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A fair warning from an old school Marvel fan

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: October 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When the word came out about Marvel Nemesis I couldn't help to feel this could be a very promising Marvel game. Who wouldn't? The press release (yeah I should know better) made it look great: 15 or more playable heros from several camps not just one: Avengers, X men, Spiderman and the Thing. So far so good. The team EA put together to produce this game looked good on paper also.

Could this be the game that put some of my favorite Marvel comic heros to life on the screen with a good story line, clean graphics and player models, good sound and a great combat/fighting engine? NO. NO. NO. This is nothing but a brilliant marketing plan that made a few investors some money before the word got out that this game is terrible.

I honestly tried to give this game a chance. I tried it for several hours and it was the biggest disappointment in something that had all the potential to be a great title. If you feel like making a few snickering rich guys richer buy this game so they can take even more more money with them all the way to Switzerland while laughing that they duped you bad.

DO TRUST the reviews out there online. Most of them tell the truth about this game. But before bought it I found ONE review from what appeared to be an old schooler like me. He like me didn't want to spend countless hours memorizing key combos and moves. He wanted to get in the game to play as quickly as possible. He like me didn't want to comb through a player's guide for hours before starting. It made sense.

But heres the truth:

Graphics are horrible. What are these people smoking that give the graphics for this game 4.5 out of 5? From even the online mainstream reviewers.

Sound: Not bad

Playability: Worthless. Repeated scenes. Camera mechanics are horrible!

Shame on you Marvel for allowing this sham to use your label. Your heros should revolt and attack the Marvel building for allowing this junk to promise so much and deliver this mess.

Awesome characters get bastardized

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: October 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game sucks. I bought it and I only put about two hours into over a two day period and I haven't played it since. If you're a huge Marvel fan (like me), it's fun to be able to play as your fav characters, but please, for the love of god, wait for it to be $20 until you buy it. It's NOT worth $40.

Repetitive and frustrating

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Marvel Nemesis was EA's turn to cash in on the Marvel superhero franchise. Spider-Man, Wolverine, Elektra, and many others go up against the Imperfects, a group of genetically-altered superhumans. There's also some kind of thinly scripted alien invasion story involved.

First, the good. Production values are spot on, with stylized artwork for the menus and good voice work. The Imperfects are an interesting bunch and each comes with a movie clip detailing their origin. Character models are nicely sculpted, although the camera is often too far away for you to notice.

Where Marvel Nemesis fails is that it's simply not much fun. This isn't Marvel vs. Capcom, it's a brawler/Powerstone hybrid. That in itself isn't a bad thing, but you have to work through an absolutely tedious story mode to unlock all the characters and extras. You'll waste time fighting wave after wave of generic alien enemies, only to reach ridiculously cheap bosses. The game's biased towards the Imperfects, who generally have wider-reaching and more damaging attacks. The AI isn't afraid to spam you with cheap shots when it gets the chance. Also littered across the stages are explosive background objects like oil drums and cars that can be picked up and thrown. They're useful but way too damaging, and can easily kill you when you're close to finishing a mission. Cue frustration.

Once story mode is finished, 2-player mode is supposed to be where the replay value lies. Only, there's not much to it. Not a lot of options to explore here. Levels aren't that interesting to play in, the simple controls don't hold much depth and strategy. Smash Bros. has strategy. This is closer to button-mashing.

Marvel Nemesis is a flawed game wrapped in very pretty packaging. Rent if you're absolutely curious, but there are better superhero titles to look into.

SIMPLY BAD 4 OUT OF 10

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When I was playing SNK VS. Capcom with a group of people we decided to play this game. We were appalled by it's bad gameplay. Unlike great fighters like Street Fighter, Soulcalibur, Dead or Alive, and Tekken, this game does a poor job of being a fighter. To start off the camera angle that this game uses is a terrible angle for fighters which made it confusing to jump on things to get to an opponent. There is also a lack of combat moves, so the game gets boring quickly. It has lacking graphics(I've seen better on the Gamecube than this), the control scheme is confusing, and the voice actors suck. If you want to play a fighter staring the Marvel heroes, go play X-Men VS. Street Fighter instead.

The game's right, it is Imperfect

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: November 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I pre-ordered the Imperfects in May along with the Twikight Princess, seeing that in my Game Informer issue it looked superb. I'm thinking this game looks pretty 'bangin'. So, when I click the start button on my cube I was looking for super, but I recieved sucky.
The story is made of 2 minuit missions which absouluty have no point at all. Though you do play as the evil Imperfects, it still sucks, the level design is pretty shallow, although the detail is extremly deep. You are always fallowed horeds of brain-dead aliens with collosal size guns, who don't even use them half of the time. The movies look like they were made by Speilburg at age 9, with the most cheesy voice-over you've ever heard. The 'Advengers' are all the Marvel comic heros and villains, but that dosen't make sense, Venom and Magnito as the good-guys? What gives?
The multi-player I think is something EA can brag about. Marvels finest have never looked better in any game. The inverments are fully interactive, the characters moves so fine looking. Even the entering and closing one-liners are great(mabey not Iorn-mans), and of corse, the finishing move are so incridibly inginous.
Overal this is one of the games that your cousin who dosin't know crap about games thinks is cool. I'd say rent it, if need too buy it, don't anyone see it.
Peace out.

Marvel Nemesis certainly is "Imperfect"

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Marvel characters have lived in the fighting game genre for some time thanks to Capcom's excellent "versus" games however the rights to Marvel's properties have passed hands to EA who tried their hands at their own Marvel fighter.

And the results are finally in... unfortunately, though they delivered a half decent game they're largely disappointing.

Story: 2/5

The game's store is pretty sparse, and pretty generic an made alien scientist named Roekel has been living on the Earth using humans for genetic experiments and creating super powered beings in the process in attempt to make the ultimate, or in this case "perfect" warrior. These beta versions if you will on the way to creating the perfect warrior are aptly named "The Imperfects." Makes sense I suppose. Anyway Roekel sends out his Imperfects as well as an army of alien warriors to trash New York City in search of his escaped "Perfect" warrior. Though the voice acting is good, the story isn't really thrilling or important or long but it serves its purpose and gives us an explanation of EA's new Imperfect characters which for the most part borrow powers from the Marvel heroes themselves and though some of them are cool they're not very inspired. Their origin movies are probably the most entertaining part of the story mode.

Gameplay: 2/5

Well this is why you're here and unfortunately this is the area of the game with the most issues. First off EA decided to do things a little different from its Capcom predecessors. The game is on a full 3D plain with completely destructible environments. The first problem is the lack of a lock on feature, making targeting and attacking your enemy an annoyance. The game is also designed with a fairly unique combat system using only one attack button and the back triggers as move modifiers however this means all characters have the same moves and anyone could pull off all of the moves their first time playing. The combat system is about as deep as a puddle which is terrible if you're a fighting game fan but works fairly well at letting just anyone jump into the game and play it and possibly win without needing to be a pro. The problem is this also causes the game to get old very fast because once you master one character you've quite literally mastered all of them. Another issue is the game becomes reliant on the environment to win and just chucking debris at people will hurt them a lot more than it should, add to that almost everything is explosive. Winning can be as simple as just item spamming more than the other guy and fights quickly degenerate into games of catch. The characters also tend to be imbalanced, melee characters like Wolverine are at the mercy of more ranged characters like Iron Man and stronger characters can lift more items giving them more ammo to throw at their enemies, ammo that the weaker enemies can't catch.

The biggest issue however with the gameplay is no doubt the single player story mode. It's an essentially mindless brawler that has you play through short episodes with each character. You go around fighting generic alien baddies in massive hordes, occasionally doing some ulterior objective that involves destroying something and once in a while having a boss fight which is where the real fun lies. The gameplay is repetitive and as a beat'em up it's mediocre at best. The game should've only worried about the versus mode and its mechanics instead of bothering with the mediocre story mode. What makes it worse is you start with very few characters unlocked in the versus mode so the frustration of story mode is a necessary woe.

A second player or more in story mode and four player support in versus could've really saved the gameplay in this game. It has a Power Stone-esque feel that screams for multiple players and would've been a great party game. As it stands its simply mediocre in both single and multi-player modes and not worth more than $20.

Graphic: 4/5

This is where the game really shines. The dark and moody graphics really give the characters some attitude. The characters and backgrounds are both very detailed and the metallic shines of things like Iron Man's armor just looks pretty. The animations are spot on and give each character a different mood, seeing characters like Spider-Man jump around is particularly fun. If there's one thing this game does right is you really feel like you are your favorite super heroes although though the game is literally more fun to watch than it is play. The frantic pace and explosive battles are a beautiful thing to behold. I would have given graphics a five out of five however EA proves once again that it's not up to the task of actually making a polished game and there are several graphical glitches and other bugs that you will no doubt notice at least once or twice as you play through the game. It's minor but it's there and it's annoying.

Sound: 5/5

Sound is there and it does what its supposed to do. The operatic themes set the dark and epic mood of the clashing titans though you'll rarely ever hear it over the grunting and the explosions. The sound effects are spot on from character to character and the voice acting is surprisingly well done with no complaints from me except for a few corny lines that are to be expected in a fighting game.

Overall:

I would not recommend this game to a fighting game fan because it's simply too shallow and it's as the fighting game elite calls, "A button masher." I would however recommend it to comic book fans who want to experience the thrill of battling as their favorite heroes but the game is flawed so don't mortgage your house to purchase Marvel Nemesis.

Imperfect, but still a lot of fun.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: October 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game, pure and simple. I had a hard time putting it down. However, it does have some shortcomings.

This can easily be compared to Super Smash Brothers in that the controls are very simplistic. Once you know how to control one character, you can control them all. For those who like the easy fighters like Smash Bros, this is ideal. But this may easily turn off the tournament fighter purists who are used to every character being completely different.

The game can play very cheaply. You could be wiping the floors with your opponent. You could have him on the ropes for the entire match, but with a few well-placed background objects being thrown at you, you've lost. This can be very frustrating, especially in story mode.

Story mode can be frustrating at points, but it's the kind of game where if you have any persistence at all, eventually you *will* win. There's not much to do once you do win the story mode and have unlocked everything. It's verses mode from there on out, which really kills replay value.

The new characters, the imperfects, are all well and good. They're a bit too powerful compared to the normal Marvel characters. But once unlocked they can still be a kick to play as. But in any case, they could have easily been dropped in order to include more of the Marvel favorites.

For a Teen rated game, this is rather edgy. Sure there's no blood or gore. But not having blood doesn't mean that some finishing moves aren't severe. Wolverine slashes mercilessly at a prone victim on the ground. That's one of the lighter finishing moves. Paragon actually has an impaling move far worse than that. But because there's no blood, it only receives a Teen.

Language doesn't get downright foul. But there are a few lighter swear words that are downright flippant. When Spiderman has become a role model lately due to the movies, and Storm has always been one of the more soft-spoken characters, the flippancy is entirely inappropriate.

Warning to the parents and tournament fighter purists aside, this game is fun. It's fast paced, the super powers are pulled off nicely and control is very intuitive. It's not the most solid game out there, but it's still fun enough to make it worth the pick up.

"Marvel"ous [i know that is a stupid pun]

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects is overall a great game for those who have been waiting for a game where you can be a variety of the your favorite superheroes and villains.

Graphics 9/10 Great cut scenes and overall great graphics

Sound 8/10 Good sound featuring voice overs and shocking sound effects

Control 8/10 Once you play the game the controls will come easy too you and are pretty simple

Story 7/10 A little odd..... still new instead of the "Good Guys save the world" storyline

Charcters 10/10 There are tons of playable characters never seen in games before. My favorites are Venom, Iron Man, Daredevil, and the new characters known as the Imperfects.

Pros:
- Great graphics
- The wide arrange of Charcters to unlock

Cons:
-there is not a wide range of new enemies {that aren't characters themselves}

Marvel-ous!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: March 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

(...)I love this game! It's not perfect but it is a heck of a lot of fun. The grapics are really good. The characters are done pretty well (except storm...i hate her in this game). The bonus movies you can unlock are pretty cool . I do agree that some different characters would have been better but hopefully a sequel will come out and blow this one away. All in all...get this game.

Marvel Rock!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for christmas and when i came home the first thing that i did was play the game.
This is my opinion:
Graphics: A-
Sound: B+
Fun: A+
Characters: B+
Story Mode: B-
Fight: B-

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