Marvel Ultimate Alliance
by Activision Inc.
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Video Game Reviews of Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Customer Review: Very Good!!
Summary: 4 Stars
It's a great game, allowing 4 players at once, the graphics are acceptable, as well as the difficulty of the game. It's great for fans of Marvel.Customer Review: Game lacks dimension and breaks fundamental gaming rules
Summary: 2 Stars
Ultimately when asked I would recommend my friends spend their gaming dollars some where else. As for me, I already spent them so I will have to milk every ounce of fun out of the game.
The game breaks a fundamental rule of games. Never let the random number generator determine the player's success in the game.
You have health and you have energy. Enemies attacking take away health, and using advanced abilities takes away energy. Both come back negligibly over time. The true source of health and energy regen comes from killing enemies, and destructible terrain. However whether you get health, energy, or cash is determined by the random generator.
The way this typically goes is you get punked loose most of your health drop several enemies, destroy some terrain and get lots of cash. You are in no way in control of regenerating your health. Then some ambient damage takes you down. In the end it didn't matter if you used your advanced abilities or not, your decisions to maneuver the battle field are pointless.
In the end the random number generator that punked you in the first place just decided you should die and you had no say in the matter.
That is not to say the game is not easy. There seems to be two levels of play within a given difficulty setting. One you take damage from everything and are in constant need of some health. Pray to the random number generator Gods. Two your character is so advanced that he takes no damage. The random number is silenced.
So you are either killing the everything with ease, or at the mercy of the random generator.
Where is the fun in that?
The development of your characters is also linear. It has one direction up. Your character has access to some 8 abilities. The first point is fixed and the rest can be added to the ability and removed later. So it is almost as if the developers are explicitly saying you enhance your character but you do not specialize him. The abilities themselves are diverse, but usually special use. Given the fact you can only choose between three abilities. Generally you are going to choose a buff a short range attack and a charge or ranged attack. Beyond that you may swap out the abilities for bosses. Given those options you usually only have one choice for your given scenario. The choice is not always good.
For example Blade has a Katana slash. You'll want to have one of his ranged abilities so you'll use the Katana Slash as your main attack. But the problem is that is is a charge attack short range but the range is like a donut. It has a hole in the middle. You do not hit the thing directly in front of you. Your character takes a step before he releases the attack. Since the enemy typically moves towards you you'll want to charge before he is in range so that you are charged when he is in range. If that only made of a slow paced game that would be okay. But typically one of two things happens. The enemy moves faster then you expected and punches you in the face while you slice and dice the air behind him. That or the enemy decides not to move towards you. There you are stuck holding a charge attack not moving looking like a moron.
If you own it, build up a bit and the game is like an interactive video no challenge all eye candy. Do not build up and test your tolerance with fickle fate. Do not expect character development to entertain you it doesn't.
Customer Review: Pretty Fun
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great game for Marvel and non-Marvel fans alike. It has great beat-em up action, and some really nice RPG elements, but can get a bit repetitive/boring at times.Customer Review: Review: XBox 360: Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Summary: 5 Stars
Awesome game, great for any Marvel fan!
Great gameplay, great selection of characters and powers, and a cool plot.
Customer Review: Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Summary: 5 Stars
I recommend this game for every gamer out there, this game is great... whether your playing solo or w/ a bunch of friends this game will entertain!!!