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{{Infobox video game
| title = X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse
| image = QuakeXmenRavages.jpg
| caption = Cover art
| developer = Zero Gravity Entertainment
| publisher = WizardWorks, [[Company:MacSoft|MacSoft]]
| composer = Method of the W.O.R.M
| engine = [[Software:Quake engine|''Quake'' engine]]
| platforms = [[Engineering:DOS|DOS]], [[Software:Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Software:Linux|Linux]], [[Engineering:Macintosh|Macintosh]]
| released = {{Video game release|NA|{{Start date|1997|12|5}}}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bluesnews.com/archives/nov97-5.html |title=blue's Quake Rag – Nov. 29-Dec. 5, 1997 News |date=December 1997 |website=Blue's News |access-date=October 11, 2019}}<br />'''Friday, December 5, 1997 – X-Men TC Hits Shelves''': "X-Men Ravages of the Apocalypse, the TC that mutates Quake into a battle against the X-Men, has started appearing in stores."</ref>
| genre = [[Software:First-person shooter|First-person shooter]]
| modes = [[Software:Single-player video game|Single-player]], [[Software:Multiplayer video game|multiplayer]]
}}

'''''X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse''''' is a [[Software:First-person shooter|first-person shooter]] video game developed by Zero Gravity Entertainment and released for PC in 1997. The game was built with the [[Software:Quake engine|''Quake'' engine]] and requires the original version of ''[[Software:Quake (video game)|Quake]]'' to be played.{{efn|However, the game mod can be played with a [[GPL]] Quake Content such as Open Quartz, that fills the gaps between the [[Source port|source port]] and game mod files that ''X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse'' needs to be played.}} As the result, the game acts as an [[Software:Expansion pack|expansion]] of ''Quake''.

==Gameplay==
''The Ravages of Apocalypse'' features fourteen levels, replaces the original ''Quake'' weapons with new designs, and all of the enemies in the game have been replaced with cyborg [[Biology:Cloning|clones]] of popular X-Men characters, each with their own super powers; for example, Wolverine has his healing factor, Archangel is immune to rockets, etc. ''X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse'' was one of the first total conversions to feature a high-profile property.

==Release==
''X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse'' was released as [[Freeware|freeware]] in July 2006.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://liberatedgames.com/game.php?game_id=101 |title=Game Name: X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse |date=June 20, 2015 |access-date=May 9, 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150718154758/http://liberatedgames.com/game.php?game_id=101 |archive-date=July 18, 2015 }}</ref> The game's [[Source code|source code]] was also released, but under an ambiguous [[Software license|license]]. Modifications have been made to the game to allow it to run as a standalone title. The freeware release includes a walkthrough of the game's levels, as well as a patch which adds new gameplay features and fixes glitches from the original version.

==Reception==
{{Video game reviews
| CGSP = {{rating|2.5|5}}<ref name=cgsp>{{cite web | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050419054308/http://www.cdmag.com/articles/010/092/xmen_review.html | url=http://www.cdmag.com/articles/010/092/xmen_review.html | title=''X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse'' | author=Stratton, Geoff | date=February 19, 1998 | work=Computer Games Strategy Plus | archive-date=April 19, 2005 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
| CGW = {{rating|2.5|5}}<ref name=cgw>{{cite magazine | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980416054216/http://cgw.gamespot.com/review/3472.html | url=http://cgw.gamespot.com/review/3472.html | title=UnXceptional | author=Cirulis, Martin E. | magazine=Computer Gaming World | archive-date=April 16, 1998 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
 | Allgame = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=11762&tab=review |title=X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse (PC) - Review |first=Brett |last=Berliner |website=[[Software:AllGame|AllGame]] | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141212111138/http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=11762&tab=review | archive-date=December 12, 2014 | url-status=dead | access-date=October 30, 2016}}</ref>
 | GSpot = 4.9/10<ref name=GS>{{cite web | url=http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/x-men-the-ravages-of-apocalypse-review/1900-2531968/ |title=X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse Review |first=Jeffrey |last=Swearingen |date=January 15, 1998 |website=GameSpot |access-date=October 30, 2016}}</ref>
}}

''X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse'' was met with overwhelmingly negative reviews.<ref>[https://www.cbr.com/xmen-quake-mod-ravages-of-apocalypse-trivia/ X-Men Ravages Of Apocalypse: 7 Things You Never Knew About The Unusual Quake Mod] - CBR.com</ref> Geoff Stratton of ''Computer Games Strategy Plus'' called it "an uneven product whose generally unoriginal gameplay isn't consistent with its superhero mythmaking or humorously overwrought comic-book repartee."<ref name=cgsp /> In ''Computer Gaming World'', Martin E. Cirulis concurred: "there just isn't enough here to justify calling this a 'superhero game'." He elaborated that while the X-Men are given strong, interesting interpretations in the ''Quake'' engine, the player character is dull and the overall game lacks the feel of an X-Men license.<ref name=cgw /> ''GamePro'' railed against the plain, boring level designs, lack of personality in the X-Men clones, uninspired weapons, and the fact that the X-Men themselves are only playable in multiplayer mode. They gave it a 2.5 out of 5 in both graphics and funfactor, a 3.0 in sound, and a 3.5 in control, and suggested gamers "just stick with regular ''Quake''."<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Boba Fatt |title=PC GamePro Review: X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse|magazine=GamePro |issue=112 |publisher=IDG |date=January 1998|page=65}}</ref> ''GameSpot'' criticized the choppy animation and found the game unreasonably difficult, primarily due to the clumsy and underpowered weapons, which are difficult to use, have frustrating pauses in between bursts of fire, and require numerous dead-on hits to kill a single opponent. The reviewer concluded that players wanting a ''Quake'' expansion would be better off getting ''Scourge of Armagon'' or ''Dissolution of Eternity''.<ref name=GS/>

==See also==
*List of video games derived from mods

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.zerogravity.com.au/portfolio0601.php X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse] (Zero Gravity Entertainment)
*{{MobyGames|id=/x-men-the-ravages-of-apocalypse}}


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