"X-Men Legends 2" kicks total ass

I took a couple days off from managing my virtual college football season as the Michigan Wolverines. I rented Activision's "X-Men Legends 2: Rise of the Apocalypse" for PS2, which is amazing. It took awhile to start up with all the promos for all the shops involved in producing it - Activision, Raven Software, Vicarious Visions, Beenox Studios, but it's really well done. Even for a hardcore X-Men fan like me.

You can play as a whole host of of classic and newer characters - 16 in total from the X-Men and Brotherhood - like Angel/Archangel, Colossus, Deadpool, Scarlett Witch, Sunfire and Iceman, In addition to the ones you'd expect like Wolverine, Mystique, Nightcrawler and Cyclops.

I enjoyed the vocal talents of Patrick Stewart's "other" famous role as Professor X. And I swear, that's gotta be John Lithgow playing Magneto. And I'd bet serious moolah that one dude who's in all the Adam Sandler movies is the voices for Juggernaut, Gambit, Grizzly and several other characters. I think the guy who voices Beast in the cartoon is also in the game in that role. It's very accurate, unlike the movies (my biggest boner-killer was Colossus not being Russian), and has a really challenging trivia mini-game.

I logged 2.5 hours last night, and I'm only a little into the story. I'm such a video game pansy these days, being years out of practice, that I'm playing 'easy' mode.

Good job on this one! (And "Ultimate Spider-Man" looks really good, too.)