Spiderman and the X-Men: Arcades Revenge

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Spiderman and the X-Men: Arcades Revenge - by Lord Nazerous

Introduction:

Say you like Marvel comics? And you like there other video games too? And you want to buy it? Well..I have good news for you then...Since you're reading this, I'll let you in on a little secret. Ok? THIS GAME IS PURE GARBAGE! DON'T BUY IT UNLESS YOUR RICH AND OWN EVERY OTHER SNES GAME ON THE PLANET! Well, I wouldn't say it's the worst game on the planet, but it's pretty bad. Spider-Man joins forces with some of the X-Men, against the evil Arcade. Actually the game designers didn't like Marvel comics, so they trapped their most famous characters in a little, tiny, impossible game... ;-)

Graphics [4/10]:

Below average. Nothing in this game is very detailed, or the least bit impressive. The best graphical part of this game is in the "Cyclops" level. Cyclops needs to "re-energize" his mutant power with these rubies, which aren't that bad to look at. Funny though...I never remembered Cyclops having to recharge his mutant powers...oh well...what do I know. The special effects, well, aren't so special. The backrounds are either hopless or non-existant. The charcters, are drawn very sketchy (Hee-he). And they're movement is reminiscent of the old 8-bit days.

Music and Sound [3/10]:

AHHHHHHHHH! Terrible, so awful...Can't get music out of my HEAD! It keeps repeating every twenty seconds. It's SO annoying. There's only five different tracks in the ENTIRE game..they keep playing, and playing..and playing........The only good with the music is the opening music.
Ok, sound wasn't quite as bad, that's why the catagory got such a..um.. 'good' rating. The sound of Wolverines claws, jutting in and out, Cyclopses laser beams, and "Spidy's" web shooters, aren't that bad. They're not done well, but there was more effort put into this than the music.

Game Play [2/10]:

I'll admit. This is a fun game, for the first hour or so. Then it becomes frustrating and annoying. You have to collect "Power-Ups" just to use your powers. With the exception of SpiderMan, all the characters in the comics have unlimited power. It's like saying, "You've got to collect things so you can blink your eyes!" The enemies are so hard...the bosses are even harder. This could be the game that made Nintendo create the N64...just to bury this game. There is one good thing about the gameplay. The control is good, which really annoys me, because some of the really good games out there have bad control....

Challenge and Replay [2/10]:

There is challenge in this game, if that's all your looking for. But too much, of anything isn't good. The game is so difficult, I've never beaten it. EVEN WITH GAME GENIE! It's impossibly hard. All I can say about the Replay Value is, "How can you REPLAY it when it's immpossible to beat?!?!?"
Let me explain the rating of this catagory. There is no replay value (0/10) As for the difficulty, I think difficulty should be something that helps highten the entire game experience, not hinder it. When a developer creates a game that is so hard and frustrating, they obviolsy don't care about the consumer, or are wizards and can beat anything they come into contact with.

Conclusion/Overall [2.7/10]:

This is a terrible game. I bought it a while ago, and was very dissapointed with it. I've tryed to beat it recently, but it's still next to immpossible. The only thing this has going for it is the Ruby graphics in the cyclops level. This game had all the right ideas, but they were thrown into a ses-pool of garbage, and destroyed...for what reason? Noone knows. This is a bearly rentable, let alone buyable. Unfortunatly, though they still sell this game in many stores...watch it! It may look cool, but no matter how much you paid for it, you'll wish you had your money back.

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