Activision and Paradox Development At it Again With X-Men: Next Dimension 

Written By Style Rodriguez

Right before the X-Men movie was released Activision, with the help from Paradox Development, released the game X-Men: Mutant Academy for the PS One. This was one title that had bounced around from developer to developer until Activision hired Paradox to do the job; Cyrox Development was the company before Paradox. Other games developed by Paradox include Wu-Tang Shaolin Style, and the never released Thrill Kill. After a short deadline and a bunch of long nights X-Men was released and all were happy with the finished product. Then X-Men 2 was released last November and it was a hit with the fans that supported the first one. Sadly the new title didn’t bring anyone else onto the X-Men bandwagon.  The time has come again for a new X-Men on the new gaming platforms that are out there, and the Gamecube is one of them.

As you know, this is going to be the second Fighting Game being published by Activision, the first is Blood Roar: Primal Fury, that is being developed by Hudson Soft. Along with the fact that the new X-Men game is being developed for the Gamecube the game is also in the works for the PS 2 and the X-Box. Here is what we have right now; Prime Sentential is backing up Bastion in an in your face fight with Forge. During the battle Forge gets captured and the X-Men have to save him before all of Mutant kind is wiped out. One of the twists in this game is that the X-Men have to team up with the Brotherhood Of Mutants to save Forge; the Brotherhood is lead by no other than Magneto himself.

Right now, from what we know, the characters that are going to be in this new version are Magneto, Cyclops, Wolverine, Mystique, The Toad, Beast, Phoenix, and Forge. There are new arenas that will be in this new version as well. We don’t know if there is going to be a change on the control scheme. The Combat is going to be just like it was in the second, with super moves, X moves, and of course the air combos.

This title is coming along quite well from what we know, so keep your eyes open for this one.  It looks like Paradox could do it again with the power of the new consoles. When get fresh info on this title we'll give you the heads up.

Publisher   Activision   Developer   Paradox   Development   Platform   Gamecube   Player   One to Two Player

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