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All I can say is WOW.
When I first heard about this game coming out, I was almost in awe. over 140 characters from the Marvel Universe coming together. It sounded like something that could only happen in the comic books. Then the game came out and after buying it, I was hooked.
One thing I've always enjoyed about MARVEL are the characters. In the game, not only do you get to play well known heroes like Spiderman and Wolverine, who have all been featured in games in the past, but then there are heroes like Dr. Strange, the Black Panther, Thor, and Luke Cage who have never even appeared in a platform video game before. Another thing I'v always liked about MARVEL, are the interactions between heroes and villians they normally wouldn't face. Here it's pretty much every hero taking on all sorts of villians they nomrally wouldn't fight...except for Doctor Doom...everyone has fought him.
The game play is excellent, but probably my favorite feature is creating your dream team of heroes. I've only begun to stratch the surface of Ultimate Alliance, but I'll say that I will definetly be playing it for a good while.
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Coming on the heels of JUSTICE LEAGUE HEROES, MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE serves up a cornucopia of thrills, action and adventure set in the Marvel Universe. Boasting heroes like Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, the Fantastic Four, Ms. Marvel, Iceman, Wolverine, the game unveils Dr. Doom's latest plot. After creating a new Masters of Evil, Doom sets the wheels in motion to strip the father of the Norse gods -- Odin -- of his powers. Nick Fury, Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., has learned of the plot almost too late. Fury gathers the heroes, and the game is on!
The game was developed by Ravensoft and released through Activision. Ravensoft also developed both the X-MEN LEGENDS game and this platform appears to be a build off of that. They also recently finished up id's QUAKE 4. They've also developed 3 Star Wars games and the Hexen franchise. Activision is one of the industry's leaders.
MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE is an absolute delight to play. The gameplay is smooth and the levels progress at a nice clip with plenty of eyecandy all around. The individual heroes were programmed with plenty of unique powers that look and feel very much like their comic book counterparts. Filled with smooth-looking cut scenes, plenty of dialogue, and interactive Q&A sessions, MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE feels like a movie as it plays out. Each segment and session moves into the next with plenty of story sense. As an added bonus, you can switch teams and players around at different points throughout the levels.
The comic-based mini-missions add to the spice of the game, allowing mini-breathers throughout (that also come with an expiration limit!) and mixing in opportunities to win a lot of bonuses that include extra hero skins. Also, each level comes with extra tasks that affect the outcome of the gaming experience.
MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE allows 1-4 players, and also allows for players to drop in and drop out without having to restart a game. This makes for a parent-friendly game (unless you have to see the whole game yourself from start to finish!). Kids can play this one by themselves without needing help to get through the main storylines, but they may require some for the bonus missions.
If you have a kid in the house who loves games and superheroes, this is a great one to put under the tree for Christmas.
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140 CHARACTERS CRAMMED INTO ONE VIDEO GAME?I THOUGHT IT IMPOSSIBLE BUT IT CAME TRUE....THIS GAME HAS EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER FROM THE MARVEL UNIVERSE,EVERYONE INCLUDING:SHOCKER,SILVER SURFER,STORM,SPIDER-MAN,ELEKTRA,IRON MAN,NIGHTCRAWLER,WOLVERINE,DR.DOOM,CAPTAIN AMERICA,HUMAN TORCH AND MORE!THIS GAME IS BY FAR THE BEST MARVEL GAME.I THOUGHT MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 2 WAS BUT THE ONLY PROBLEM WITH THIS GAME IS IF YOU WANT TO GET IT IN PERSON YOU MUST RESERVE IT OR THEY WILL NOT GIVE IT TO YOU.(HERE ARE SOME OF THE CHARACTER'S ABILLITIES)TRON MAN:Rocket Uppercut - Massive melee punch that sends enemies flying,
Uni-Beam - Rapidly fire off a stream of lasers,Nano Assault - Radial energy shockwave, with smaller secondary shockwaves.THEN THERE IS CAPTAIN AMERICA:Shield Throw - Throws the shield as a projectile. Hold the button and guide the path of the shield as it hits multiple enemies,Energy Shield - Spins around, cutting through enemies and objects within range with an energized shield.STORM:Hail Storm - Attach a hail storm to an enemy, which inflicts damage to other nearby enemies,Whirlwind - Creates a powerful wind vortex, lifting and throwing objects and enemies about,Chain Lightning - Lightning shoots from her hands, chaining from enemy to enemy.SPIDER-MAN:Web Snare - Tethers enemies in webbing
Web Bullets - Shoots projectiles of impact bullets. Rapidly tapping the attack will cause a faster, more damaging barrage.
Web Throw - Grabs enemiLethal Lunge - Launches forward knocking back enemies where he lands and brutally slashing his target. A successful attack generates rage. WOLVERINE:
Certain Death (Rage Attack) - Impale the enemy on Wolverine's claws, lift them up, and throw them down. High chance of instant kill.
es and swings him around, doing damage to enemies nearby.ALL IN ALL IT IS A FUN GAME GET IT!
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First off, I'm no hardcore gamer. Like the title says, I just happened to be browsing some gaming magazine when the ad got me. Being a big fan of the comics, I decided to give it a try. I mean, come on, who wouldn't want to be able to pair up Spidey with Iceman and The Human Torch and whoever catches your fancy? And the game delivers a lot of punch in many ways.
GAMEPLAY: Campaign mode is pretty straightforward. You can walk through the entire thing and it makes for a lot of gametime. It is kind of reminiscient of the Ninja Turtle series from back in the 90's where you pretty much follow a straight map (except in this case, there are some side rooms that you can explore in each level), kill some enemies, get to a minor boss, kill more enemies, then get to the final boss. Obviously, you have to expect the occasional roadblock - 'What am I going to do to get past this flaming doorblock?' situations where simple puzzles can come in play, but overall, getting through levels is a sort of linear kind of thing. The whole game probably takes about 15-20hrs to beat on normal. But then you won't necessarily unlock all the superheroes, so I guess that's what keeps you going. You unlock hard mode after beating normal once. GRADE: A
THE RPG ELEMENT: Activision markets this as an action/rpg game, and while there is lots of action (as I mentioned, the Ninja Turtle game flashback it brought me), there are elements of RPG. Whenever you pick up 'money' on the map and level up, you can spend points leveling up character skills and abilities. The items you equip your characters with will also matter in the same way. The system is rather straightforward and being my first game from the 'series' (apparently this is the successor to some XMen Legends game?), it did not take me long to learn about where this element kicks in. GRADE: A
THE CO-OP ELEMENT: Co-op is awesome and I definitely prefer that to playing alone. You can team up with 1-3 of your friends for some 2-4 player co-op. While camera views can be annoying at times, you can easily tell that the programmers put a lot of time into making co-op gameplay here really smooth. One weird thing about this though, at some points you unlock the game's idea of secret levels (by picking up random comic books that appear on levels), which involve one main character (which one player plays) and enemies which are, surprise surprise, not controlled by the AI if you've been playing co-op. Kind of eliminates that whole challenge feel to it if you look at it in one way. GRADE: A+
GRAPHICS: Almost comical. Not as in funny comical, but as in like the comic books. Obviously, this being a PS2, I shouldn't expect next-gen graphics. And I didn't. Heck, the cinematics looked awesome. But for the most part, gameplay graphics were pretty tight. Not realistic nor stellar like in Shadow of the Colossus, but smooth enough such that any gamer won't complain too much about the game not taking advantage of the PS2's potential as far as graphics go. I found some of the animations rather sorry, like the lime green-ness, almost-to-the-state-of-previous-gen-ness of the Fin Fang Foom, but other than that, I really don't have much complaints. GRADE: B+
STORY: Any game that can capture the essence of every superhero's personality while at the same time painting this captivating story as it unravels gets my props. Although sometimes, in the middle of a mission, the small things that go wrong that you and your group must fix up, these things can make you lose sight of the big picture. GRADE: B+
COMPLAINTS:
- Dialogue is kind of key in this game for the most part. At times dialogue pops up in the worst time (immediately after a fight) such that I found me or one of my friends mistakenly hitting the 'continue' button (X) right through the dialogue as if the fight was still going on (X = the attack button).
- Reviving characters: So in battle, if one of your group gets KO'ed, there's a resting period. When the resting period is over, a message pops up saying that the character of interest is fully rested, but instead of letting him/her pop out just as if to rejoin the group, you always have to get to some save point to activate that character again.
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Once again, being not that hardcore of a gamer, I can't really say much in the way of in-depth game reviews. But here's the bottom line:
- This game is definitely one to be played co-op. My brother and I grew up playing these types of games and having hours and hours of fun together with these (heh... Ninja Turtles).
- Don't get this if you're looking for straight RPG. True, there is an RPG element, but not as much in the way of world-exploration and stuff that have surrounded some of the world's best RPGs.
- This game is mission-based, with different levels separated into 5 acts that will load from your home base. Think Splinter Cell or soldier FPS games where you have one level, side missions that pop up when things screw up, and then an overall mission goal that must be beaten for you to return to home base.
- Nevertheless, it is loads of fun and I definitely think paying the $40 for it on release day was worth every cent.
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