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Info Courtesy Of IGN and Game Informer:

February 20, 2003 - In the most recent issue of Game Informer (March 2003), Activision has lifted the lid on its most ambitious X-Men title to date, X-Men Legends, a game we first heard about nearly two years ago.

X-Men Legends is a console-based RPG scheduled to arrive in late 2003 for PS2, GameCube and Xbox, and incorporates 19 of the most popular Marvel mutants from various time periods, dating back nearly 40 years ago. While the game tells the coming-of-age story of little-known character Magma (a.k.a., Alison Crestmere, who first appeared in New Mutants), players can pick four characters to engage in simultaneous combat, including Iceman, Gambit, Forge, Beast, Jean Grey, Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Colossus, Psylocke, Nightcrawler, Angel and seven more.

In development with Raven Software, the critically acclaimed development team behind PC favorites Soldier of Fortune, Hexen and Heretic, X-Men Legends is the developer's first console game -- and its first RPG.

According to Raven's top honchos Brian Pelletier and Patrick Lipo, the one- to two-player game, which is still in development, focuses on team-based action and strategy. The uncanny X-Men's wild range of characters, any of whom can be switched to on the fly, helps to create an RPG that casually resembles Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance but that enables players to use a team-style combo system to unleash extra powerful abilities. Activision has corralled experienced Marvel writers to pen the story, including Writer Joey Casey (Uncanny Xmen), Steven Seagle, Joe Kelly, and Duncan Rouleau.

Like traditional RPGs, players earn experience points after each level -- while the most active and successful character earns an extra bonus. Players engage in combat in a variety of totally destructible environments, such as various areas of the Mansion, as well as Department H, Muir Island, and the Danger Room, and collect items to build up the team's power.

When called on the phone yesterday, Activision was unable to provide any official details about this upcoming title for online sites. So instead, we suggest you buy a copy of March issue of Game Informer for an in-depth look. The issue shows everyone's favorite adamantium-laced superhero (Wolverine) on the cover and highlights a huge feature on both X-Men Legends and X2: Wolverine's Revenge.

We'll have more on X-Men Legends in the near future. Our thanks go to our friends in Minnesota for the first details on the game.

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Barret Wallace

That seems like a cool idea, but I'm a little skeptical since not all X-Men games have been great like Next Dimension. However, I'll still keep an eye on this title.

Thanks for the news. I was too lazy to find it myself.

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Rosencrantz

X-Men seems made for RPG games. People should have done this a long time ago. They have a massive cast of characters to pick from as well as some great back stories, battles and villains. I only ask they keep magento out of it. I'm getting sick of him. Let's see Apocalypse and his 4 horsemen, or Mr. Sinister. Hell, even Stryfe would make a great RPG villain. Just PLEASE! I BEG OF YOU! NO MAGNETO!

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Tosser00

Whoa I forgot about some of those characters. Gambit and Beast... I wonder why they weren't in the movie... Gambit was pretty cool.

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kupo00

cause they couldnt find a good actor to play as gambit. well thats what i heard. i also heard that he definetly IS going to be in the 3rd movie.

Sweet Tooth

To get off the topic of the game, to comment on the movies, according to Entertainment Weekly Gambit is in X-Men 2 if I read correctly. I believe nightcrawler is as well. The reason Beast hasn't been added is because they said it would be a massive makeup job to get it too look really good. So I wouldn't expect to see him.

Back to the game. Yes, you will see Magneto. I'm 99.9% sure of it. He's the main villain in EVERYTHING X-Men related. I just hope they add more guys like Apocalypse. And you know what would be really cool, if you could play the Phoenix Saga...

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Gambit isn't in the X2, Iceman is the only new addition to the characters. They didn't add gambit, because they didn't want to try and tell his story in the movie. Thats the reason iceman was a part of the first one. Gambit may make a small appearence like icemans in X1. But he is definately not in the movie.

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Sweet Tooth

EW lied to me! Oh well, it wasn't my magazine it was my uncle's so I at least I didn't pay for wrong info. Maybe I did read it wrong. Maybe they said he has a small appearance that will lead to a bigger role in X3. Who knows.

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ew2x4

Night Crawler is in it for sure. They have pics of him online with the makeup on.

PlaystationFan

yeah, i'm pretty sure nightcrawler is in as well. My bad.

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