X-Men: Gamesmaster's Legacy

X-Men: Gamesmaster's Legacy
Single-player

X-Men: Gamesmaster's Legacy is an

Game Gear game.

The following year, Sega released a follow-up, X-Men: Mojo World.

Plot

The Legacy Virus is annihilating mutantkind and the

is holding the key. He offers the X-Men a chance to play his game and win the secret, but he also offers the same to their arch-enemies with the added satisfaction of destroying the X-Men. The X-Men must split up to find the cure or perish forever.

Gameplay

The game is split up into two parts, with five stages in the first part where players rescue the missing gears, and three stages in the second part. The bosses include

.

The character lineup for the game includes

Cable

(who is hidden in one of the Egyptian Base levels).

Reception

Electronic Gaming Monthly deemed the game "a good sequel", praising the graphics, controls, and the increasing selection of X-Men as the game progresses. They gave it a 6.4 out of 10.^[2] GamePro particularly noted how the game was an improvement over the earlier Game Gear title Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge, removing the frustrations of that game while featuring greatly improved graphics.^[3]

References