This is a classic case of another movie game that feels rushed and is a mediocre rental, at best.

User Rating: 5 | X-Men: The Official Game X360
I won't take too much of your time here. Since most of you who would be reading this review know, most movie games suck hard. In fact, many of them are downright terrible and the companies releasing these turds should be sued for fraud. These types of games are made for one sole reason.....to make money. While that would seem like an obvious statement for any videogame, these kinds of games have no creativity, storytelling, graphic prowess, and the gameplay is usually some mix of repetitive beat 'em up and crappy game design.

Where does X-Men fall into all of this? Well, playing as Nightcrawler is somewhat entertaining for awhile. Wolverine is pure button mashing. And playing as Iceman, with his lame on-rails levels, had me yelling at my TV in frustration many times. The graphics look like a PS2 game. The cut scenes are an absolute embarrassment and might be the worst I have seen since the 32-bit era.

They did get the three actors that play these characters in the movies to reprise their roles here. They all do a decent job, but they didn't get any of the other actors except for Patrick Stewart. This wasn't exactly surprising, but Storm & Colossus sound terrible. And if you were curious where Nightcrawler went and why he wasn't in the third movie, well this game will give you that answer if you decide to play it all the way through.

This game should be retitled, "Mediocre X-Men Game" and written on the front of the box. Everything about it feels rushed to come out in time with the movie, including some bugs and glitches. Under no circumstances should you purchase this game, as this is a weekend rental. And even that might be a stretch. If you have been avoiding these games for a long time (like I have), then this is a nice game to pop in your Xbox 360 & remind yourself why you should continue to avoid crappy movie games like this. In fact, that would be the best reason I could give to play this game: to jog your memory of how bad games like this are so you are never tempted to spend money on any of the others like it.