Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Look nerds, you know you want this so you better get your pre-order in today or tomorrow (Friday May 1st).
Oh, what was that? You aren’t sold on just the NAME X-Men Origins? You want to hear the feature list? Okay, I guess, but you realize you aren’t nearly as big a fan as you claim to be. Psssh.
Check it:
First, you have a Custom Combat Arena where you can select any enemies from the game and just go kill-crazy all over them. Second, you have an escalating challenge room. The gamemakers don’t like when I call it the Escalating Challenge Room because the official title is the Ladder Challenge Room. The idea is that each time a red button gets pushed, the enemies that beam into the room are harder than the last set of enemies, laddering up the challenge for Wolverine (that’s you!). I, however, like to think of it less of a process in which the enemies are laddering up, but moreso are taking a casual, leisurely ride up an escalator consuming far less energy so that they can unleash it all on your punk ass. And finally, there’s the Dismemberment Room. I have no problem with this naming scheme as it’s pretty accurate. You pick the limbs or body parts you want dismembered on a holographic soldier, and wam bam, smash, rip, tear, slice, etc. they get destroyed in an awesome goreshow.
Gamestop is probably full of all the other people that read the title of this article by now so now that you heard about your precious ‘features’ you had better go stand in line. I guess you could pre-order X-men Origins online as well, but only if you are cool enough (i.e. call it the Escalating Challenge Room).
Finally, the most popular game of the 80s, and my personal favorite of all time, has arrived for Paystation and CashBox. Your game is over and you must insert a coin. My personal best score was $487.75.
