Marvel Ultimate Alliance - First Impressions
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006 - 12:17pm
Has anyone picked this up yet. I'm sitting here at work day dreaming about kicking but with spiderman and I want to know if it is worth grabbing right after work.
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I'd like to know this as well.. rental maybe?
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I've got mine preordered. I haven't gotten a call whether or not its in, but once it gets to the end of the day, I will probably call EBStop and see if its in. My wife and I can't wait to do some dungeon crawling with the marvel heroes. So, are there alternate costumes for the heroes? I would love to get black costume spidey.
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One thing I read is that each hero has 3 different costumes that will give different stats. Also, I believe that some characters costumes may be different characters. I think I remember reading somethign about one of THor's costumes being the skin for another character. I heard that there was 140 playable characters...speculation, or can someone confirm. That would be insane...
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I do know if you go to the site for the game, there are a ton of empty circles for the additional characters you can unlock.
I just checked out the official site, it does say 140 characters to unlock.
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So is this game deep, or is it pretty much hack n slash? If it was deep.. and replayable..
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Will PC players be able to play online?
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I'm guessing its hack n slash. I can't imagine it being more then that. But, my wife loves those types of games, as do I. So, we will replay it several times.
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I'm sure it will be hack and slash with a touch of RPG elements to it, in the same vein as the X-Men Legends games.
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I only have one question: when you get a combo, does the announcer shout out "COMBO!!!" like in X-Men Legends?
Heavens, that got annoying quickly.
It's a sequel to Xmen Legends, only with more Marvel heroes. Friends have said those games are just like Diablo, you hack and slash your way around, loot drops and you get costumes and items to increase your power. You level and gain abilities, etc, and there are attacks that join with other heroes, so a special attack that only happens if the Fanastic Four are playing, or 2 Spideys are playing.
Sounds really cool. I'll rent and possibly buy.
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I'm looking for a game to play with the wife myself, and I think this may be one we can get in to.
Is Xmen Legends 2 worth picking up? Does it do 360 compat?
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Yeah, that is the main reason I am getting it, plus the online 4 player co-op should be pretty fun too. I'm just wondering if the two of us will be able to go online together with two other people. It will be interesting to see.
Another game that we had a blast playing together was SW Legos 2. That was a bunch of fun for the two of us.
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It is hack and slash, though the combat is defintely deeper then your average diablo clone. You have a variety of special moves you can chain together for various combos, and with a nice variety of enemy types you need to keep on your toes and vary your attacks. Even better is that you can combine attacks of 2 or more characters to do special team attacks, like in XML2 you could get Juggernaut to toss Wolverine in a fastball special.
I haven't gotten MUA yet, hope to have it this evening.
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I EBStop didn't get MUA in yesterday, so I got a call last night from the pleasant automated lady saying it should be in today.
My wife was a little bummed that she wouldn't get to play it last night, but we are ready to go tonight on it.
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IGN Review: 8.2
Team Xbox Review: 8.8
Sounds like a solid update to the XML games, should have my copy this evening.
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Awaiting your review Sinatar.. !
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Yeah, now I don't even know if I will get my copy today or tomorrow. I got an automated call around 11 a.m. from EBStop telling me due to a shipping error copies may not show up to the stores until tomorrow (Thursday). Oh well...
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Looks like I'm in the same boat as Rocky, no MUA till tomorrow.
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Nicholas Cage is my hero
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Gamefly has it in as my copy is shipping out today.
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Actually I called, and they had it.
So, I have started playing through the first level with my wife. They start you with Thor, Captain America, Spiderman, and Wolverine. Now, the copy I got had a code to unlock the Silver Surfer. But, I can't figure out where I'm supposed to put this code in.
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Put the code in the character select screen. Worked for me.
Thanks for the tip. Now, I heard that if you use the code, then you won't get the achievement for unlocking the Silver Surfer afer you beat Galacticus. Is this true?
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My problem with these games is that you level up to gain new abilities. Using the X-men games as an example, I didn't know that Storm 'forgot' most of her powers and had to relearn them over time. It just seemed weird that Storm or Cyclops had to punch more than blast people...
Looking at this one, I don't recall Dr. Strange doing a lot of hand to hand combat, and I'm not sure how Iron Man 'learns' more abilities.
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Well, first he has to defeat Blast Man. Then he aquires the updrade Energy Blast...
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I'm just going to assume the super heroes are all hungover and the more fresh air and exercise they get, the more things they remember.
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Ok, I'm buying this. I was on the fence lately, but this changed my mind. Can't wait for the 1up bit on this.
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After about 6 total hours on this with my ten year old having an old fashion geek-out. All I can say is sweeeet.
The hardest problem I have is sticking to a few characters to play. Curse you team mode!!
Yeah, this game is a blast. I can't wait to put Spidey in the symbiote suit.
Has anyone taken it online yet? It looks like when you play a campaign with someone, you actually get to save the online game, so that seems pretty cool. But, I wonder do you get to pull your leveled up characters out of the main game, or does everyone start with level 1 characters?
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I also used to have this problem. I would love to have an superhero game where the superhero's abilities don't have to be limited for gameplay's sake, however, I'm a sucker for games with upgrades. The only game I can think of that kept the superhero's abilities in tact the entire game is Dr. Doom's Revenge (why hasn't this game been remade?).
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Well I thought maybe I would type out some long ass impressions, but really all you need to know is I just spent 7 hours straight playing coop with my friend and the only reason we stopped was due to excessive fatigue.
Awesome. Super double awesome with cherries.
My days of not taking you seriously have certainly come to a middle.
Nicholas Cage is my hero
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