While not the worst X-Men game, it certainly isn't the best. Overall X-Men 3: The Official Game offers mild thrills.
User Rating: 6 | X-Men: The Official Game PC
With X-Men 3: The Last Stand coming out in May, it is only natural that Activision create a tie-in to the movie, and thus X-Men 3: The Official Game came to be. The game serves as a bridge between X2: X-Men United and X3: The Last Stand but more importantly, it addresses why Nightcrawler is missing in the third film. The story is supposedly written by Chris Claremont but Zak Penn must've came and butchered it cause I know Claremont can come up with a way better story. Anyway, it deals with the repercussions of Stryker's experiments on mutants, particularly with his son Jason who has developed into 2 distinct personalities, one good and one evil. The evil one decides to carry on his father's vision of wiping out all the mutants, unleashing the Sentinels. Yea, I know, it just lost me with the whole split personality thing that I was half-expecting the Hulk to pop up somewhere. Visually, everything looks nice and all the character models seem detailed. The environments could've been more varied and some are plain boring. The sound acting is good, with the actors reprising their respective roles but the gameplay leaves something to be desired. Mainly you're just button-mashing your way through the sequences. And the cutscenes should've been full blown 3D cinematics. However, we're just treated to awkward still frames of the characters. Boss fights are okay but mainly the same enemies are thrown at you over and over again. The upgrade system with the mutations is an okay idea but overall this is a game for young kids and really hardcore X-Men fans. Also, for some reason you can only play as Wolverine, Nightcrawler, and Iceman. My guess is that those are the only characters who was guaranteed to be voiced by the movie stars so thats why you only play as those three. Anyway casual gamers should really ignore this game. Unless you have a kid below age 10, you wouldn't want to play this game. If you do want to see why its bad, I suggest you rent one of the console versions. While not a total disaster, Activision could have done better, since their recent X-Men game, X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse was a classic action RPG comic book game. I suppose I shouldn't blame them though, most movie tie-in games haven't really been great due to rushed development schedules.
*Revised review to reflect my current review standards.*
