No Xbox means no games today. Did a lot of trading on Goozex.com (essentially eBay for games only) today though. Since I'm home, in Massachusetts, for the weekend I looked at all my old original Xbox games and found some of them are worth some good money on there, I offered them and have already sold 3 games for a total of $35. ...that's really good for 5 year old games.
So no games means another Top 5. Today's Top 5 is in honor of the soon to be in my mailbox and then straight to my Xbox game curtousy of another Goozex.com trader: X-men Origins: Wolverine.
Top 5 Super Hero Games (in no particular order):
1. Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects -This was a fighting game that mixed Marvel comic favorites like Wolverine, Spider-man, Iron Man and pitted them against new heroes called The Imperfects. All the new characters had amazing back stories and cool powers. They didn't feel thrown in at all, very fleshed out. Only downside, there were very limited combos for each character.
2. Marvel Ultimate Alliance -A four player beat em up in which you took control of one or all four (depending on if you played co-op or not) superheroes in your squad to defeat Dr. Doom's latest scheme. Something like 35 characters were at your disposal both well known and more niche heroes. Fun to level up your characters too. Only downside, graphics left something to be desired (and the story was flimsy but, honestly, that was not why we played it).
3. Spider-man 2 -A game based of the movie (which in the video games business is equivalent to a movie based off a book ...a.k.a. the book was (far) better type deal), this game allowed you to play as Spider-man in an open city, New York, and either play the story of fight random criminals. One of the rare movie licensed games that was fun. Swinging through the city is so fun and very fluid. Combat was also cool.
4. Spider-man: Web of Shadows -Building off of the success of Spider-man 2, Spider-man: WoS was an original story in which morality came into play. You could switch, on the fly, between the good suit and the evil, black suit which was more powerful but caused much more destruction. You made good or bad choices along an interesting story. One last cool thing about it was how many Marvel characters, and Spider-man friends and foes, were thrown into the game. A nice nod to fans.
5. Watchmen: The End is Nigh -All right. To be fair, I haven't technically beaten this one yet. ...or even own it. It's an XBLA game I played the demo for but I'll be buying it soon (when the price drops). You play as Rorsach and Nite Owl in a story that preludes the comic and movie. Fun to fill in the back story AND it's an amazing XBLA game. Great graphics, movie actors leant their voices to it, the combat's very fun (oh yeah, it's a beat em up) in which their are combos, finishing moves, weapons you can utilize and special moves involving flash bang grenades....and RAGE! Only thing keeping me from beating it already is its $20 asking price.
If my Xbox had his way I'd have beat it already too. ...and every other game available.
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AMENDMENT!!
ReplyDeleteSince I don't even own Watchmen, I'm removing that from the Top 5 and replacing it with Mortal Kombat VS DCU. A fighting game pitting the likes of Batman, Superman and The Flash against some of the most notorious characters from the Mortal Kombat games. Though it lacked presentation, the ability to select arenas conveniently and a wide range of moves for each character, Fatalities are always fun and the DC characters have never been as fun to play!