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Great Fun for All Ages - and Super Co-Op Mode!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 33 / 42
Date: November 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Marvel Ultimate Alliance lets you play with a team of your favorite superheroes. Choose from Wolverine, Spider-Man, Thing, Storm, and many others!

You can sort of consider this a Diablo style game with a much more upbeat style. You are one of four characters on the screen at any time, and can quickly flip through them. You go through the rooms hacking, slashing, slashing, and then hacking some more. Along the way you grab colored orbs and glowing coins to help you level up your own character and unlock goodies.

It's disappointing that at the beginning your four starting characters are Spider-Man, Thor, Wolverine, and Captain America. As much as I like those guys, couldn't ONE of them have been female? Still, it's only maybe 10 minutes later that you get to the "team switching" spot and can begin to design your own team. They're not stingy with the characters. Right from this point you can immediately begin to use spider-woman, deadpool, iceman, colossus, elektra, human torch, iron man, thing, luke cage, invisible woman, storm, mr. fantastic, ms marvel, and moon knight. There's also other unlockable characters that you can get as you go.

Each character can be levelled up to gain new abilities and outfits. You can choose characters that "traditionally" (in comic book stories) work together, and they will actually know to do combos in gameplay.

The characters personalities really shine through in the cut scenes. Wolverine is stand-offish and a bit arrogant. Spiderman cracks jokes the entire time. Captain America feels he's in charge. I realize that it would be IMPOSSIBLE for them to have redone the cut scenes for every single combination of characters that you could have done! So again, I wish they had a woman in the set :) Maybe kick out Spidey and his incessant comments ...

The graphics are rather good, from the flickering flame to the shadows and reflections. This isn't a game of subtleties, though. No textured fabrics or flower petals here. Everything is shiney and plasticky.

On the sound side, it's a comic book adventure. You have incredibly cliched dialogue given by over-the-top voices, and lots of booming going on. It's to be expected.

The storyline is also a traditional comic book story but heck, we all grew up with them! You're saving the world. Depending on how well you play, you achieve that mission to different degrees. They did a great job getting you to replay it over and over again in order to unlock the best ending you can.

I really give the game great kudos for their multiplayer and online options. If you're playing at home, you can easily co-op in four people, one for each character, and go to town. There aren't many games where four people can easily have great fun playing together. For online, the same is true - you can really have a lot of fun conquering levels as a wide range of characters, interacting with players all over the world.

This isn't a heavy thinking game, and it doesn't involve complex concepts. Instead, it's a game that adults can easily play with kids, and that can give you a few hours of fun relief from the real world. Well recommended!

RENT this game.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: November 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Spiderman:
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Basically when you first start playing this game you have no problem learning the control scheme. I dont mean that its dull, I mean that its simple to pick up and start smashing baddies. Its also a fun game to play because the combo system mixes it up more than the basic punch/block of the old sidescrolling fighters of yore (spiderman pulls off really, really sick combos devil may cry style).

Peter Parker:
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After these positives you eventually get to the negatives of why you should not spend 60 dollars on this game. First of all, its about as deep as a kiddy pool. They try to mix it up with unlockable characters and special moves upgradable for your favorite alliance member. The problem is, the unlockable characters include "Miss Marvel" (WHO IS THAT???? WHERE IS THE INCREDIBLE HULK!?) and also the upgradable moves are pointless since I only used spiderman and zerged the game. Also, the "RPG" part of this game just slows it down for the action fans and the action is too fast for RPG fans. I wish they would learn that an "Action-RPG" is almost an oxymoron.

Secondly, and I dont know if its just my PS3, but it seems like all the launch games including this one take inexplainable framerate dumps. I dont know whether to blame Sony for not giving companies decent dev kits or what, but this shouldnt happen on "Next-Gen" systems.

The Story
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I think I saw a review that said "Its a great game to play between playing other games" and I couldnt agree more...which is why I dont advise anyone to spend 60 bucks on it unless they are either a hardcore marvel fan (which I am because im like Peter Parker sans nuclear spider bite.) or an action fan who cant wait for anything else. Otherwise just buy this game used or rent it, im sure the people who bought it new will be beating it soon and selling it.

A game between games!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 16
Date: November 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I couldn't have said it better myself! This game is lame, I cant stand the camera angles. I ordered it because I knew I wouldnt get the game I wanted to play the same day I got the PS3. I wouldn't recommend spending $60 on it, but if you have nothing else to play, it was fun!

Fun game, especially for comic/hero fans !!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: December 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Hey, I admit, this may not be the game if you are looking to highlight the grand capabilities of your PS3. But if you wanna have some good, old fashioned rock'em, sock'em with Spider Man, Captain America, Thor, and lots of other classic Marvel heroes, then this is the game for you. If you have played either of the X-Men legends games you get the idea of what this games' set up is like. It is mission based as the heroes battle Doctor Doom and a legion of other villians.

Don't get me wrong, the graphics are an upgrade from the X-Men Legends graphics, but don't harness the full capaability of the PS3, which I doubt we will see harnessed by any game until sometime next year.

The story of the game is long and will provide hours of fun and entertainment. To be honest, I feel that some of the other reviewers here have been a bit harsh. Stop expecting too much, too soon from your PS3. Better and better game will come, just as they did with PS2, you just have to be patient and in the meantime, have some fun. Ultimate Alliance will provide you with that fun.

Marvel Mania

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I personally liked it. I'm not that much of a die hard comic fan except when it comes to The Punisher (where was he by the way) but this game was very action packed and fun. It was very good for a 1st launch (keyword) game.

One of the best PS3 games yet!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This has got to be one of the best launch titles for the PS3 yet. The graphics are very nice (full 1080p!) and the sound fits in well. If you liked any of the X-Men Legends games for the PS2, then you'll like this action/RPG. You take on the role of four superheroes of your choosing (from about 40), including many of the X-Men, Fantastic 4, Spider Man, Captain America, etc. Highly recommend it!

Cool idea, but BORING

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: January 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love games that let me control superheroes, but the game play here is just boring, and the storyline is weak. There is no real strategy or skill to the fighting other than wailing around on the buttons until the bad guys die. You would think that the make-up of your team would have some sort of impact on the outcome, but the only real reason I could see for picking particular characters was to live out your own fantasy of having superpowers.

I wouldn't waste the money. They should have thrown this in for free.

The game itself is good, the game on this system is not.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: January 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played this on my friend's 360 and then on my own Playstation 3. (I confess that I'm a Playstation fan -- bought the PS1, PS2, and now the PS3.)

The frame rate and color depth on the PS3 version are pretty depressing in comparison to the 360 version. Sure, it's a simple little game; jump around and hack and slash or use your specials. It's a mindless sort of fun. Simple. But you'd think they could do more with a $600 system and such a "simple" game. It's not like it's using photo-realistic graphics or anything, and yet... I feel like I'm using a really slow computer to play a really graphically enhanced game. Needless to say, I feel very let down. The game itself is good, the game on this system is not.

At least I still have Fight Night...

Great Graphics, Fun Fighting, and Awesome Audio

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you like comics and RPGs, this game is for you. Looks really good in HD and sounds great with Dolby Digital Surround.

I like the way they give alittle backstory on each character and there are lots of hidden items and unlockable characters and costumes.

Well worth the price of admission.

Button mashers rejoyce!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: February 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

*Sigh* Someday comic-book fans will get a well-thought-out and well-controlled video game, until then, Marvel Ultimate Alliance will have to do. Good selection of playable characters, but abyssmal writing (some of the things these characters say are REAL groaners), choppy camera, and button-mashing controls ruin the fun.

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