X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse was a Quake mod you could buy in shops, and that's far from the only weird thing about it.
wrote Crapshoot, a column about rolling the dice to bring random games back into the light. This week, a Storm rises, a Gambit is played, and Wolverine's healing factor goes up against the best the Quake engine can dish out. No, really. This isn't quite a game, but one of very few examples of a commercial Total Conversion—a mod that, as the name suggests, takes one game and turns it into another.
Instead, he deploys his latest invention—an experiment best described as NotCable. His real name is unknown. His underpants are unflattering. In the true spirit of the 90s, his hands areSomehow, this is 90% less badass than it sounds, mostly because Magneto performs the operation while openly mocking him for wanting that kind of power in the first place, and kicks him out into the battle with little more than"Yeah, you might succeed." And hopefully some trousers.
Usually you encounter groups of the gang, who attack en masse and relentlessly. Worse, several have lockdown powers, and Iceman and Psylocke can both freeze you in place. Other attacks have insane knockback. There's never enough ammo, and even the best weapons are pretty weak in the inevitable pile-ups.
The most annoying part of the game though is what you're meant to be doing, above and beyond making the X-Men look like cannon fodder. Both Apocalypse and his Mystery Ally are invulnerable to all attacks, which seems a bit unfair, with the exception being a weapon that has be gathered up while exploring the levels.
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