Developed by Raven Studios
Published by Activision
Platforms: Xbox 360, Xbox, PS2, PSP, PlayStation 3, and Wii
A new blog I am starting is a video game vault reviews in which I review older games that vary in quality. The first game I wanted to review is Marvel Ultimate Alliance becuase it is fresh in my mind. I have just recently replayed the game on Xbox 360 but I have also beaten the game on Xbox.
Marvel Ultimate Alliance is a super hero beat em up team based RPG which lets you control and play through most of the Marvel Universe. The game is developed by Raven Studios who also did X-Men Legacy and X-Men Legacy: Rise of the Apocalypse which are two other games of this genre. Both of those X-Men games were fun games but were flawed and the graphics sucked.Well this game vastly improves on those games and becomes one of the funniest and best super hero games made.
The plot is that Doom and the Masters of Evil are planing on taking over the super hero world which includes Earth, Asgard, the Skrull planet, and many other famous locals. So Nick Furry assemblies a team which is the ultimate alliance which includes Captin America, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Spider-Man, and more. So who will prevail, Dr Doom and the Masters of Evil or Nick Furry and his Ultimate Alliance.
The main thing that makes this game great is the variety of different characters. With 20 plus characters and also add on packs means that you can really mix or match your dream Marvel super hero team. This adds much more playthroughts especially becuase most of the characters are much different from each other. There are some characters that are much weaker than the other ones (Elektra Luke Cage) but there are only two or three.
On the Xbox 360, there are eight different downloadable characters including four villains. I think it is kind of lame that three of the four new characters are from the X-Men but everybody else are solid characters. Also on the 360 there are two system exclusive characters Moon Knight and Colossus who are solid and on the PSP, there are four, The Black Widow, Captin Marvel (aka marvels Superman), Hawkeye, and Ronin.
Another solid thing is the role playing element to the game that works surprisingly well. Each character has there own either physical or ranged attacks that are mostly different from the rest. Sometimes, some characters have almost the same attack but its only a different color which is annoying at time. Still there are tons of different classic attacks like using Thor's hammer and Captin America's Shield.
The final great thing I am going to talk about is the games cut scenes. Even if the game came out in 2006, the cut scenes in the game are absoulty amazing and some of the best I have seen. There is one cut scene in which Doom attacks the X Mansion and that scene looks fantastically great and action packed. The rest of the cut scenes are great but none ever re close to that cut scene.
Now time for my scores. Overall Marvel Ultimate Alliance is one of the most fun team based and super hero games I have played. Since I have played the game on two consels I have two scores. For the 360 I am giving it a 9.2 and a 8.9 becuase the 360 had the increase of characters and better graphics.
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