Editing X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse (section)

==Plot==
When [[Apocalypse (comics)|Apocalypse]] kidnaps [[Professor X]] and [[Polaris (comics)|Polaris]], the X-Men and Brotherhood of Mutants unite to save them. [[Cyclops (comics)|Cyclops]], [[Storm (Marvel Comics)|Storm]], and [[Wolverine (comics)|Wolverine]] meet up with [[Magneto (comics)|Magneto]], [[Mystique (comics)|Mystique]], and [[Sabretooth (comics)|Sabretooth]] at a military prison outpost in Greenland to free the Professor. Upon freeing him, the teams relocate to Genosha to work through the wreckage and find out what Apocalypse wanted with the area. Finding [[Quicksilver (comics)|Quicksilver]] also kidnapped, the teams prepare to return to the X-Mansion, but Apocalypse arrives first. He plants a bomb, which more or less destroys the X-Mansion, and kidnaps [[Beast (comics)|Beast]], who manages to point the team in the direction of the [[Savage Land]].

The teams work their way through the Savage Land, freeing Beast and hindering Apocalypse's plans, and continue to fight against his forces; however, Apocalypse manages to conquer New York and seize control. The teams work at sabotaging his army and resources, but [[Emma Frost]] and [[Warren Worthington III|Angel]] are soon kidnapped as well. Angel is transformed into Archangel to act as a Horseman of Apocalypse, to defend Apocalypse's tower. When the teams infiltrate it, they find Beast, too, is working against them under the name [[Dark Beast]]; he kidnaps Sabretooth and escapes with Apocalypse and [[Mister Sinister|Mr. Sinister]] to Egypt while the teams deal with Archangel.

The teams learn that Apocalypse's plan is to use Polaris, Quicksilver, Emma Frost, and Sabretooth - four mutants with ''Harmonic DNA'' - to power an experiment to grant him massive amounts of power. The teams then follow him to Egypt to defeat him once and for all, after first defeating Sinister and Dark Beast (returning the latter to normal).  After besting the final guard, the [[Living Monolith]], the teams take on Apocalypse and defeat him by stealing the powers from his machine.  In the final cutscene, Magneto and Xavier part once again as adversaries, noting that Apocalypse was defeated but not destroyed. Beast ponders why the machine did not work properly, wondering if sabotage was a factor. As the X-Jet flies away, Sinister is seen on top of the pyramid, laughing, hinting that he sabotaged the machine.

===Characters===
Old and new characters return from ''[[X-Men Legends]]'', while new faces and characters appear during some levels. Additionally, some dailogues throughout the game can be character-to-character specific, depending on the player character's alignment and relationship with the [[non-player character|NPC]].

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! colspan="4" | '''Playable characters'''
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* [[Bishop (comics)|Bishop]]
* [[Colossus (comics)|Colossus]]
* [[Cyclops (comics)|Cyclops]]
* [[Gambit (comics)|Gambit]]
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* [[Iceman (comics)|Iceman]]
* [[Jean Grey]]
* [[Juggernaut (comics)|Juggernaut]]
* [[Magneto (comics)|Magneto]]
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* [[Nightcrawler (comics)|Nightcrawler]]
* [[Rogue (comics)|Rogue]]
* [[Scarlet Witch]]
* [[Storm (Marvel Comics)|Storm]]
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* [[Sunfire (comics)|Sunfire]]
* [[Toad (comics)|Toad]]
* [[Wolverine (comics)|Wolverine]]
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!| '''Unlockable Characters'''||'''PSP Exclusives'''||'''PC Exclusives'''||'''N-Gage Exclusive'''
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* [[Deadpool]]
* [[Iron Man]]
* [[Professor X]]
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* [[Cable (comics)|Cable]]
* [[Cannonball (comics)|Cannonball]]
* [[The Dark Phoenix Saga|Dark Phoenix]]
* [[Nate Grey|X-Man]]
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* [[Pyro (comics)|Pyro]]
* [[Sabretooth (comics)|Sabretooth]]
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* [[Beast (comics)|Beast]]
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! colspan="4" | '''Villains'''
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* [[Abyss (comics)|Abyss]]
* [[Apocalypse (comics)|Apocalypse]]
* [[Warren Worthington III|Archangel]]<sup>†</sup>
* [[Bastion (comics)|Bastion]]
* [[Beast (comics)|Beast]]<sup>†</sup>
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* [[Deadpool]]<sup>†</sup>
* [[Garokk]]
* [[Grizzly (comics)|Grizzly]]
* [[Holocaust (comics)|Holocaust]]
* [[Lady Deathstrike]]
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* [[Living Monolith]]
* [[Mikhail Rasputin]]
* [[Mister Sinister|Mr. Sinister]]
* [[Omega Red]]
* [[Sauron (comics)|Sauron]]
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* [[Sugar Man]]
* [[Stepford Cuckoos]]
* [[Stryfe]]
* [[Zealot (Marvel Comics)|Zealot]]
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! colspan="4" | '''Other Characters'''
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* [[Banshee (comics)|Banshee]]
* [[Blink (comics)|Blink]]
* [[Blob (comics)|Blob]]
* [[Dazzler]]
* [[Destiny (Irene Adler)|Destiny]]
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* [[Emma Frost]]
* [[Forge (comics)|Forge]]
* [[Guardian (Marvel Comics)|Guardian]]
* [[Havok (comics)|Havok]]
* [[Ka-Zar]]
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* [[Kitty Pryde]]
* [[Moira MacTaggert]]
* [[Ultimate Nick Fury|Nick Fury]]
* [[Polaris (comics)|Polaris]]
* [[Pyro (comics)|Pyro]]
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* [[Quicksilver (comics)|Quicksilver]]
* [[Sebastian Shaw (comics)|Sebastian Shaw]]
* [[Selene (comics)|Selene]]
* [[Shanna the She-Devil]]
* [[Vindicator (comics)|Vindicator]]
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<small><sup>†</sup>Under the control of Mr. Sinister</small>