Ah fudge. Well looks as if I have no choice. I have to review this game. This game sucks ,it straight up sucks. This game for those of you unaware was made by LJN made infamous by a certain Angry Video Game Nerd for producing low quality movie tie in games for the NES and other consoles around at that time. Now I don't think LJN completely deserves their awful reputation. Of coarse they do make a lot of crap like this but a lot of their games are just plain and mediocre not really bad. At
least that's how I see it.
Without a doubt though this is their worst game. It is absolutely horrendous.
Say what you want about Back to The Future, Jaws, or Beetlejuice this is LJN's Worst game.
Let's dive in to the uncanny x-men shall we.
Story
I don't know. I don't care.
All I can say is that you have the choice to play as 6 x-men
Cyclops, iceman, wolverine, storm, colossus and night crawler.
You gotta stop magneto and save the world. I'm sure there's more info in the manual but really I don't care enough to read it.
But whatever what's get into what actually makes this game a piece of crap.
Gameplay
The gameplay for Uncanny X-Men uses a top-down perspective.
You go through the level trying to get to the end and while your at it kick some bad guy butt.
Sounds simple enough. How did they screw it up you ask.
Well let me tell you.
First the level design is awful. It's not fun or interesting or charming or anything. It's bland and poorly designed.
Second the AI. In this game when you have the option to play with somebody else(that is if you can
actually find somebody to play this crap with you)
Whenever you don't have a second player around the game gives you an computer player to help you
out. This would be fine and dandy if the AI wasn't so bad. This computer character does nothing to
help. In fact in the first few seconds he'll either die or get stuck. He doesn't even try to attack
enemies. He/she is absolutely pointless.
Third is the character. The characters in this game are all the same.
Well I shouldn't say they are all the same. There are two types of characters.
Type A:Physical Attackers
Examples:Wolverine, colossus, and night crawler
Type B:Long Range Attackers
Examples:Cyclopes, Storm, and Iceman.
All the type A characters are exactly the same and all the type B characters are exactly the same. Ok, there's a few exceptions for example night crawler can walk through solid objects but that's not enough. There needs to be more to not make make every character look like a clone.
They even give you different stats for each character on the character selection screen.
Those stats are complete lies just to make it look like the characters are different.
So there you have it. Bad A.I, Bad level design, bad design in general. It suck
Gameplay Score-4/10
Sound
Honestly nothing in this game in terms of sound is memorable.
Nothing good nor nothing bad.
Sound Score-5/10
Graphics
The graphics are bad.
The colors are so bland and everything just looks awful(Even by NES standards)
Not a whole lot to say here.
Graphics Score-4/10
Enjoyment
I really don't enjoy this game a whole lot.
Not the worst game but not really that good either.
It's bad but with a few fixes it could land on the meh side of things.
Enjoyment Score-8.5/20
Overall-21.5/50
43%. F
So yeah that's uncanny x-men on NES.
Bad game but with a few fixes could be raised to a D or even a C.
But to bad you can't fix products that were released all the way back in the 80s.
I honestly didn't expect to get this review done so early so I guess this Friday I'll have another review up.
That one will be part of the same franchise as a previous game I already played but is not any where as good.
See you then.
