Why Is This X-Men Fighting Game Ignored ?!
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- čas přidán 4. 05. 2023
- In today's video we discuss X-Men Mutant Academy. A late original PlayStation fighting game that was released to coincide with the launch of the X-Men movie. Why does this fighting game not game ignored in favour of Capcom's Children of the Atom and Marvel vs Capcom series?
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Favorite GBC fighter was X-Men academy game .
And the PS2 follow-up X-Men Next Dimension?
Bro I still have this game in the original case
Mutant Academy 2 was my first exposure to console fighting games. I was 5 years old and didnt know what i was doing, but i had so much fun! I would cry happy tears if a new X-Men fighting game came out.
I remember that it was fun. I liked seeing Spider man there as a secret character.
@@waelalabri7219 RIGHTT?? dannggg
I never played the first game but I absolutely loved Mutant Academy 2, that game was so much fun at the time.
It also pretty good fighter on the GBC handheld .
You dont really need to play the first game if you have the 2nd one. It has all the characters from the first game.
That’s true @Chaz4543. It’s one of those sequels that if it were released in this day and age, it would not have even been released as a sequel but an expansion pack or DLC because it’s almost literally the same game. I can tell you that the biggest difference between the two is the frame rate. It’s painfully slow in the first game compared to the 2nd one.
X-men mutant academy was such an underrated game! I had a blast with that game on PS1 💯💯💯
Also why Marvel Nemesis is ignored
That game is awesome, but the story mode was lackluster and the characters were really unbalanced and stage hazards were nuts lol😊
....cause it was trash
A underrared game I miss playing it on the PSP and a sequel was almost finished but then got cancelled this game need a remaster or something.
Game wasn't good but was okay
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It didn't offer as much gameplay and multiplayer options as Marvel Ultimate Alliance.
The story sucked and the game is broken.
The first one is entirely serviceable. The second one, however, expands everything and was amazing. I legit recently played it this week and the combos are still so satisfying. The 3rd one tried a completely new thing and was not great. Thanks for this video!
didn't even know there was a third one. But I remember when I unlocked Spiderman in the 2nd one, I was so excited! It was a complete surprise for me since I didn't know he was in the game.
Just like the Capcom game, some of the voice actors from the animated series voiced the characters in that game which was another good highlight
Well, didn’t know this game existed. A pleasant surprise. Thank you for sharing this and backing it up with a great first-hand account!
The second Game is really fun 😊
@@bernardocatrilef2846 no one remembers the Gameboy color X-Men academy ? That was actually a good fighter for the gbc
I loved this game so much. I still have both for PS1 and the Third on PS2. Although Next Dimension wasn't nearly as good. I used to play it on the Connectix VGS emulator with my friends at school 🙂
I never hear anyone ever mention these. Your fight game coverage continues to impress. Thanks for calling these out!
Such memories!!! Remember the magazines had iceman and apocalypse in the game but omitted them later on
Wow! I remember the ads for this but totally forgot about it until now. Great video!
Under appreciated. Loved this game. Felt cutting edge to me at the time.
I still have this game, its hella fun. My go-to was Sabertooth.
Still have my original copy. If you haven't, you should also cover X-Men Next Dimension (PS2) era. It had a much larger roster of 28 X-Men (4 of them are secret characters).
Except Next Dimension was fucking balls.
@@DanPantzig Yeah, I know. I only recommended it out of pure nostalgia. The game had so many playability issues it's no wonder it was ever greenlit anyway. I hope we'll see a better 3D Marvel-Only fighter in the future that has actual polish. I have nothing against Capcom, but I kinda want to see what other developers can do. Maybe Arc System Works?
Xbox had more characters than PS2
My older brother introduced me to Mutant Academy 2 on his PS1 and when he gave me his original Xbox, I owned Next Dimension
These were some of the first fighting games I ever played as a kid. I was a huge X-Men fan so I remember playing Mutant Academy 1 & 2 as well as Next Dimension. I tried them again rather recently and they hold up pretty OK. Wish I could find a way to play Next Dimension because I haven't been able to find one yet.
Man I remember seeing this game in a comic and needing to play it, but it never got released in my country and I never came across anyone who heard of this game much less had it
This was one of my favorite ps1 games. Wolverine had the sickest grab of any fighting game. He would jump off his opponent Over their shoulder and as they turned their head wolverine would hit them with a kick launching his opponent across the stage. What made it so cool was the way they animated it. The way the camera spun around and the screen paused for a second, just long enough for you to think " oh crap " before getting blasted.
Mutant Academy was a great fighter and I still have it, Mutant Academy 2, and Next Dimension
I absolutely loved this game! My older brother played it a lot. He had the edge at first but I was able to close the gap with cyclops specifically. He would pick juggernaut when he wanted to stop being nice and win 😂
Thank you so much for making this video and your content in general. You don’t understand how often x men video games live in my head! I’m a comic book guy obviously but I have all the games and play them regularly and to see content on them makes me so happy. It’s a niche now until Disney bring them back which has been bubbling since the dawn of the millennia, however I do appreciate your content it’s so top tier and incessantly reminds me of x men video game goodness along with your social commentary well done and thank you
Thank you, have a video coming on Mutant Academy 2 next week :)
This is one of my lost gems of my ol playstation.. I totally forgot I had this game.. I had over 200 games for that PS1 back in the day..
I played this game back in the day, and I totally forgot it existed.
I forgot about Mutant Academy until GoW director Cory Barlog mentioned he worked as an animator on those titles at Paradox
I LOVE this game and its good to see it getting some attention. I spent countless hours in Survival Mode and thought that offered a unique play mode for a fighting game when it came out. Seeing a video on MA2 and Next Dimension would be awesome. I liked MA2 a lot but I could never find it in stores, and just rented it a bunch.
I have many fond memories of Mutant Academy 2, I remember arcade mode being hard as hell so i would just use the cheat code to unlock the secret characters. towards the end my disc was so scratched that each fight would take 2 minutes to load but i would still play it😂😂
"May make a video for it"? That's Mr. Top Hat Gaming's way of saying for to expect to see it in the next 3 months, yay. Unlike when our mum and pops say "Maybe....", Top Hat Gaming means it.👍💗
Expect Mutant Academy 2, this week!
Nostalgia engaged! Lol Thanks for this awesome video! Please cover X-Men Next Dimension (PS2, Xbox, etc.) @ some point. That one was TRULY JANKY, but fun. Lol Keep up the great work! 😎
I thought it was great! From what I remember Gambit and Beast were cut last minute from the film. I wonder if those costumes were what they were going to look like?
I was younger so I hated this game without even playing it because I was mad capcom lost the license to use marvel characters at the time
I don't see why Marvel would make this decision,
because Capcom & Sega is better than Paradox & Activision.
Funny they mention Thrill Kill, there were bootlegs that got around, mine had the bosses unlocked and the normal game tracks replaced with copyrighted music.
I love this game series from 1, but I find that 2 was by far the superior sequel. We do not speak of Next Dimension though.
I feel like you purposely showed the old X-Men #1 cover when talking about the Jim Lee cover X-Men #1 knowing full well someone would comment and thus helping yourself in the algorithm...
You devious bastard.
This brings back such good memories from back in the day. I was 13 when this game was released, i enjoyed the second one even more.
Ohhhh GAWWWWD, X-Men Next Dimension was another obscure fighting game that I played on the game cube.
I vaguely remember this game. I had the Playstation, but rarely played it because I spent so much time on the Saturn. When we did play it, we were playing Tekken, Battle Arena Toshinden or the Soul Edge/Calibur series. This game was late to the party and looked tragic compared to the Capcom games that proceeded it.
I saw this video's thumbnail after watching a gaming video, and had to watch. My brother owned this game when we were kids. When I played, I was prone to spamming throws and the hard punches. This game is why I always think fighting games aren't my forte, even though I have gotten into the Mortal Kombat series and played the Injustice games.
my very first game for my ps1 was a demo disc with multiple on it, most importantly this game. i replayed it so many times my parents finally bought it for me. 😂
Mutant academy was amazing and 2 was even better. Gambit was my main! and beast was also a crazy fighter
Not everyone was an X-Men (2000) movie fan. I didn't mind, but I had many caveats. PS2 was new and hot, and PS1 was at its end. So, when a game came out, that one, and it was a Fighter, well, I took it as a TMNT Tournament Fighters type.
It wasn't until Marvel vs Capcom, that people gave it a chance based on SF and the X characters being shown on the cover as their comic book counterparts.
As an X-Men fan, the films were the worst at casting, depictions, and plot. The Marvel Comics version of the X-Men would easily destroy the 20th Century Fox versions of the characters, if there were a multiverse crossover.
Also, Marvel vs. Capcom did a better job at depicting their superpowers.
I still remember the Bullet-Time inspired throws!
Good background music choice! It’s from the arcade game!
DEEP CUT! 😂😂
And the character select screen features art from JoeMad! 🔥
Yeah, JoeMad is one of my all time fav Marvel artists, alongside Carlos Pacheco, Jim Lee, Silvestri, and Salvador Larroca.
I miss these games. Next Dimension was my favorite, except for the load times. I wouldn't mind playing another one of these built from the ground up and made for the current generation.
Great job on the video bro
I do wonder what your thoughts are on some of the X-Men RPG that came out and X-Men Destiny I guess we'll find out
Please do videos on mortal kombat 3 (& UMK3), Tekken 2, DOA2, & Soul Calibur 3. As well as videos on the Godzilla fighting games, Blazblue, SNK's World Heroes, Primal Rage, Mace The Dark Age, Sonic The Fighters, & Pokken Tournament
Please mention how Glenn Danzig was asked to play “Wolverine”in the movie.
Fun fact: David Hayter wrote the screen plays for the X-Men movies
I was actually in love with this game and it's sequel!!..
Reviewing an X-men game, known for being a Capcom's greatest hits franchise with a neo geo Kof 96 ost as background music... Great and strange video 😅
I had all the 3D X-men fighters… loved those games
I totally saw this game cover "everywhere" back when it came out but i never knew anyone that had actually played it, looking at it now i'm surprised the game\series didn't have a longer lasting run. Could you imagine if they had kept up and been able to consistently improve it? Marvel vs Capcom Infinite might not have been created essentially killing the chances of a great Marvel fighting game.
I had this in like 5th grade!!!! You could use Spider-Man on here too lol
Don’t know how I missed this one but it looks dope!
Never played MA but I did spend a lot of time on Next Dimension. Hope you do a video on that one. I liked it but I remember the loading time being ridiculous.
Cyclops and Bishop were my mains
I never really thought these were ignored. I guess cause I used to play 1 and 2 all the time
I'm tripping on how they straight ripped Cyclop's launching kick animation from Xmen Versus Street Figher lol
Yes I was looking forward to this one. 🎉
I used to hang out with these two guys from Essex who I became friends with. They got so owned by me on this game. Their reactions were bloody hilarious man.
I love the 90s comic book art style of the game. I think i might give it a go.
It looks like a decent game, I don't know why I didn't get it that time ( mainly because I was a kid with no money). I was into the the x-men back then, I even saw that 1st film in theaters.
Can someone help?
I remeber playing on my ps1 an classic 2d fighting game of X-Men
I remeber only the aquarium stage playing as cyclops against storm
Juggernaut was thrown there too
I guess it was based on X-Men evolution series tho...
Vr troopers was one of my fave’s wasn’t too into the beetle borgs.
I haven't played this game since Job corps...
God I miss this game.😊
It was hard for this particular game to gain any type of success due to how amazing X-Men vs Street Fighter and other 2D fighters that follow the same formula were! I remember being at a Pizza Hut across town and the manager had to tell us that the arcade machines were for customers that we’re waiting for their orders only. So we all scraped up enough money to purchase two pizzas 🍕 We purchased 45 minutes in between so that we always were waiting for an order😅
Another meaning were not gonna get a remaster of X-Men Mutant Academy 1 and 2 HD
like Tony Hawk 1 and 2 HD any time soon?
I mean it be nice if they did that, add all the fighters and levels from first and 2nd game and maybe some new ones,
then improve the combat and gameplay, and add in more outfits.
Have you covered the X-Men Legend and Marvel Ultimate Alliance games?
You should cover the sequels too!
X men Next Dimension seems like a really good game with the character rosters, characters looks, and moves
This game have professor x in it. Played a lot of this game and it does have some of the most technical combos if you actually look into it. The problem with this games is the same for console 3D fighting games during those times - Arcades and the growing switch to PC games like MMO's and 1st person shooters.
It's not the game's fault since it's actually good and the bar systems for the supers are now adapted to some modern fighting games or very similar to it, like MK or Injustice.
I had this and the 2nd one. Loved playing as Nightcrawler. I remember it came with a ticket to see the movie for free
Never heard of this game. Besides SF VS X-Men, I think the 1st Children of the Atom fighting game was AWESOME
This was a pretty cool game, I didn’t know that there was sequels though. I probably beat this game every way to get all of the secret characters and bonus materials within a couple of rentals as described in the video. Also, found myself getting a little too hot and bothered by Phoenix and mystique as a 13-year-old boy playing this game. 😳 LOL.
I really liked this back in the day and i still toss in the disk every once and a while
I had this one as a kid and it was a blast
I still have this game in my collection.
It’s pretty good fighting game.
This game came out after the WHOLE Marvel vs. Capcom series; it was small roster, boring combos, clunky looking character models, mainly basic fighting-game gameplay really did reduce this game down to a rental at the time. Even though the property was X-Men it didn't make you instantly feel fighting game love like Tekken 3, Tag or any of the Capcom fighters at the time. I know personally my issue back then was I was still learning how to extend my combos on MvC2 back then. I didn't really become a master at MvC2 until the 360 version came out for online play. So nah, not in my game Collection, I did not enroll to Mutant Academy.
We need a new X-Men game!
Didn't know about this game until I was introduced to emulation. I played it later and... well, to say that i'm not fan of it is not to say anything. But, before that, I played the movie based game and... oh boy, that was some frustrating experience! The only fun character to play was Nightcrawler. Everyone else sucked. Wolverine controlled like a brick on ice. Iceman is just a stupid shoot'em up level and game only shines when you get your hands on Nightcrawler. With his abilities and style of gameplay, it was fun to beat the missions. And then the missions. Most of them suck. Especially those escorting missions. Or the missions where you have to guard something or protect, until timer runs out, or until you defeat everyone. And come to think of it. When you play as Wolverine, you should be unstoppable, but on the practice, you keep failing, and not because you are bad at this game, but because the game itself is programmed badly. Or, devs simply didn't knew, how to make it enjoyable, and so they made it as is and got it out there for people to "enjoy". Anyway, I beat this game only once. But, as they say, through, fire, flames and rage. Thus why, X-Men movie game, based on old trilogy of movies, simply sucks. If only we could got something like X-Men Origins video game, back in the days, then that would be amazing for sure. But instead, we had that piece of crap. And don't get me started on later released X2: Wolverine's Revenge. Cause it is not a game, but a freaking build of unfinished something, that was not even tested.
Cant rmemeber if it was 1 or 2 i olayed but it was awesome and i had a sick set of cyclops moves that ended in like a 99 combo
I have them on steam deck through emulation great platform for these older games
I want an X-Men fighter in the Bushido Blade vein. Rouge touched you? You are dead.
If she kiss my tip. I could die happy
The tragedy is that the mid-90s SEGA console games were often developed just like this--in a terrible rush due to sudden changes in the roadmap from SoJ. As many games were canceled in those years as released, and several franchises saw no sequel at all. Compare SEGA's arcade division to their console business. Lots of game companies were rushing absolute garbage out to store shelves on impossible deadlines.
Mutant Apocalypse and Clone Wars are FREAKING CLASSICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The sequel was in a PS underground demo disc I would play all the time
Mutant Academy was MY SHIT!!! Once you adjusted to the game play system you could really have some great matches with friends.
I remember playing this it was fun for a month or two
I forgot all about this...I think I played it on a demo disk abd it was a solid game but wasn't strong enough for me to want to buy it...
Damn, didn't know this existed 😳
The biggest mistake about Mutant Academy:
Porting the game to the GBC instead of the GBA, MK4 also messed up on that opportunity.
I would love to see X-men Mutant Academy remastered, or even a third game. MVC is pretty much dead, so marvel in general could us a modern fighting game
Shame that Exodus was not in there games but there has alredy asome!
I used to play the hell out of those games on ps1
This is my first time hearing about this X-men game.
I liked mutant academy awesome slo mo and you could get the movie costume for wolverine 😅
I remember having this game it was fun
I played this game I liked but needed more characters like sentinels and few others
psyloche is my main on this game. range is trash, but combo moves satisfying
I had mutant academy 2 for my psx