X2: Wolverine's Revenge (Mac)

Rating:
Summary: An Avid Mac Gamer
Review: I bought X2: Wolverine's Revenge a couple months ago with high hopes of it becomming a new fixation of mine, like Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne (as dissimilar as they may be). Though it wasn't a bad game it simply didn't deliver as much as I had hopped.
A few years back I downloaded a demo of Oni from a MacAddict CD and absolutely loved it, the whole hand-to-hand combat thing really did it for me. When I read a little about X2 I immediatly though of Oni. Let me tell you this, regardless of whether you liked Oni or not X2 isn't too much like it, that may be a good or a bad thing it's up to you.
Probably the main reason I gave this game a 3 was due to it's difficulty, I had to cheat through the last four levels just to complete the game it was so hard for me. I don't concider myself to be a fantastic gamer but I'm not new to games either, definently concider this difficulty issue before purchasing. It wasn't just the last four levels that I found tough, from about level six or so things got pretty tricky, even when I had only progressed half way through the game I encountered levels that literally required me to replay them over thirty times or more, that probably seems like a staggering number but I was working completely by trial and error, mostly error. I imagine most people would figure out a level way faster than this but it will no doubt frustrate you, if you hate frustration don't order this game unless you find it REALLY cheap.
On a different note the game has a few good sides, the graphics are nice, not blow your mind nice but still good. The sound is also quite decent, particularly the soundtrack (most of the time anyway) which features a fair number of tracks. Gameplay is alright, it's pretty linear and you can only proform a handful of moves but special moves called strike moves are very cool to watch anyway (as you don't actually control Wolverine as he executes these). The stike moves will become more powerful and cooler to watch as you complete more levels, I found the whole stike move idea both fun and origional.
You should have no problem running the game on you Mac, I used a dual 1 GHz tower with a GeForce 4MX video card and although that's easily above the system requirements I never even came close to expirencing any low frame-rates while fighting off a room full of dumb enemies (so lesser systems should do OK most of the time anyway).
To sum it up I enjoyed some of Wolverines Revenge but it was just to frustrating to recommend full heartedly.
(You may also want to note that the default control settings were terrible as many reviews said, I remapped them like Oni's (all around the wasd area) and it worked great).

Rating:
Summary: An Avid Mac Gamer
Review: I bought X2: Wolverine's Revenge a couple months ago with high hopes of it becomming a new fixation of mine, like Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne (as dissimilar as they may be). Though it wasn't a bad game it simply didn't deliver as much as I had hopped.
A few years back I downloaded a demo of Oni from a MacAddict CD and absolutely loved it, the whole hand-to-hand combat thing really did it for me. When I read a little about X2 I immediatly though of Oni. Let me tell you this, regardless of whether you liked Oni or not X2 isn't too much like it, that may be a good or a bad thing it's up to you.
Probably the main reason I gave this game a 3 was due to it's difficulty, I had to cheat through the last four levels just to complete the game it was so hard for me. I don't concider myself to be a fantastic gamer but I'm not new to games either, definently concider this difficulty issue before purchasing. It wasn't just the last four levels that I found tough, from about level six or so things got pretty tricky, even when I had only progressed half way through the game I encountered levels that literally required me to replay them over thirty times or more, that probably seems like a staggering number but I was working completely by trial and error, mostly error. I imagine most people would figure out a level way faster than this but it will no doubt frustrate you, if you hate frustration don't order this game unless you find it REALLY cheap.
On a different note the game has a few good sides, the graphics are nice, not blow your mind nice but still good. The sound is also quite decent, particularly the soundtrack (most of the time anyway) which features a fair number of tracks. Gameplay is alright, it's pretty linear and you can only proform a handful of moves but special moves called strike moves are very cool to watch anyway (as you don't actually control Wolverine as he executes these). The stike moves will become more powerful and cooler to watch as you complete more levels, I found the whole stike move idea both fun and origional.
You should have no problem running the game on you Mac, I used a dual 1 GHz tower with a GeForce 4MX video card and although that's easily above the system requirements I never even came close to expirencing any low frame-rates while fighting off a room full of dumb enemies (so lesser systems should do OK most of the time anyway).
To sum it up I enjoyed some of Wolverines Revenge but it was just to frustrating to recommend full heartedly.
(You may also want to note that the default control settings were terrible as many reviews said, I remapped them like Oni's (all around the wasd area) and it worked great).