X-Men: Destiny (2011) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

X-Men: Destiny

X-Men: Destiny is an action role-playing video game based on the X-Men comic book series. It was developed by Silicon Knights. Written by Mike Carey, the writer of the X-Men: Legacy comic book series, it was…

55 27 September 2011

What X-Men: Destiny is

X-Men: Destiny is an adventure game developed by Silicon Knights and released in 2011. It was published by Activision. It is available on Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360. It runs on Unreal Engine 3.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In a San Francisco divided into separate human and mutant districts by rising conflict, the story begins at a peace rally held in memory of the recently deceased Professor X. The player takes on the role of one of three brand-new mutants, Aimi Yoshida, Adrian Luca, or Grant Alexander, whose latent powers suddenly awaken when the rally is attacked by the Purifiers, an anti-mutant extremist group that has begun abducting mutants rather than killing them. Forced to fight back and protect the civilians caught in the chaos, the young mutant soon crosses paths with both the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants. As the crisis deepens, the choices the player makes will determine which side they…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Marvel series

X-Men: Destiny is the 221st of 404 entries we hold in the Marvel series. The next entry was Spider-Man: Edge of Time in 2011. Its critic score of 55 is 9 points below the series average of 64. The highest-rated entry is Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes at 90.

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How it was received

X-Men: Destiny holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 13 points below the year average.

What it launched against

X-Men: Destiny launched on 27 September 2011, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, Shadow of the Colossus (2011) and Gears of War 3. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, Shadow of the Colossus (2011), Gears of War 3.

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