X-Men Coming To PSN and XBLA

Those of you who were around in 1992 with a tendency to frequent one of the diminishing numbers of up-to-date arcades may have joined forces with five friends or strangers (around a single cabinet!) to give Magneto a good 2D, side-scrolling beating.

Konami’s X-Men arcade game saw you playing as one of Cyclops, Colossus, Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, and Dazzler as you fought the appropriately titled Brotherhood of Evil Mutants on your way to freeing Professor X and Kitty Pryde from the aforementioned manipulator of electro-magnetic force.

A Marvel panel at Comic-Con in New York this weekend has revealed that Konami are bring an arcade-faithful (read, they had no art budget) version of the game to both PSN and XBLA at an unspecified, though probably not-too-distant, time in the future.

The six-player-ness of the arcade original will be maintained through drop-in online multiplayer.  There was no mention of whether local multiplayer would be supported, so we can only hope that it will support a mix of online and local play such as the likes of Warhawk, Resistance and LittleBigPlanet.

You will be able to “change your difficulty for the ultimate challenge”.  Personally I hope you will be able to “reduce your difficulty ‘coz you’re hopeless” too.  Custom match-ups will also feature allowing you to repeatedly beat your most-hated featured super-villain into the ground in arena-based combat.

Hit up the source link for the trailer from the panel.

Source: Kotaku, characters image from Joystiq