X-Men: Next Dimension

X-Men: Next Dimension is a somewhat enjoyable game. Any X-Men fan will be happy to play as over 24 different characters ripped straight from the comics, with powers intact.All characters have multiple outfits and are highly detailed. The graphics overall in the game aren't outstanding, but they're decent enough. The special effects on the powers are the icing on the cake, standing out above everythign else in the game. The environment is interactive and players can be thrown through floors, cielings, windows and walls to new areas of the level.That's about it for the great features though. Probably the most troubling aspect about this game is the fact that it has virtually NO SOUND EFFECTS whatsoever while you fight. You spend most of the time watching you characters throw punches and kicks at one another with only the music going, and occasionally you might hear a punch connect or a character groan in pain. Otherwise there is complete silence while you fight. I'm not sure how that slipped past the Quality Assurance testers unless they were all deaf. I thought it was just the XBox, since just about every XBox game seems to be plagued with sound problems, but it wasn't. The game just lacks sound effects.Another troubling aspect is the difficulty...now i'm not one for easy games, in fact I hate games that are so easy you can blow through them in a 30 minutes sitting...but Next Dimension transcends the boundaries of high difficulty. I haven't played a fighting game this hard in a long, long time. And while a challenge is certainly welcome, there is a definite difference between challenge and insanity. The difficulty in this game, unfortunately, falls into the insanity category. While you probably won't have to cheat your way to victory, the only way to assure that you win is to spend HOURS in the practice mode with every character. Since you are forced to play as different characters as the game progresses in Story Mode, you must know how to use each character. And even then...the game can become so frustrating at times that its best that you turn it off and put it on the shelf for a few days. It can be fun at times, but most of the time succeeds at being terribly difficult.The control is pretty bad...and the clunky junk that is the XBox controller does not help matters. Special moves are straightforward but difficult to perform because of the responsiveness of the controls. If you have a special kind of gamepad from a third party developer, use that instead. They typically have better D-pads.Overall, the game just seems rushed, or incomplete. The lack of sound effects, the crazy difficulty and the lack of options and bad control just harm the game's fun factor. There is plenty to unlock, and there is a decent story tagged along on the game, but in the end this game is mediocre in every sense of the word. It will only appeal to die-hard X-Men fans, such as myself. If you are interested in the game, give it a rent. You might like it...its not a horrible game, it just could've been alot better.

Amazing quality. Everything is great condition. NIT COMPATABLE WITH XBOX 360 ( some 360 models do)

X-Men: Next Dimension is most likely the first game I have played that was based on the X-Men comic that did not disappoint me. Being old enough to remember most of the incarnations that the X-men have had on various consoles and the PC (X-Men: Ravages of Apocalypse for example or X-Men for the original Nintendo system), I had fairly low expectations. Moreover, I've never really been drawn to playing fighting games because of the low replay value.X-Men: Next Dimension (X:ND) was a pleasant surprise however. A solid 3D fighting game with equally solid graphics, it is a frequently played addition to my collection of Xbox titles. Let me say up front that this is no Dead or Alive 3 in respects to graphics. It does, however, have strong graphics with excellent effects for the powers.The powers... here is what makes this one stand out from the pack of fighting games available. True to the comic each hero or villain has an array of moves and abilities available to them in stages, not entirely unlike Tao Feng's chi system. Your available power builds as you fight, enabling progressively more powerful abilities. It should be noted that while activating these powers involves a combo move unique to that character, these moves typically involve intuitive key combinations and not the long strings of button mashing found in many fighting games.The story mode in X:ND is written by experienced X-Men comic writers. It is superior to the "stories" that string together many fighting games (a minor issue I have with DOA3), and is compelling enough to make you play it through to its conclusion. I did so in about 5 hours and thought only about an hour had passed. There are the standard versus, survival and practice modes as well as other features and add ins.On the down side, I do wish that the game was more reasonable about unlocking the special characters. While some aren't terribly difficult to unlock (Bastion, Bishop and Psylocke come to mind), there are others that are nearly impossible without cheating. Additionally, I'm a bit spoiled by DOA3 - I'd have loved to see the X-Men rendered with that level of excellence. Perhaps, if there should be a sequel, we'll get those refinements.All said and done, this one does not provide the disappointment you might have seen referred to by other avid gamers in this forum. Give it a rental if you are hesitant, and I think you'll see that this one is worth the very reasonable Amazon.com price.

This is barely passable to be rated as a game.Theres good reasons why games and comic books should not mix and this is one of them.In the game for some characters the player can't do some of the moves as good as the CPU, and the moves do not respond to the D-pad on time.And there are several glitches in the game as well for instance; As I was in practice mode in some arenas the player or opponent can fall threw walls or in some areas where there are big holes in the floor where you can actually walk on them and not fall, or get trapped in a wall. And as if that was not bad enough they did a pore job on the blocking move, it too dose not respond on time. They have where you can reconfigure your controls on the game (Yeah, a lot of good that dose.) But you still don't have the blocking move to where you don't have to strain the hell out of your fingers just to do one stupid move.And as for the affects, its a joke and I'll give you an example; In the game Blood Roar Extreme, the lighting in the game looks far more real as to X-men Storm's lighting balls, they look more like balls of yarn. And there fighting stances are just flat out bad. Some players can float just over there heads witch doesn't make sense because not only that, you can't really hit them anymore and it gives your enemy an open shot at you.To sum it all up, X-men next dimension was just another sloped together, slapped a label on, copied, and ready to make a buck off of it. They don't care about making a good quality product. Just as long as they get your money. And did I mention that you can't save your progress in the game?

Awesome! I feel Like a kid again!

Had an issue with a game I purchased, seller took care of it right away. Great customer service.