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are you kidding me

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 20
Date: April 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

rented this mainly because i wanted to 1080p graphics; this game is a joke. another poor quality game from activision; save your money, not even worth a rental. activision spends more money on marketing than game quality.

Without Dr. Doom playable, this game sucks.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: July 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game was an amazing game until xbox 360 got Dr. Doom as a playable character. The greatest hero in the marvel universe should be playable on all systems. Other characters are ok, but the ps3 bump over the ps2 version is mainly graphics. colossus' grab moves are amusing but who the hell cares about moon knight? If people want to play as batman they should buy a DC game rather than settle for the cheeesy marvel knock off version. Overall the game is very fun and I will modify my review to 5 stars the game would otherwise deserve if they come out with Dr. Doom as a playable.

God Awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game sucks. I cant believe i bought this at 25 then went and sold it for 15. The camera angle is the problem. U are unable to control your view as well as the awkward controls and the story.... what story.

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...

Does not take advantage of the full potential of the PS3

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: February 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are really nice but the actual game is a bit boring and hard to control. The characters are small and to beat the enemies you can just keep pressing buttons until they die.

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.

kids game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The graphics weren't really that great. Reminded me of PS1. This game is more for little children.

One hit wonder

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Marvel Ultimate Alliance is a great game, but only when you have some people to play with you. The cooperative mode can be fun, but I definitely prefer the arcade mode because each player is given a score afterward and this will give you bragging rights if you score higher than your friends.

However, whether or not you have friends to play with you or not, this game is ultimately a button mashing experience while looking at your favorite Marvel character do fancy moves. For ages, game developers have not put too much effort into most of the superhero games because they are franchises that sell themselves, and this game was a perfect example of it.

If you have friends that are willing to play with you, give this game a try, it will be fun at times and tedious sometimes as well.
If you don't mind playing alone, you can give this a try too... but for the most part when I was playing alone I was left with an empty experience of button mashing.

I'd say this game is rentworthy, but not worth buying unless you're a Marvel fanatic.

This is the type of game you beat once and you can't go through again, it's really a one hit wonder. You play it once, and you never touch it again... even with hard mode on the game felt the same all over.

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.

Lots of characters, but no lots of fun.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: February 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game would have been cool on Sega Genesis, but the aimless wandering and pushing buttons until the bad guy is dead got old real fast. Graphics are pretty cool, nothing amazing though. I had trouble picking out Iceman from some of the bad guys, they looked too similar. The save markers are too far apart, if you get pretty far in the level and have to stop you are screwed and forced to play all of that boring level again. I played this game a few times and couldn't take it anymore so I returned it to the video store early. Just rent it, don't bother buying it.

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