Title: X-Men: Mind Games Released: Unreleased Genre: Action/Platformer Developer: Sega  Publisher: None Complete: 70%

Also known as X-Men: Mojo World. Also known simply as X-Men. The title screen of the prototype game only has the X-Men title listed, but the title screen, like the game itself, appears to be unfinished.

Prototypes for unreleased games, by their very nature, can be difficult to review. Indeed, how does one go about judging a game that was never finished? Prototype "alphas" for released games are different... we have the finished product to look at, making the unfinished version a "work in progress" as well as a collectible curiosity. Unreleased games have to be judged by a different set of criteria. How far along was the game in the developmental process? Is the game playable? How are the graphics, sound, and collision detection? Is the storyline in place? Based on what's been finsihed, can you make an educated guess as to how the finished product would have looked and played?

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X-Men: Mind Games was one of the more intriging announced games for the 32x and was a highly anticipated release. Previous X-Men games for the Genesis and Super Nintendo had been top sellers, and retailers were looking forward to another sucessful installment of the comic book based franchise.
 
 

We suspect that much of the original source code for X-Men eventually ended up in The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga, released in 1996 for the Saturn and the Playstation. Both games share the Marvel Comics liscense, as well as the the same graphical style with a fixed frontal perspective. Additionally, both games feature the same grid-style enviroments and use the same programming technique to "hide" graphical pop-up. In all honesty, The Incredible Hulk is a terrible game that fails to utilize the abilities of either the Saturn or the PSX. If X-Men truly is the basis for Hulk (and we believe that it is), it's doubtful than X-Men would have made a very good game, regardless of the fact that the 32x hardware really can't be held to the same standards as the Saturn and PSX.