✓ Both are third-person Action RPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and melee combat
≠ Its own twist: adventure storytelling, deep simulation and dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping fantasy world
You play the shark. Eat fish, wildlife and swimmers to evolve, upgrade your bite and hunt the hunters back, all narrated as a straight-faced wildlife documentary. The B-movie tone is the appeal and it commits to it. The recurring complaint is technical rather than creative: crashes, stutter and startup failures on modern Windows come up constantly, even from players who finished it.
Where it drifts furthest from X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse: game mode.
Released 15 years after X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse.