Back in 1992, I was eight, my father had bought this game and the Spider-Man and Captain America in Doctor Doom’s Revenge.
I enjoyed the Doom game as I could actually play it. The X-Men game, I feel like I just played until all of my people were dead and restarted it. I’m not sure if I was just too young, I didn’t have the instruction manual or was just too new to video games on the PC.
I didn’t know who any of the characters were. Shadowcat just had kicking and punching abilities and on the map, she could walk through walls. I couldn’t find any footage on YouTube of people playing her in the combat section but here is a video of the dungeon crawling portion.
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Here is a cool video of the beginning of the game :
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Apparently someone actually beat the game, so that was fun to discover this video :
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I wouldn’t mind being able to play this game.
Pretty decent line up of characters too!
It wasn’t until I was looking at these videos that I realize that this is an Alternate Universe version of the Fall of the Mutants, which is pretty cool concept for a game.
Thanks to YouTuber Ewaldo Neto for hosting the video! I was hoping to get one where someone was using Kitty Pryde and Magik on the same team but I couldn’t find one.
So there was a while when I was addicted to this game.
By the time I started playing it, Kitty Pryde was already an available character AND had two costumes to choose from. As soon as I could recruit her, I made sure she was my first one of my own choosing to do so.
Somehow I was able to do it before recruiting Hawkeye, as he is most people’s third hero. I must have spent the in-game gold to get the necessary CP (Command Points) to get her.
I say Facebook game, but you could also play on Playdom’s own website too but you can’t transfer accounts.
Two events lead to my stop playing the game –
1) My home computer died
2) I couldn’t recruit Elektra, who was a Lockbox hero
I knew that the Lockboxes were going to be the end of my tenure with the game. Juggernaut was the first PVP (Player vs Player) Lockbox character and I was barely able to get him. Elektra was the next one, and I always said that once I couldn’t get the Exclusive Character, that I was done.
My wife hated that I played this game as much as I did. The clicking of the mouse drove her crazy.
I downloaded the Dolphin App for my Kindle Fire, so that I could use Flash and the game was practically impossible to play on the darn thing. It was a fun couple months.
To tie in with AvX, Playdom released Magik and that was an awesome! They did a really great job of tying in with the comic book storylines. They did their own version of the storyline (sort of like how the movies do) but had the same characters, for the most part. It was fun seeing their own continuity take place.
I tried recently to play the game again, as I heard they increased the max level cap from 12 to 14 but the Dolphin app was still impossible to use. There are very specific spots you are suppose to click and I cannot either increase the size of the screen or have the patience to locate all the spots. It just wasn’t fun anymore.
But if you had a proper computer and like Facebook games, I would recommend it though I imagine new players would be put off with how far behind they are and how all the Lockbox heroes are impossible to get unless you want to spend real money on them.
Here are the heroes I recruited, in order :
Iron Man, Black Widow, Kitty Pryde Hawkeye, She-Hulk, Iron Fist, Cyclops, Ms. Marvel, Invisible Woman, Luke Cage, Black Panther, Magik, Hulk, Daredevil, Quicksilver, Ghost Rider, Beast, Storm, Wolverine, Valkyrie, Emma Frost, Nightcrawler, Jean Grey, Deadpool, Tigra, Havok, Magneto, Mockingbird, Hank Pym, Black Knight, Psylocke, Captain Britain, Human Torch, Omega Sentinel, Vision, Punisher, War Machine, Union Jack, Rescue, Black Cat, X23, Thundra, Juggernaut, Wonder Man, Constrictor, Scarlet Witch, Fantomex, Angel, Damion Hellstrom, Satana, Gambit, Rogue, Spider-Woman, Doctor Strange, Shatterstar, Hercules and Cable.
Wonder Man was the hero you recruited when you finished the Special Operation, a bonus level that they released particular once every two months or so.
I had vowed to never recruit Colossus and I would just pay the 25 gold to skip the final task of any Special Operation to not do the Epic Boss that required certain characters to complete the final task.
If you know who the Special Operations characters are, which you can learn more from the Wikipedia page –
You can tell exactly who were the required heroes to unlock the epic boss and get the character as that was the order I recruited heroes in. I saved and saved my CP until I got at least 325 points (enough to get three expensive characters) and from there, maybe I would be tempted to use any extra CP to unlock costumes (which I rarely did, except for Kitty and the rumored Magik one that has yet to happen) or other characters.
I was crazy involved on the Playdom boards and thanks to the boards, was able to anticipate which heroes were going to be needed for the next SO and trying my best to save enough CP to get them all.
Mockingbird and Emma, I had to buy after they were rereleased as I missed out on their Special Operations. Actually, I got there just as Emma’s was starting but I had no idea what I was doing and I didn’t want to unlock Colossus so I just let it passed. Once she was gone, she was gone for good (or so I thought).
It was a fun ride, it occupied a bunch of time in my head and in RL and I have no idea would I would manage to keep up with my life now that we have Walker Dennis.
I can barely keep up with Criminal Case – the only Facebook game I still play now. And that’s mostly due to my wife playing it and so I can play it guilt free as we can play together. I tried Juice Cubes and Candy Crush Saga but they got to levels that just were no fun anymore to keep trying.
Facebook games as made me realize that these games are free and why I would ever pay $60 for a game and $600 for a game system? I barely have twenty minutes to play a free game so spending $700 for a system that I probably won’t even watch BluRays on, is maddening. Not sure how other parents do it. Or they wait until their children are older and can keep themselves occupied.
I wish I could do another screen shot of the heroes I recruited as I did enjoy looking at it, all that time and energy into recruiting all of them.
Okay, I was able to quickly get these screen caps of my roster –
I was trying to sneak and do this and I had to click so many buttons to skip all of the news items. Special Operation for Rocket Raccoon was happening and a new PvP tournament.
Getting those images, sort of makes me want to sneak and play the game on a good computer but I can’t risk that. If only the Kindle Fire would have Flash properly on their platform, I bet I could get back in there. Would be annoying for all of the exclusive characters I missed out on but these things happen.
57 characters I was able to recruit, that is pretty impressive!
Last I left, it was the Special Operation that Damion Hellstrom and Satana were available for. Also, Season Two had just been released and that’s why I started getting all of those additional characters as I was changing my game philosphy as I wanted to just stay current on who the game wanted me to have. I had plenty of gold so I could have an easily time with the Special Operations.
Another thing that killed my buzz for the game was that they redid PvP and made it so that you can have two teams – Defending Team and Attacking Team. So everyone, of course, made their defending team a high defense team and that’s who you had to beat. Playdom only required five wins a day but those five wins, for me, probably took ten to fifteen fights and I just couldn’t commit to that as it takes five minutes each (if you are lucky). That’s what the video above is all about, its a PvP match up.
Just to end on a higher note, here are two videos to show off Kitty and Magik!
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Thanks to YouTuber o PRIM0 o for hosting for this video!
Looking at so many of these videos, also makes me want to play the game. Also, to figure out how people even made those videos as I wouldn’t mind just making my own video with Kitty Pryde and Magik.
I do love so much how Kitty got a move that uses Lockheed AND that from time to time, Lockheed will just help out as well. Such a fun gimmick. They did the same with Magik, having Limbo demons make surprise attacks as well.
Since I’m trying to make this my Everything Avengers Alliance, I will share this as well :
My wife also thought the game just looked dumb as well. The heroes don’t have any special graphics. The images above would just move from their slot to the other side and then a graphic comes down. I thought it was good enough but she just hated how addicted I was (and I can’t blame her now that I’m months passed it now – almost a year passed it now that I think of it) but that it was such a simple looking game, she couldn’t see what I saw in it.
I mean, it is a free Marvel game with as many characters as you would initially want. What is there to not enjoy?
Emma / Spec Op 2 was during July / August 2012 and Season Two came out August 2013, which was when Elektra became available to start unlocking in PVP which was shorlty after Spec Op 11 ended.
So I played for close to a year and now a year as come and gone. I’ve kept the app on my Facebook profile so I see the logo from time to time but it sure left its hold on me.
I also liked how they gave Kitty, for her second costume, her blue Excalibur look.
The art used for profiles and dialogue was always nice too.
There, I’m pretty sure that’s all my thoughts on the game.
So I wrote the bulk of above, on August 18, 2014 – a long time ago. I then got sucked back into the game but after Special Operations 23, with Spitfire, I had to call it quits again – as it was sucking up too much of my time!
I did have a great time in playing again but I was so far behind that I spent $40 on Gold to get CP and Lockboxes and had plans to buy more but enough was enough (again).
Here are the heroes I recuited, after Cable and coming back for a second time –
I’m sure it was making this post, in the first place, that made me want to keep going back to the game but it was fun. I was mostly seeking characters that I needed to unlock the epic bosses.
I do feel bad, as I got four new allies but I will remain on their ally list, and at level 300, will be a pretty good ally for deploys and another ally to recruit daily items from my map.
Edit 12-6-15 – I think I’m going to try to keep playing when a new Special Operation is going on, as those characters cost 200 CP, later on. Which is pretty hard to save up on, after the fact.
I will play on Sundays too, as the Daily Mission offers CP, even though I have never won CP on Sundays. I’m trying to get 200CP now for Falcon, and I’m at 62 – so it is taking time.
I now have recruited Brother VooDoo and Jessica Jones.
I have rented this game on the PS2 and had owned it on the PS3. Now I would like to own it on the XBox 360, as I keep thinking about it. I use to own a PS3, and prefer that system, but then mine got the Yellow Light Of Death and died on me, taking with it my copy of Fallout 3. Which I love that game, probably go down as my favorite video game, knocking Chrono Trigger out of the first slot.
It is a very fun game, and if you buy the DLC, you get to play in the classic tan costume, the classic yellow and blue as well as the X-Force costume. Which I thought really added to the replayability of the game. Also on the DLC pack, was a Danger Room, which was cool – at first. I don’t think those deaths added to your totals so it was just a fun way to test out the new uniforms. They don’t do anything else, but it was cool to see them at first and not worry about progressing in the story.
There is a moment in it that has changed video games for me and sort of ruin them for me.
Thanks to YouTuber thegamerwalkthroughs for hosting this nearly one hour video! Pretty much, click to any section of the video to see what I’m talking about.
So, spoilers maybe?, Logan gets the adamantium and is breaking out of the Weapon X facility. You must kill like hundreds of guys to escape. Once you do, there are like another hundreds of guys. Throughout the game, you kill pretty much hundreds of guys, be it in a Sentinel facility or in the jungle, so many dead soldiers.
Here is my issue with all of this, as cool as it is to be Wolverine and slashing and dicing your way through fools. If you heard a bunch of ruckus outside in the lobby, and you see twenty guys running down the hall and then clear signs of murder and mayhem, would you walk out into that hallway and confront what is out there? I think and think about this scenario a bunch.
I suppose there is the off chance, that he killed three hundred people, so now he might be tired so I might be the guy who kills him or knocks him out. Thus, I become a hero and get a school named after me – or something like that. But the chances are much higher than all I do is become dead guy number 351.
Which the game has awesome trophies, like kill 30 ghosts (soldiers that can cloak themselves), which of course, I was a big trophy hunter on the PS3. So you kill so many people.
After I confirmed that 30 of my coworkers were dead, I would just hide somewhere. Yes, like a coward, and then once I saw he had went down another corridor, and killed a bunch of more silly gooses, I would run like crazy the other direction and get outside and into my car and go home. Sure, my wife would be surprised that I was home early, and she might think less of me in the moment. But then, the next day, when that city announces how they lost thirty eight percent of their workforce and 2 percent of the male population, she will think differently. Hopefully.
I will show back at work the next day. Probably get an instant promotion and might have to eat some crow but I will be alive with the other guys who were out sick that day or upper management that had the good sense to not come downstairs.
I mean, honestly, what forces these video game characters to just keep coming at you after you had cleared an entire section. Maybe they don’t know what I did in the previous room? Like the guys outside, might be under the impression that you took the shortest route possible to get outside.
Some of these guys are quasi-protected with cloaking shields, or actual shields, or super good body armor. But still, once Wolverine kills one guy with the super good body armor, you would think the second guy would just go home.
The super mutant creatures, those I get, they don’t know anything, they break out of their glass cage and attack the only guy in the room. That I get, or video games with creatures versus humans, that is all pure instinct. But games where it is man killing man, like Call of Duty, which I am not a first person shooter guy at all so I don’t play those, I don’t get the second guy who goes into the room. Sure, you may die in that level, but then you are forced to replay it until you get it right, so eventually – in the reality of the game itself – you still kill those people, that guy doesn’t get to brag about killing your character in some sort of perverse alternate universe of the game.
There is a portion in the Weapon X facility where you have to fight like five of those Ghosts and they do hurt with whatever that gun of theirs is. But those characters even have a special way to kill them, if you get up close and toggle triangle enough, you can kill them with their own gun. Once you have done that to three of them, why would the other two guys kept coming at you? I would just turn on my cloaking device and slowly work my way out of the room.
It isn’t that I am a coward, it just doesn’t make any sense to me to add to that madman hero’s death toll. And it isn’t even like Wolverine later brags to Mystique or Waith about the deaths up to that point.
FX, which I love how they just straight up play Marvel movies at this point, and supposedly when I am in the mood for them, aired Wolverine Origins recently. The fight between Wolverine and Gambit, is so much better in the video game. I had forgotten when I started this point, about the Gambit levels. There are these ninja ladies with bad arse swords, and they are difficult at first, but then you end up killing at least fifty of them in one play through. Amazing that the game developers okayed the act of Wolverine killing lady ninjas, very progressive of them. I am sure in those Arkham games, Batman just merely punches (no more than three times) or chases after the few female characters except for at the door in Arkham City. I do enjoy those Batman games, I have to wait until the Game of the Year edition of Origins comes out before I buy that one. Like the Grand Theft Auto franchise (or any RockStar game at this point) I wait for the Game of the Year edition so that I don’t have to keep up with the DLC. And it isn’t like I am online with any particular community, so I am not missing out on any conversations. Or once the GotY comes out, then the conversations restart anyways.
I do like how those Batman games, you get a finite amount of guys to fight. Mostly, those crooks are just patroling a room and keeping their eyes open for Batman to report back to Joker or Penguin. I am sure they hope they don’t have to come across Batman, but even if they do, it isn’t like he is popping his claws and killing everybody. You are pretty safe from death with Batman. Then once he leaves the room, there is a high chance you just go home afterwards, or someplace else, only on a few occasions do you still see the knocked out thugs laying about.
Fallout 3 is nice like that, just a few finite foes, outside of the respawn areas. Plus, it is an open world, so maybe the Raiders are not telling each other about the Lone Wanderer and his hijinks. Plus, the world of Fallout 3, it is every person out for themselves so you have to kill or be killed. Also, there are the ghouls, and they are just into attacking whatever is in front of them. Such a great game, I need to replay that one as well.
Once my PS3 died, I traded it in with all of the games and only made a point of replacing a few of the games. Grand Theft Auto 4 plus Episodes, both Batman games, Fallout 3 and TMNT. My problem is that with those games, is that it is a lot of work and I am essentially just replaying them to get to the open world aspect of them. Like I was in the middle of Fallout 3, just wanting to get to the end of the story to roam or replay only a certain part of the game. It is just hard to recapture that initial energy. One of these days, I want to get Red Dead Redemption, but I have no idea when I can even play a new game.
Which is nice about Wolverine Origins : Uncaged, it has that same saving feature of the Batman games, you enter a new room, and it usually saves so you can drop and pick up the game pretty much at any point. We need more games like that or like Fallout 3, when you can do quick saves by resting for bit. Of course, as long as there are no enemies around.
Last issue ended with the X-Men showing up to protect who they think is an innocent 15 year old boy from a killer robot.
Wolverine acts way crazier in this issue than I think he ought to be written as. He is constantly working his own hero name into the conversation and it seems odd for him to be referring to himself in the third person.
There are two whole pages dedicated for recapping the previous issue. The 80s!
A blizzard starts coming down. Kurt thinks Storm should have a better control over her powers, she tells him that it isn’t her doing.
Wolverine slashes ROM and ROM feels utter pain. Wolverine is out to kill the poor guy, and all over a misunderstanding!
Kitty is surprised, as I am, that Wolverine seems to be so berserk. We learn that Hybrid can read minds as well.
Wolverine calls Colossus, Man of Steel – which I’m surprised isn’t a nickname that is used more for the Russian.
Wolverine also starts the first of three instances where he detects a greater evil but can’t quite place it but he knows it isn’t ROM but for some reason, he will keep fighting ROM as if that is where the source of the evil is.
Poor ROM wonders if he has to keep fighting Earth’s superheroes as he met Jack of Hearts in issue 12 of his own series. I wouldn’t recommend seeking that issue out as Jack of Hearts is horrible. Or at least, when he was part of the Avengers during Goeff Johns’ run and died in Bendis’ Avengers Disassembled, I didn’t miss him. I probably just never ‘got’ the character but is that really on me?
Turns out that Hybrid has been manipulating Storm’s weather powers to make the blizzard worst but she is able to at least make it bearable.
ROM sees that Jimmy has reverted to his Hybrid true form and tries to warn Kitty as she has been holding Jimmy this entire time – trying to protect him.
Kitty can’t hear ROM’s warning, with the wind gale. ROM comes charging at her, to safe her, but she freaks out and phases through him. The panel of him quickly on his knees and the caption of how intense the nausea he is feeling, is palpable. Which I guess I don’t quite know ROM’s deal. They keep calling him a cyborg but how much of him is made up of robot parts and how much is humanoid? Or is he like a Dalek, and is a little dude in a metal can?
That’s another thing, so the X-Men are here to locate a new mutant. They see ROM and just assume he is an evil mutant in a robot body. How often has that happened to them before or since? I can’t think of any examples.
Thus begins some great confusion, made worst by the weather. Essentially, everyone has to figure things out on their own and fight their own battles.
Hybrid starts choking ROM with his mind powers. ROM tries to fire his Neutralizer but Colossus thinks ROM is aiming at Kitty and does the dumbest thing. He tackles Hybrid, and as thanks, gets force reverted back to his human form and Hybrid starts choking him!
Kurt starts giving Colossus CPR to try to save him.
Wolverine, again, senses true evil but sees ROM, wonders why he keeps holding back and yet again, starts trying to fight the greatest spaceknight of them all.
Then comes probably my three favorite panels of the comic. Kitty realizes that ROM is the good guy and that must mean that Jimmy is the bad guy. She still hasn’t seen Hybrid yet. The three panels of her going from – curious to suspicious to utter shock, are amazing and Buscema really knows what he is doing with pacing.
I know people seem to think John Buscema is the bigger name of the two brothers but I’ve always been a much bigger fan of Sal’s work. I’m sure I only own or have an read John’s work on a rare occasion.
Probably doesn’t have to be mention, but I felt the need to defend Sal’s legacy and my preference. Sometimes a man has to do what a man has to do.
Hybrid also has commented that he will use Kitty has the first of his many breeding opportunities. Which is way gross! He will later have the same plan for Mystique, Destiny and Rogue.
Kitty, or Sprite as her teammates insist on calling her, scolds herself for being scared. She’s an X-Man now and has to go on the offense. So she turns a snowmobile toward Hybrid and he counters by breaking it into its base components and throwing it back at her.
She luckily phases through the pieces but the blizzard is hurting her concentration, so she needs to change tactics.
Just then, she bumps into Wolverine, who is still out for blood. She finally tells him that he is after the wrong guy. The two X-Men see Hybrid knock ROM’s gun out of his hand.
Wolverine gets the bright idea that the gun must be an effective weapon and tries to fire it at Hybrid.
Instead of firing, the force backfires onto Wolverine as a type of security measure. We’ll see why ROM needs a security measure later in the issue.
Kitty figures the gun has to be used and that she might be able to do what the reckless Wolverine couldn’t. Due to the way her powers work, she is able to manipulate the weapon and fires it at Hybrid.
ROM tells her to change the setting of the gun so that it is on full force.
This tears Hybrid to pieces, which are also even grosser than his whole. There is one bad side effect to this, doing so leaves a portal open to the limbo dimension that ROM sends all Dire Wraiths to.
Who goes through the portal? ROM does! He has tasted his own medicine, and has found it to be … bitter!
The gun overwhelms Kitty and she drops it. The X-Men gather around her, as far as they are concern, they have done everything they can do.
There is a Hostess Fruit Pie ad starring Thing in Earthly Delights.
As they walk away, we see that the Neutralizer is just laying there on the snow. Without it, ROM is stuck in limbo!
Which I don’t own the next issue. The next issue of ROM that I own is 31, and by then, he has escaped limbo. I’ve already reviewed ROM 32, which is when Hybrid returns, so even he escapes his fate from this issue.
Of my eight issues that I own of ROM Spaceknight – we now have reviewed three of them. The other issues are 45, 65, 66 and Annual 3. Not sure when we’ll get to those but one of these days. Annual 3 could be as soon as two years from now! Exciting!
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Also, for any Batman : Arkham City fans out there – Today is St. Roch’s Day! The only holiday in August!
Thanks to YouTuber PenMaster3000 for hosting the video!
Shadow and Flame with Magik 