The X-Men games that are actually good

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It’s a good time to be an X-Men fan. The stellar first season of X-Men ‘97just wrapped up, Insomniac Games is working on a Wolverine game for PlayStation 5, and the mutants are (someday) coming to the MCU.

But it’s been a while since there have been good options for X-Men fans who want to game in that universe. Gone are the days of multiple X-Men arcade games and fighting games to choose from, or movie tie-ins. There have been a lot of disappointing X-Men games (looking at you, X-Men: Destiny), but what about the good ones?

The Polygon staff has collected the X-Men games that are actually good, from the dawn of the mutant age gaming to even a few recent releases that revive X-Men gaming. Most are not available to play anymore, but they live on in our hearts nonetheless.

Ideally, you’ll be playing X-Men on an original arcade cabinet alongside three strangers, the four of you thrown together into a makeshift family as you step into the shoes of Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, Colossus, Nightcrawler or Dazzler. It won’t take long to beat — maybe 30-45 minutes, like a great episode of television — and you’ll walk away victorious, having destroyed Sentinels and other classic baddies until you reach Magneto, who has kidnapped Xavier for some reason (although if you’ve seen X-Men ‘97, you might be able to imagine some good reasons).

This game is an all-time classic for a reason; each character has different special abilities, just like the characters they’re based on, and as simplistic as the beat-em-up mechanics may be, it’s still one of the most accurate and fun adaptations that the X-Men have ever had across video games. Oddly enough, this version of the team was actually based on the failed 1989 cartoon X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men that got one pilot episode and no more, but the X-Men have such distinctive visual designs that this part never really mattered. —Maddy Myers

This may shock you, but there are few better-looking Genesis games than X-Men 2: Clone Wars. It is