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Appearances

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N-Gage Storyline[]

Featured Characters:

  • X-Men (First appearance)
    • Wolverine (James Howlett) (First appearance)
    • Cyclops (Scott Summers) (First appearance)
    • Iceman (Bobby Drake) (First appearance)
    • Rogue (Anna Marie) (First appearance)
    • Phoenix (Jean Grey) (First appearance)
      • Phoenix Force (First appearance)
    • Storm (Ororo Munroe) (First appearance)
    • Beast (Hank McCoy) (First appearance)
    • Magma (Alison Crestmere) (First appearance)
    • Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) (First appearance) (Secret Character)
    • Gambit (Remy LeBeau) (First appearance) (Secret Character)
    • Colossus (Piotr Rasputin) (First appearance) (Secret Character)

Supporting Characters:

  • Professor X (Charles Xavier) (First appearance)
  • Moira MacTaggert (First appearance)
  • Havok (Alex Summers) (First appearance)

Antagonists:

  • Brotherhood of Mutants (First appearance)
    • Mystique (Raven Darkhölme) (First appearance)
    • Blob (Fred Dukes) (First appearance)
    • Pyro (St. John Allerdyce) (First appearance)
    • Avalanche (Dominikos Petrakis) (First appearance)
    • Sabretooth (Victor Creed) (First appearance)
    • Toad (Mortimer Toynbee) (First appearance)
    • Magneto (Max Eisenhardt) (First appearance)
  • Morlocks (First appearance)
    • Gene Nation (First appearance)
      • Marrow (Sarah Rushman) (First appearance)
  • Juggernaut (Cain Marko) (First appearance)
  • General William Kincaid (First appearance)
    • Sentinels
      • Master Mold (First appearance) (Destruction)
  • Acolytes (First appearance)
  • Weapon X (First appearance)
  • Mad clones of Multiple Man
  • Mutant Police

Other Characters:

  • Healer (First appearance)
  • Forge (First appearance)
  • Multiple Man (James Madrox) (First appearance)
  • Illyana Rasputina (First appearance)
  • Gateway (First appearance)
  • Stan Lee (Mentioned)
  • Kevin MacTaggert (Mentioned)
  • Department H (Mentioned)
  • CIA (Mentioned)

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Synopsis

Alison Crestmere (Magma), a mutant on the verge of discovering her powers, is abducted. Wolverine witnesses the abduction and chases Mystique and Blob, teaming up with Cyclops to rescue Alison. After safely escaping in the X-Jet, Alison is brought to the Xavier Institute where she can talk with the X-Men and students, and explore her powers. The X-Men continue to explore leads that might indicate why Mystique and the Brotherhood of Mutants are interested in Alison. At the same time, they attempt to combat both the Brotherhood, who spring their leader, Magneto, from his prison, and the growing number of Sentinels. The drama culminates in a number of showdowns on Asteroid M with both Magneto and the Master Mold.

Cast

Actor — Part
  • Michelle Arthur — Moira MacTaggart, Additional Voices
  • Edward Asner — Morlock Healer
  • Dee Bradley Baker — Nightcrawler, Multiple Man, Additional voices
  • Leigh Allyn Baker — Jean Grey
  • Steven Jay Blum — Wolverine (credited as Steven Blum)
  • Earl Boen — Colossus, Doctor
  • Rodger Bumpass — Sentinel Scientist
  • Cheryl Carter — Storm
  • Kathryn Cressida — Debra Owens, Additional Voices
  • Grey DeLisle — Mystique, Child Bishop (voice)
  • John DiMaggio — Juggernaut, General Kincaid
  • Robin Atkin Downes — Cyclops, Pyro
  • Richard Doyle — Beast, Additional voices
  • Jeannie Elias — Illyana
  • Dorian Harewood — Shadow King
  • Dan Hay — Apocalypse, Additional Voices
  • Bobby Holliday — Emma Frost
  • Tony Jay — Magneto
  • Tom Kane — Chuck Simms, Additional Voices
  • Mark Klastorin — Blob, Additional Voices
  • Nancy Linari — Marrow
  • Peter Lurie — Avalanche, Sabretooth
  • Scott MacDonald — Gambit, Additional Voices
  • Masasa Moyo — Psylocke, Additional Voices
  • Erin Matthews — Rogue
  • Danica McKellar — Jubilee
  • Matt Nolan — Havok, Additional Voices
  • Lou Diamond Phillips — Forge
  • Darren Scott — Iceman, Additional Voices
  • Armin Shimerman — Toad, Additional Voices
  • André Sogliuzzo — Angel (unused lines), Additional Voices
  • Patrick Stewart — Professor Charles Xavier
  • Cree Summer — Magma
  • Zachary Quarles — Danger Room Onboard Computer
Additional Voices

Eric Biessman, Blaine Christine, Greg Ellis, Nika Futterman (credited as Nika Frost), Jay Gordon, Michael Gough, Matt Prescott Morton, Zachary Quarles, Rick Worthy, and Kris Zimmerman

Notes

X-Men Legends is a role-playing game released on several consoles in 2004. Players can play as one of 15 X-Men characters, switching between four Computer (or Human) controlled characters within one team. The basic plot revolves around the X-Men battling Magneto and the Brotherhood of Mutants.

Continuity[]

The X-Men Legends series used the Ultimate costumes (and regular ones as well), but the storyline for the games are original for the most part. The backstories of the characters are based on the traditional Marvel continuity, known as Earth-616, but with several notable differences (Magma never joined the New Mutants, nor did she come from Nova Roma; Illyana Rasputin is still alive; Juggernaut and Mystique remain villains; etc).

Aside from the costumes, there are no major Ultimate references.

Release Information[]

X-Men Legends is available for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, and GameCube video game consoles and the N-Gage handheld game console. This action role-playing game allows up to four people to play (depending on the system) as one of 15 different X-Men, including characters such as Wolverine, Cyclops, and Storm, unlocked through gameplay. Each character has unique powers that can be used against opponents, as defense, or in combination with teammates' abilities. The game was developed by Raven Software with an overhead perspective. The N-Gage version was developed by Barking Lizards, and features an isometric viewpoint.

Sequel[]

A sequel, X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse was released for the Playstation 2, Xbox, GameCube, and PC on September 27, 2005; a PSP version of the sequel was released on October 11, 2005, and an N-Gage version was released in late 2005.

Gameplay[]

The game has multiplayer co-operative and skirmish options for up to four players. Co-operative play is similar to Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2, but is more refined with the addition of combination attacks and character interactions.

This format of a mission and then character development is followed throughout the game. While at the mansion, one person controls Alison as she explores and learns about herself and the other X-Men.

Trivia

  • The game was quite well received, earning average scores of 83%, 82.5% and 80.4% for the Xbox, GameCube and Playstation 2 versions, respectively. The game's cell-shaded graphics were generally reviewed well, but critics commonly complained about the too-easy difficulty level, widespread use of loading screens and lackluster multiplayer experience. Also there was a tendency for glitches to occur while jumping, stranding characters in midair for a time, or sliding left and right across ledges.
  • The game started development in the middle of 2000.
  • The game is influenced not only by the main Earth-616 comics, but also by Ultimate X-Men and the X-Men movies in terms of character and location designs.
  • The protagonist was originally a customizable character but the developers dedicated to use Magma instead due to budget constraints.
  • Angel was meant to be a playable character, but was scrapped at some point of development. He could still be played in an early prototype of the game that was released in 2021.
  • Professor X is playable only during the first adventure in the Astral Plane. The slot for 15th character in the game roster is reserved for Prof and stays locked for the remaining part of the game.
  • N-Gage version of the game has an easter egg reference to Spider-Man. There are bookshelves in X-Mansion, which show different books in random order. One of the books that could appear was "Cicadaman" with the following contents: "After having been bitten by a radioactive cicada, Skeeter Skarker becomes the superhero known as Cicadaman".
  • Although the trivia game has one question about the first X-Men comic, all the remaning questions refer to the facts, told by characters within the game through dialogues with several esxceptions that don't contradict the details of Earth-7964. When Jean Grey was showing the X-Mansion to Alison, she told her that their library has even comics and considering the fact that the X-Men can find and read X-Men comics during the gameplay, it must be assumed that similarly to Earth-616 the reality of the game has comics about X-Men either. This question doesn't invalidate the canonicity of the trivia, unlike the trivia from the sequel, where half of the questions were about comics, several questions contradicted the story of the game and the questions about X-Men Legends games were explicitly indicated.

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