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■dnesday, September27,ai Vednesday, September 27, 2000 AGGIELIFE Page5 THE BATTALION Tony Hawk’s Proskater 2 System: Playstation Genre: Action Developer: Neversoft The first Tony Hawk skating game defined the genre if extreme games, and its sequel lives up to the hype. With excellent graphics, a fun soundtrack and addic- ve game play, this game should go down in the annals f computer game lore. Unlike most sequels, this game improves upon its piv- f*' *4flSefSm% decessor the levels are bigger and there are more characters and more tricks. The producers have included an in teresting feature that allows players to de sign their own skate park. This ^ factor, when Kyle Field before ’he flags are hoisted by members of the en Aggies begin to t will be flying five trees surround , with a memorial Itt he side of the MSC iter love hath no mi vn his life for his it tied to excellence e of attending A&M ken truth is formed, ehere and no matter • meet — if Aggie y have been friends le on this, but one 1 am not making inning an opinion ts or the hundreds of Tore us — 1 am sin- gies are we ... true com bined w ith the improved game- play, makes the game nearly im possible to put down. Luckily, the controller scheme for the first Tony Hawk game is re tained, ensuring that ■''//■/ re P eat P' a >' ers can V move * n without r j'.y' //Ml uussing a beat. The only flaw in this game is the an noying breaks be tween sequences. Anyone who has ever played a Playstation game has encountered this problem, and it is just as irritating here due to a few unnecessary screens. Overall, though, it is an excellent game, easily worth the money. (Grade: B+) — Jason Bennyhoff X-Men: Mutant Academy System: Playstation Genre: Fighting . Developer: Paradox Development Hot off the tail of a hit summer movie comes X- Men: Mutant Academy from fighting-game genre new comer Paradox Development. While the game develop er is new, the rules for a good fighting game have been set in stone since the days of Street Fighter 2, and Mu tant Academy sticks to the recipe well. The game’s graphics are great, featuring 3-D ver sions of everyone’s favorite X-Men, such as Wolverine, Cyclops, Gambit and Storm. However, players should not be fooled by the 3-D appearance — „ the fighting is basically in 2-D for- v mat. The 3-D aspects of the game are well saved for per- ^ forming the thoroughly im pressive array of throws avail able with each character. The game play is standard, but does feature an obscene amount of su per moves, most of which require players to have mu tant abilities of their own in order to master the game’s. Another drawback can be seen in extremely long nor mal life meters and pesky mutant hea'ing factor the characters possess. This all leads to extremely long and drawn-out games that go nowhere quick. Mutant Academy does a good job of staying true to its comic book roots with character’s costumes and powers, while still indulging X-Men movie fans with the patented black leather costumes as variants. Players can also use bad guy favorites Magneto, Sabretooth, Mystique’ and Toad after beating the game with various characters. X-Men: Mutant Academy is not the greatest fighting game on the market, but it definitely has its entertain ing features. Any true fan of the comic book should check this game out (even if only to see Hugh Jackman get the stuffing beat out of him by the “real” Wolver ine). (Grade: B+) ■ i I THIS IS YOUR MISSION IFYOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT SAY CHEESE. 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