Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Reviews
One of the best games of the year.
- Posted Dec 11, 2006 6:07 pm PT
- Recommended by 1 of 1 user.
- Gameplay
- 7
- Graphics
- 9
- Sound
- 7
- Value
- 8
- Tilt
- 10
- Difficulty:
- Just Right
- Learning Curve:
- 0 to 30 Minutes
- Time Spent:
- 40 to 100 Hours
- The Bottom Line:
- "All it's cracked up to be"
:Best Idea:
· Bringing all of these superstars in one game is a great concept. Surprisingly, the story works with them together.
:Worst Idea:
· Lack of a few really cool Marvel heroes that you would think would be in there. I'm more talking about Gambit, who is one of the coolest X-Man ever.
:Achievement Difficulty: · Overall, they're not too difficult. If you dedicate a little time to the game, they're all pretty much obtainable. Some of them are time consuming, but that's why they are achievements. They're hard to get.
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What an awesome concept. Take all of your favorite Marvel comic superheroes together in one action packed game. What do you get? Well, ultimately Ultimate Alliance.
The story is in the lines of Dr. Doom and a bunch of Marvel baddies are running amuck in the world, causing the random chaos you'd expect from baddies... especially bad guys names Dr. Doom. So, Marvel teams up some of their best superheroes to defeat boss after boss in a truly epic battle of good and evil. Characters range from Spider-Man to X-Men to even the cool, unappreciated (until the movie) characters such as Ghost Rider.
Overall, if you've ever played Raven's X-Men Legends games, then you know how this works. It's a classic beat-em-up, hack-n-slash action role-playing game. In single player mode, you create your own special team and control one player through missions. You can swap between which one player you control, but overall, you only control one of the players. You can send your AI buddies to attack, defend, or whatever you want. The AI is sorta stupid sometimes, but eh, it's RPG AI. They're not ever going to be incredibly smart. The plus side is a buddy can jump in at any time and you guys can play two different ways. Co-op with up to 4 buddies, or Arcade mode with up to 4 buddies. You should know what co-op mode is like since you obviously are a gamer and reading this. The Arcade mode is my preferred mode of play. Basically, the best player of a level gets extra experience and extra points to spend on moves and attributes. If you're anything like me, you'll end up taking all of that pie home. It keeps you entertained and is fun to actually steal kills from your buddies, only further ticking them off.
The graphics are pretty well done. Actually, for an action role-playing game, they're really good. The character models, all though not all high-poly character, are detailed very nicely and giving you more of an authentic Marvel look. The shaders are nicely done in the game and I'm basically just expanding my thoughts on "Hey, the graphics are good.". The downside to the game comes from the audio. Not that the soundtrack or voice acting sucks. It's mainly that the audio randomly doesn't play (every time I've ran through it, the frost giant boss battle seems to glitch out). Another thing that I ran into was the stupid thing that always bugs me about games like this: after a while, the Spider-Man voice saying "Why does it smell like rotten cheese in here?" get's really dang old.
Other than that, the game is good. If you bothered to notice, I game the gameplay a 7. I feel like it could of had more variety in the moves. I mean, Diablo 2 has more attacks than this game and it's how old? I think they should have done more with the overall attacking modes, since doing the same move over and over gets old really, really fast.
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:Rent or Purchase?:
·This game is definitely worth a purchase. It's got more than 6 hours of gameplay, and the multiplayer arcade mode brings back memories of the arcade machines and old school beat-em-ups.
· Bringing all of these superstars in one game is a great concept. Surprisingly, the story works with them together.
:Worst Idea:
· Lack of a few really cool Marvel heroes that you would think would be in there. I'm more talking about Gambit, who is one of the coolest X-Man ever.
:Achievement Difficulty: · Overall, they're not too difficult. If you dedicate a little time to the game, they're all pretty much obtainable. Some of them are time consuming, but that's why they are achievements. They're hard to get.
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What an awesome concept. Take all of your favorite Marvel comic superheroes together in one action packed game. What do you get? Well, ultimately Ultimate Alliance.
The story is in the lines of Dr. Doom and a bunch of Marvel baddies are running amuck in the world, causing the random chaos you'd expect from baddies... especially bad guys names Dr. Doom. So, Marvel teams up some of their best superheroes to defeat boss after boss in a truly epic battle of good and evil. Characters range from Spider-Man to X-Men to even the cool, unappreciated (until the movie) characters such as Ghost Rider.
Overall, if you've ever played Raven's X-Men Legends games, then you know how this works. It's a classic beat-em-up, hack-n-slash action role-playing game. In single player mode, you create your own special team and control one player through missions. You can swap between which one player you control, but overall, you only control one of the players. You can send your AI buddies to attack, defend, or whatever you want. The AI is sorta stupid sometimes, but eh, it's RPG AI. They're not ever going to be incredibly smart. The plus side is a buddy can jump in at any time and you guys can play two different ways. Co-op with up to 4 buddies, or Arcade mode with up to 4 buddies. You should know what co-op mode is like since you obviously are a gamer and reading this. The Arcade mode is my preferred mode of play. Basically, the best player of a level gets extra experience and extra points to spend on moves and attributes. If you're anything like me, you'll end up taking all of that pie home. It keeps you entertained and is fun to actually steal kills from your buddies, only further ticking them off.
The graphics are pretty well done. Actually, for an action role-playing game, they're really good. The character models, all though not all high-poly character, are detailed very nicely and giving you more of an authentic Marvel look. The shaders are nicely done in the game and I'm basically just expanding my thoughts on "Hey, the graphics are good.". The downside to the game comes from the audio. Not that the soundtrack or voice acting sucks. It's mainly that the audio randomly doesn't play (every time I've ran through it, the frost giant boss battle seems to glitch out). Another thing that I ran into was the stupid thing that always bugs me about games like this: after a while, the Spider-Man voice saying "Why does it smell like rotten cheese in here?" get's really dang old.
Other than that, the game is good. If you bothered to notice, I game the gameplay a 7. I feel like it could of had more variety in the moves. I mean, Diablo 2 has more attacks than this game and it's how old? I think they should have done more with the overall attacking modes, since doing the same move over and over gets old really, really fast.
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:Rent or Purchase?:
·This game is definitely worth a purchase. It's got more than 6 hours of gameplay, and the multiplayer arcade mode brings back memories of the arcade machines and old school beat-em-ups.
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Probably the best game to play with your friends since Super Smash Bros Melee continue »
- Posted Dec 12, 2006 7:04 pm PT
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- Dinghy_Dog's Score
- 8.0
- great
Marvel Ultimate Alliance“… in way to much it would pancadaria, still has space for some exploration, tests of knowle continue »
- Posted Dec 12, 2006 6:19 am PT
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- Dinghy_Dog's Score
- 8.1
- great
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