X-Men 2: Clone Wars - Characters

Characters

• Beast - Beast is somewhat slow and has a poor special attack, but makes up for it with limited acrobatic skills (including clinging to walls and a powerful diving attack), and a normal attack that is about twice as strong as other characters'.
• Cyclops - Cyclops' optic blast can be charged to become stronger and can harm multiple enemies at once. In addition, he can use a small array of martial arts tricks (such as combo punches and flying kicks) in melee.
• Gambit - Gambit's mutant power is a fast ranged attack that can be charged to both do more damage and fire multiple cards at once. His melee attack options are similar to Cyclops', but have superior reach (his floor-sweeping attack also seems to do exceptional damage in certain situations).
• Nightcrawler - Nightcrawler's mutant power, an explosive teleportation that can be charged for greater range and damage, is of limited use, but his acrobatic and movement skills, including wall-crawling, double-jumping and diving attacks, are the best in the game.
• Psylocke - Psylocke's psychic knife attack only works against organic enemies and leaves her briefly vulnerable while performing it, but is armed with a sword for use against all enemies. She can also cling to walls, double jump, perform a unique flying lunge with her psychic knife and a useful 360° attack with her sword.
• Wolverine - Wolverine's "mutant power attack" is an unexeptional lunge with his claws, but his true mutant power is his unique regeneration ability: When Wolverine has either one or two bars of health remaining, he automatically (after a certain amount if time) heals and regains a bar of health until he has a total of three bars of health. After a significantly longer period, he can heal from three bars of health to a fourth bar. He can also scale walls by using his claws as pitons (which makes his movement while doing so more rigid than Nightcrawler's).
• Magneto (unlockable after the third level) - Magneto is unique in having no melee attacks - his 'basic' attack consists of a limitless barrage of (somewhat weak) energy blasts and his "mutant power attack" is an explosive electromagnetic orb which, while slow to move and execute, can transverse walls. He cannot fly while a player character, but can hover stationary in mid-air, during which time he can rain energy bolts but not his exploding orb. Between these powers, a cunning Magneto player can eliminate certain foes (including one of the bosses) with impunity.