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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]
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more... 90
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.
 86
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.
84
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.
83
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.
79
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.
75
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.
70
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.
67
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.
60
Official U.S. Playstation Magazine
The game just lacks the depth to keep hardcore fighting-game fans interested. [Nov 2001, p.167]
58
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.
50
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.
50
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]
Joshua H. gave it a10: Kris C. gave it a 10: Seth gave it a 7: |
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