

The game puts you in control of Iceman, Wolverine, and Nightcrawler, and you set out across a series of missions to advance the storyline. X-Men: The Video Game offered gamers a chance to experience events that occur between X-Men 2 and X-Men 3 and also offered the explanation for Nightcrawler's absence from X-Men 3 (not Fox refusing to pick up Alan Cumming's option, and not the complaints he voiced about the makeup process being too brutal). The summer of 2006 brought us the third installment of the vastly popular X-Men series, which naturally came hand-in-hand with a movie tie-in video game. While some of these games have been shockingly good (such as The Chronicles of Riddick), far more movie-based games have been abysmal. When a high-budget, guaranteed blockbuster movie comes out, it's almost an automatic assumption that the movie will have some sort of tie-in game.

Enhance your character by earning mutations to spend on one of five attributes including health, strength, and regeneration. If you'd rather play it cool, engage in a little combat snowboarding with Iceman by freezing just about anyone and anything while shredding around on an ice slide. As Wolverine, you can slice through enemies with adamantium claws while quickly regenerating your wounds, or you can try teleporting as Nightcrawler. Play through 31 levels as one of three main characters. Join forces with other mutant superheroes, including Storm, Colossus, and Cyclops to defeat villains like Pyro, Magneto, and Sabretooth. Deemed the prelude to X-Men: The Last Stand by lead game designer Jason VandenBeghe and executive producer Scott Bandy, X-Men: The Official Game is set between the events of the second and third X-Men movies, and characters are voiced by the actors who portray them in the films.
