Robert Workman (Modojo): With X-Men: Days of Future Past doing impressive numbers at the box office, GlitchSoft opted to pay tribute to the original comic book that inspired it with Uncanny X-Men: Days of Future Past, now available for mobile. This game goes back to the good old days of hack-and-slash action, as Wolverine and other X-Men characters take on a powerful army, led by the devastating Sentinels.
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The world of X-Men is an excellent backdrop for storytelling, especially in games. It has a huge array of memorable heroes and villains, a winning combination of political strife and giant purple robots. But short of a few Marvel crossover games, the X-Men have been fairly quiet in the gaming world since the X-Men Legends series. This new Android platformer at least fulfills the promise of playing as a wide range of characters, but it seems to be a bit lacking on the gameplay front.
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