls out with Creative Assembly’s new owners Sega and leaves to form an indie outfit. His studio’s first release is a thrilling thirteenth century wargame that runs Cantabrian rings round Medieval II. Reviewers love it. Punters love it. Even people that don’t like it love it. A fierce and fruitful rivalry is born. Ah, if only. In truth this doppelganger was made by a gang of Russians, ...

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Nov 5, 2004

X-Men Legends

Xbox Review

Now this is more like it. Don't get us wrong, it's not like X-Men: Next Dimension was a bad game as such, it's just... No, hang on, that's exactly what it was. Anyway, the point we're trying to make is that if you're going to create a quality X-Men experience you don't want to be messing around with undiluted beat-'em-up gameplay. Nor do you want to split the mutants up and send them off on their own solitary quest (as was the case in the yawnsome Wolverine's Revenge). And as for Rogue And ...
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Jun 22, 2007

X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse

PS2 Review

The sequel to one of the best comic-book games ever made, X-Men Legends II offers more of what made the original so much fun while streamlining some features to make it more approachable. The game is a dungeon crawler similar to Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance and Champions of Norrath. This time around, the X-Men team up with their enemies to stop the menace of Apocalypse. In videogame terms this means running through a number of levels, beating the crap out of lots of little things, beating up ...
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Jun 22, 2007

X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse

PC Review

Jun 22, 2007

X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse

GC Review

Jun 22, 2007

X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse

PSP Review

One of a handful of action-RPGs for the PSP, X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse is very similar to traditional dungeon crawlers. Instead of warriors and swords or wizards and fireballs, you have solar-powered mutants and optic blasts or telekinetics. The other gaming elements are largely the same; you run around, beat things up, collect items, talk to people, and beat up really large things at the end of each chapter. For the most part, X-Men Legends 2 offers a superior action-RPG experience ...
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