15 Facts About X-Men Legends

X-Men Legends is an action role-playing video game developed by Raven Software and published by Activision.

X-Men Legends follows Alison Crestmere, a young mutant who has the ability to summon and control volcanic activity.

N-Gage version of X-Men Legends contains most of the features found on the console versions.

X-Men Legends is not set in any particular Marvel Comics universe.

X-Men Legends is in turn rescued from Mystique and Blob by the X-Men Wolverine and Cyclops, who take her to the Xavier Institute to explore her powers.

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X-Men Legends was announced in a press release by Activision on April 23,2003.

X-Men Legends developed the three console versions simultaneously, and used Vicarious Visions' Alchemy engine as a base for the game.

X-Men Legends uses cel shading to give the characters a comic-like appearance.

Character costumes were inspired by Marvel Comics' Ultimate X-Men, but some of the X-Men playable in X-Men Legends had not appeared in the comics at the time of its release so, with permission from Marvel, Raven created unique looks for those characters.

X-Men Legends received mostly positive reviews, with the Xbox version receiving the highest aggregate scores of 83.

In 2011, GamePro retrospectively listed "the melee combat, ability to customize your stats, and multiplayer" among the strong points of X-Men Legends, adding that the game "was so successful that it created a well-received sequel and paved the way for the Marvel Ultimate Alliance series".

X-Men Legends criticized the AI for being "[a] bit stupid at inopportune times" and for failing to use the game's healing abilities at important moments.

X-Men Legends sold enough copies to be inducted into the budget lines for all three consoles on which it was released: PlayStation 2's Greatest Hits, GameCube's Player's Choice, and Xbox's Platinum Hits.

Sequel, X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse was released for all major platforms in the fall of 2005, and the N-Gage later that year.

The success of the X-Men Legends series led Raven Software, Marvel, and Activision to create the video game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, which was released on several consoles, handheld devices and the PC in 2007.