High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! X-Men: Next Dimension is a fighting game, released in 2002 for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, and GameCube video game consoles. It is the third game in the X-Men: Mutant Academy fighting game series, following X-Men: Mutant Academy and X-Men: Mutant Academy 2. Next Dimension expands upon the concept of the first two games by adding several new characters, 3-D maps, and the option to play "Story Mode", which allows the player to fight a series of battles in between short movies that move the plot along.