X-Men: Destiny Dev Diaries Feature Powers and Choices

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Richard Walker

In X-Men: Destiny you'll choose your rookie mutant, then make subsequent choices to shape their powers and abilities, whether that's by utilising X-Genes based upon the powers of other mutants, or by customising powers by manipulating X-Genes.

These two new developer diaries shed some light on the choices you'll be able to make in X-Men: Destiny, as well as some of the X-Genes you'll be able to use. You could decide to change your attacks, increase you mutant's health, mobility or strength, or perhaps you'd like to ape Iceman, and slide around on ice slides, freezing enemies. The choice is yours.

Check out both new developer videos that go behind the scenes at Silicon Knights, then look out for X-Men: Destiny on September 27th in North America and September 30th in Europe.


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  • Nightcrawler kinda looks slightly like a hobo lol, can't wait to start making my x-man/brotherhood.
  • Pass. If I want to be like the characters, I'd rather BE the characters. Authenticity = Primo. This is like the Ghostbusters Sanctum of Slime.
  • @2 Actually it is more like City of Heroes/City of Villains or DCUO without the MMO part. Personally I would rather be able to use my imagination and create my own.
  • @ 3 - That's my point. There's very little originality when it comes to superheroes/powers. I mean, just about every power imaginable has been used, reused and re-imagined since the 30's. Not to mention, majority of people that played COH/V tried to make Marvel/DC emulations. It's a cheap ploy in my eyes but I'm not saying it won't be good/fun. I just prefer authenticity when the namesake is involved.
  • Just a few more days. Surprised to see Surge in a game. Unfortunately not surprised to see Gambit portrayed as a villain.
  • @4 To be honest, based on my experience when I played is that I always just figured that the Marvel/DC clones in those games was because of a lack of imagination on the part of the players and an attempt to do what they are basically told not to anyways which is copy copyrighted characters But I agree, pretty much every conceivable power has been used in the comics already. Hopefully they release a demo at some point for it, otherwise it is a definite pass for me.
  • Never saw anything about this game until now except the title. I'm intrigued but, the game's releasing at a bad time. So many other bigger name titles coming out that people are paying for, they may not pay much attention to this one. I feel bad for the devs. It looked like they worked hard and this may not sell that well for the reasons I mentioned.
  • @ 6 - Didn't one of them wind up getting sued by Marvel for likeness rights? I remember reading about that before CoV even came out. It's true though since Marvel and DC dominate the comic-hero market with Dark Horse and the likes close behind. I wanted to try CoH bad and Champions Online too but CO wind up getting canned for Xbox and stuck to PC. I'm just also not big of a PC gamer anymore.
  • @8 Yeah actually they did, I had forgotten about that, it was CoH and I think it happened right around the retail release or else still during beta. I agree completely, I used to primarily game on the PC but got tired of patches screwing things up for half the players, not that console games fare much better sometimes. But at least you know a 360 game will run on the 360 versus hoping the PC game runs on your PC even though you surpass the requirements.
  • I want this game....BADLY!!
  • only game I'll be buying between now and MGS HD collection
  • @The CoH vs. Marvel lawsuit - it was mostly characters created by Marvel employees that were in breach, so the case was settled out of court. Also, I very rarely see Marvel/DC/etc. character tributes/rip-offs in CoH so no, the majority of players do not do that at all. As far as the game goes, I'm sure I'll pick it up eventually.
  • Already preorder this game and get more achievements on it into my gamerscores :D
  • I wish more people were as excited about this game as I am. I love the X-Men universe, I love RPG's, I love customization, and I heard that Silicon Knights are actually good developers if you turn a blind eye to Too Human. So this has a lot riding on it, as far as my own expectations go.
  • I hope there is a lot of customizing in appearance. Its pretty obvious they put more effort in the girl main character model. The two other guys look bland and generic.
  • I smell another SK letdown.
  • @4 Not sure if you played either of those games, the majority of people didn't make clones of existing characters. Sure, there were the clones, especially early on, but they were less than 1 out of 10 as opposed to original characters. On topic; I like the idea behind this game, but Too Human still fresh in memory, I'm not sure if the game will be good or not. Here's hoping that it will be good.
  • hmm I wonder how this will turn out I probably will read the reviews before I play this
  • I agree with anyone who thinks that the female character looks great, but the two male characters both look entirely too generic.
  • I was an am so disappointed by this game.
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