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X-Men: Mutant Academy 2
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 12 critic reviews
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Based on 7 votes
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Game Info
Publisher: Activision
Developer: Paradox
Genre(s): Fighting, Action
Players: 2
ESRB Rating: T (Teen)
Release Date: September 18, 2001
Summary
Train with Professor Xavier and fight your way up the ranks to become a full-fledged member of the X-MEN. Learn all-new, over-the-top mutant moves-including aerial combat-as even more of your favorite characters. Get in the ring against menacing super-villains and dominate using your super hero powers in never-before-seen arenas. [Activision]
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What The Critics Said
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Hot Games
The best PS One fighting game to come along in a while, and probably the last great fighting game for the PS One.
Read Full Review >PSX Nation
The improvements are great and make the game closer to the vision of a great 3D X-Men fighter but it’s hard to recommend a game that is so lacking in depth that it becomes quickly tiresome.
Read Full Review >GameSpot
Fairly impressive. It may be rough around the edges, but it's currently the best Marvel Comics-inspired fighting game available on a Sony video game console.
Read Full Review >IGN
By no means innovative or new in concept, but as with all good sequels, it’s better in all the right places, and for X-Men fans it’s great fun.
Read Full Review >TotalGames.net
This game is a good, solid beat-’em-up, but it’s no Street Fighter or Tekken. Despite the fact that the fighters are in 3D, the game is really a 2D experience.
Read Full Review >GameZone
It's also challenging enough and offers 16 different characters to play as for an incredible amount of replayability. It is, however, a tough game to finesse and therefore people who aren’t sure if they like the genre itself might do well to give it a rent first.
Read Full Review >GameShark
If you haven't played MA, then grab this one for all the bonus items. If you already have the first MA, then you'll only need this if you want 6 extra characters.
Read Full Review >Core Magazine
The actual gameplay has changed imperceptibly in Mutant Academy 2, but six new characters and six new stages make it feel like a much more complete fighting game.
Read Full Review >Official U.S. Playstation Magazine
The game just lacks the depth to keep hardcore fighting-game fans interested. [Nov 2001, p.167]
Game Revolution
Die hard X-Men fans should enjoy the game, if only because the characters remain faithful to their comic book origins...As a fighting game, though, MA2 is nothing special, as all the features have been done before and in fact better in other games.
Read Full Review >GamePro
The controls are still the most frustrating part of the game: They’re sloppy, inexact, and derivative of Street Fighter's with a dash of Tekken's thrown in.
Read Full Review >Electronic Gaming Monthly
The AI is so completely non-existent that the old "whack one button and win" strategy still works wonders. [Nov 2001, p.220]
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Joshua H. gave it a10:
I like that game. I used to have that. I want it again.
Kris C. gave it a 10:
next to tekken3 its the best fighting game for psx i've played.
Seth gave it a 7:
The charcters hold true to their comic book origins, but the game play gets a little tiresome after a few rounds.
