Gaming News - April 2006
Santa Monica, CA (April 24, 2006) - Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart,
Alan Cumming and Shawn Ashmore will reprise their X-Men film roles and lend
their voices to Marvel’s world famous mutants – Logan/Wolverine, Professor
Charles Xavier, Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler and Bobby Drake/Iceman – in Activision
Inc.’s X-Men: The Official Game.
From Activision:
The game catapults players into an original storyline that serves as a
prelude to Twentieth Century Fox and Marvel Studio’s upcoming film, ‘X-Men: The
Last Stand,’ and allows them to command the distinct powers of Wolverine,
Nightcrawler and Iceman as they face off against formidable enemies, battle
through massive environments and embark on an epic quest to save mutant-kind.
“Having these actors renew their movie characters in X-Men: The Official Game
immerses gamers in the X-Men movie universe,” said Will Kassoy, vice president
of global brand management, Activision Publishing. “Players will experience epic
battles and uncover the events behind Nightcrawler’s mysterious disappearance
and the roles the X-Men and Brotherhood play in the upcoming film.”
Co-written by Zak Penn, one of the film’s screenwriters, and legendary comic
book writer Chris Claremont, X-Men: The Official Game enables players to assume
the roles of Wolverine, Nightcrawler, and Iceman as they wield and upgrade their
signature powers and maneuver through unique environments designed to showcase
their Super Hero abilities. Assisted by other Marvel X-Men mutants, players use
an advanced control scheme to master and evolve the characters as they unleash
Wolverine’s combat rage, experience Nightcrawler’s acrobatics and teleportation
powers, and tear through the air on Iceman’s ice slide.
X-Men: The Official Game is being developed by Z-Axis for the PlayStation 2
computer entertainment system and the Xbox and Xbox 360 video game systems from
Microsoft. The Nintendo GameCube version is being developed by Hypnos
Entertainment; the Nintendo DS version by Amaze Entertainment; the Game Boy
Advance version by Wayforward Technologies and Beenox Studios is developing the
PC version.
The PC and console games are rated "T" (Teen - with violence) by the ESRB and
the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS titles are rated "E-10+" for (Everyone 10
and older - with fantasy violence). X-Men: The Official Game will debut at
retail outlets nationwide on Tuesday, May 16, 2006.
For more information on X-Men: The Official Game, please visit
www.x-mengame.com.
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