X-men: The Official Game is everything you'd expect from a game based on a movie: disapointing & forgettable. spoilers
The story takes place between the second and, upcoming, third X-men movie. Everyone is still feeling the effects of losing Jean Grey at Alkali Lake and this explains why Cyclops isn't in the game. It seems that to be able to find Magneto, Professor X will need parts from the dark Cerebro made in the second movie. Wolverine, Ice man, and Nightcrawler are sent with other members of the X-men to retrieve the pieces and save the day. Unfortunately for them, they soon discover there are soldiers looting the former weapon-X facility and they also make a huge discovery: sentinels.
You take control of three of the new team of X-men: Wolverine, Nightcrawler, and Ice man. One of the saving graces of the game is the fact that there is variety between the characters. Wolverine is tank and fights through hordes of enemies, Nightcrawler has acrobatic moves and his teleporting, so he has a small stealth component to his gameplay, while Ice man's levels are setup more like Panzer Dragoon. Unfortunately, there should have been more variety. It got very boring as each character only has a limited number of combos (somewhere between four and six combo moves) and they can't learn new ones. I would have really liked to have been able to play as Ice man without always being on my ice sled and racing through levels. The same go for Nightcralwer or Wolverine in the respects that I really had a feeling of "been there, done that" on every level. It was however fun to tear through people as Wolverine, But this game has nothing on the X-men Legends games.
Even though you cannot upgrade your characters combos, or learn new ones, you can however upgrade their health, health regnereation, strength, and character specific traits. While they are minor improvements, certain upgrades do help later in the game. You can also collect sentinel tech pieces and danger room disks to unlock secrets like different costumes, danger room missions, etc.
Graphically, this game really doesn't feel like an XBox 360 title. Why on earth would you want to pay $10 extra dollars for this game? There is nothing extra on it that doesn't come with the XBox, Ps2, or Gamecube versions. I am shaving points off for this, as they did the same thing with GUN (and the 360 version of GUN was actually worse!!). There are no real cutscenes, but some sort of stylized 2D comic panels. I think they thought it would help with the comic feel of the game...but it doesn't. Some of the artwork is just lazy and plain terrible, but sometimes they do a pretty good job with Wolverine. Voice acting is good, from the people who actually play the characters on screen, but everyone else sounds just plain bad. Also, Colussus acts like a girl in this game, so don't be suprised if he dies in one of the missions from Hydra baddies with stun guns.....lame.
You really see the exact same villians in this game all the way through: Sentinels and Hydra. This acts to the boring factor a lot.
In the end, what you have is your typical movie video game foul up. A game that seems rushed, over priced, and a huge sense of "been there, why the heck am I doing this again" feeling. Rent this, but if you are going to buy this, at least get the XBox version of the game, and avoid the "been there, done that, why the heck am I doing this again" feeling.