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Don't know what everyone's griping about.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: October 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was never very big on fighting games and don't really call myself a Marvel fan, but I always enjoyed watching the new millenium films and take a peak at some of the more-recent comics. The only fighting games I ever played were Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee, Godzilla: Save the Earth, Soul Calibur II, and Barbarian; I never liked 2D fighting games. When EA announced they were going to release a new fighting game w/ Marvel characters called "Marvel vs. EA", I simply thought, "Another 2D fighting game w/ Marvel characters". I thought it was going to be just like Capcom's "Marvel vs. Capcom" or the "Marvel vs. Streetfighter" series. Boy, was I wrong!
When they showed the first screenshots of the game, something really caught my eye: the Marvel characters resembled their movie counterparts! And who were those other guys? They must have been the "EA" side. Still, I wasn't sure whether or not I wanted this game, because it looked kinda like those "Tekken" games (and I don't like those either). Later, I saw a demonstration shown on some footage from E3 2005, and by then, they gave it the name "Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects" (now the new characters made sense, but I never got the "Nemesis" part of the title; oh well). After I saw it, I wanted it. This was a free-roam fighter, which was the only kind of fighting game that I really liked (and there aren't that many). When the game came out, I rented it (I don't buy games for 50 bucks) and was very impressed, despite all the lousy reviews I saw for it.
Most people said that the story mode was its lowest point. WHATEVER!! The story is awesome! It starts you off as The Thing strolling along a bridge, when UFOs come out of no where and destroy the bridge! Or most of it anyway. Now you learn the basics of combat, fighting alien drones along the way. Then, after you beat the level, you come to a cool cut scene where it shows that superheroes all over are being attacked/killed/gone missing through a News Special Report. I really liked the tragic feel of the story: super beings that have overcome overwhelming odds with near ease for the past few decades (like within 30 minutes or 30 pages) are being easily picked off (as in killed) and only a few (the ones you play as) even get a chance to fight back. I was suprised that there was in fact, alot of beat-'em-up gameplay (and I love that kind) and what better way to do it than with Marvel superheroes in 3D? There's one point in the game where an evil scientist with some foreign name (I think Russian, I don't remember) releases three of his "Imperfects" which is when you choose between The Thing, Wolverine, and Elektra and fight the chosen character as a particular Imperfect and when you beat that chosen character, that character is no longer in the storyline assuming that character is dead (and I unknowingly killed Wolverine, one of my favorites). The gameplay itself can be somewhat tedious and has some very interesting boss fights. The Vs. mode is very fun especially on Lives mode w/ both sides' live bar put on full, but I would rather play the story mode and unlock more characters and stuff. Overall, this game is for everyone: Marvel fans, fighting gamers, beat-'em-up gamers, casual gamers ect. I would really like to buy this game if I had the money. IT WOULD BE WORTH IT!!!

From a True Marvel Comics Fan

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've written reviews for X-Men, X-Men 2, Revenge of the Sith, and I will say this. This game does for these Random Marvel Characters what Revenge of the Sith does for Jedi. It makes them playable on an interactive 360' & 3D intuitive level. It is truly amazing how good it feels to play some of these members of the Marvel Comics family. I've read Marvel Comics for 20 years and this game really captures the basic essentials to a Marvel Comics mini-series employing fantastic multi-media comic art, hand eye playability, appropriate voices, and the proper comic hero/villain personas. It does so by also giving the story an interesting gothic twist. It is the first Marvel Comics interactive mini-series with 1/2 the characters being our favorites and the other 1/2 being completely new, dark and fascinating. Beautiful. I absolutely loved it. It is FANTASTIC. I don't care what the poor reviews say, this game is great. And until Storm starts spending alot of time in her closet (with the doors closed), or until the Thing gets a face lift, Make Mine Marvel.

fun game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I had a blast playing Marvel Nemesis with friends. It has a versus mode where you can fight against a buddy or AI or on Xbox Live and singleplayer story mode too. The story mode is OK, and playing it will teach you some of the more complicated moves, like air tackle - but the real meat of the game is the multiplayer fights. (My guess is that they felt the story mode necessary to explain how the new Marvel characters fit into the Marvel world)
You get to pick from a good selection of Marvel heroes (Ironman, Venom, Spiderman, Elektra, Magneto, Storm, Wolverine, Thing, Human Torch, and Daredevil) as well as 8 new characters that Marvel came up with for their "Imperfect" storyline. The new characters are pretty cool, (The Wink for example is a lot like a female version of Nightcrawler) but a lot more creepy than the classic ones, I guess Marvel's trying to be more edgy for the new generation of comic book fans. All the new characters are villains created by an evil scientist named Van Roekel. OK, that part of the story is not very original. The locations are cool and creepy, they went with a darker look like in the last Batman movie, so don't expect the bright and colorful 1950's comics style superheroes in leotards with brightly colored backgrounds.
Each of the characters have regular attack moves plus their signature move superpower like webgrabbing for Spiderman where he spins his web around the opponent's feet and pulls him in close for attack, or sai throwing for Elektra, the claws for Wolverine etc..Other cool moves are wall climbing for Spidey and Wolverine (he uses his claws) wallrunning, Venom and Spiderman have super web blocking which is like a webdome effect that thows the attacking enemies back and so it's actually a good move to use against a group of guys, the Thing has a super ground-pound area damage attack as well as a cool headbutt and so on and so on. They did a good job with making all the characters unique. They also went with a simple control scheme so the attack and the block buttons are the same for all the characters so you don't need to memorize special combos which is a plus for some people and a minus for others. However because all the characters are so unique it does take skill and thought to fight. The fighting arenas are big and full of interactive objects that can be thrown, caught, destroyed or you can throw your opponent into some explosive barrels etc too. I love ripping out lightposts and mailboxes and using them as weapons.
Overall, this is a good fighting game with fully 3D interactive environments that is unique among video games, comic or otherwise.

This game rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I never thought they would make an fighting game where you are only superheroes. You can even be villains. This game is awesome to play with your friends too. It has some intense multiplayer. I recomend this one for any superhero fanatics.

Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects is an action slash head to head fighter that truly delivers on all that is promised.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects is a two player action slash head to head fighter that truly delivers on all that is promised. You can choose from multiple Marvel Characters and either fight along side other Marvel heroes to thwart the scourge that is the Imperfects or just beat the crud out of your friends in multi player. This in all honesty is where the game truly shows its grit.

Graphics- 9
The graphics in Nemesis are an absolute joy to look at. The characters are very well planned out and executed. The levels while a bit tedious and repetitive, also have a high level of detail and interactivity. While the latter mostly includes picking up things and tossing them at people, still it's interactive. Pretty much everything in this game looks great and the Marvel characters are dead on accurate, though don't go looking for classic costumes, new game, new look.

Game play- 8
There are two sides to the game play in this title. Single player while fun, is not this games high point. The single player bit consists of an exclusive story line introducing the imperfects and explaining their wants and needs, blah, blah. You know the drill bad guys trying to take over the world, good guys trying to stop it. It has a great little two sided tail, meaning you get to play both good and bad guys, but still it's nothing new action game wise. But the single play suffers from repetitive level design and a pain in the butt A.I.. That makes it tough, but some times makes it pointlessly tough. Still its fun and you're playing as a super hero, so win some lose some. Multiplayer, now that's where this game shines. You and a friend can just go at it in a classic super hero fight and for once you actually feel like a super hero. Depending on who you are you can fly, shoot fire, throw cars, sling webs, fire laser beams, call forth lighting, pretty much what ever your super hero character can do in the comics, you can do against your opponent. The game allows for timed matches or life matches, so you can go at it for as long as you want. Also, if you're friendless at a particular time and still want to get some clobbering time in that game allows for bot matches, so you can always play.

Sound- 6
The sound in Marvel Nemesis is not very enthusiastic in the way that there's nothing too special. The Characters all have voices, but no real scripts, just smack talk. The special powers all sound good, but nothing great. And the music, well that's very bland, again not bad, just nothing super cool or anything. Just your basic video game sound. I do give it a little extra due to the object throwing and bashing does sound really well, it's just not enough to merit the rest of the boring sound.

Control- 9
Controls are simple, yet effective. You have your attack, block, jump, and grab buttons. A trigger for running and a trigger the makes all the pervious buttons mentioned super. So you can be throwing punches one second, hold down the super button and be setting people a blaze in the next second. It all works out really well surprisingly and is not that hard to figure out. Plus once you get it down you start to feel really cool when you start running up walls and grabbing people out of the air. Takes a few minutes to get down, but eventually your flying like a true hero.

Overall- 8
All in all Marvel Nemesis needs to be in anyone's collection that likes fighters, comics, or the two combined. Even people with no prior fighting knowledge or who missed out on the comics should pick this title up. It truly gives you the feel of being a super hero and gives one a good view of what a fight between giants would be like. From throwing a taxi at a friend, to raining down lighting you really feel as though you are who you picked. Be it The Thing, Wolverine, Storm, Iron Man, even Magnito, you'll feel like they just plugged in a comic and let you go wild. Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects is a great title for any one looking for a good two player game and a must own for any true comic fan.

This game ROCKS!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Marvel Nemesis is an incredible game! Here's my review,
(5=awesome,1=terrible)
Story-4 1/2
The story line is about Dr. von Roekel, who designs Super humans known as the "Imperfects", who has made an alliance with aliens, and they invade, and, yes, you gussed it, the Marvel heroes try to save the day and fight off the invaders and Imperfects. The idea is sort of expected, but it's a great game.
Characters- 5
In Marvel nemesis, you can play as good guys or villains, each with unique abilities and powers. Plus, you can do vs on it, so if you want to brawl with Wolverine or Venom you can.
Graphics-5
the graphics are possibly the best ever! You can really see Wolverine's blades shining or face features on Daredevil! This game has very realistic graphics!
Music-3 1/2
Although the spooky fiddling when you die is good, this soundtrack isn't great.
Worth your money- yes!
If you're a Marvel fan or if you're just looking for a really good fighting game, Marvel Nemesis:Rise of the Imperfects is for you!

Stop complaining

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game. Some of the characters arnt as powerful as they appear inthe comics but otherwise the story is very good. The introduction of the new supervillians the imperfects (a frankinstien's monster, a russian who can make earthquakes, an non-demon female nightcrawler, a cyborg, and a guy who controls electricity) is a very good concept. Reading other reviews I am surprised about how many people are complaining because they have to unlock all the characters just so they can play as them in verses. Isnt that what you usually do in most fighting games? MK deception only starts you out with five characters out of 20 for gods sake. People, unlocking characters is what you do in fighting games. There would be no point to play if you already had all of them. As for the story, it takes you through section of the imperfects story as its being told my each of the heros, it makes the game more interesting as you use a new character for each part. The aspects of the game brings a change to the characters you know and love. Spiderman is more hardcore insted of being a little wimp as usual. The finishing moves also show the change in the characters, Daredevle breaks his oppenents neck, Storm fries the hell out of them, Thing pounds them all over the place, and some of the imperfects finishers compleatly destroy their opponents bodys. A great game, could use a bit more of a story and needs to be able to unlock coustumes for all the characters.

A good buy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

To those who said this game was not the worth the money. What are you smoking? You might want to remember to take your medication in the morning. This is an extremely fun game. I would recommend it to any person who likes to play video games. It is a must buy for any great gamer. I am a big fan of video games that let you play as super heroes, so if your like me you will like this game. It has an awesome multiplayer mode. The story mode is also a lot of fun. Take my advice. Buy this game.

BEST COMIC BASED FIGHTING GAME EVER!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS REALLY FUN! i play it every day, it is hard but beatable and 2 player mode is great! its got all your favorite marvel characters and then some! this is a great game for any one who is or ever was a fan of the comics and even for people eho arent. reminds me a lot of the old skool marvel versus capcom nut better and with a deep story line. buy it its good stuff!

Very Tricky

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: November 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have written only a couple of reviews, this one I chose because I thought it was a very good game. Don't listen to the other people. This game is fabulous. Very little flaws. The levels sometimes can be tricky. Many of the characters you like to see are in it. Many are not. Good characters are Wolverine, Elektra, Spidey, Venom, etc. Sometimes, this game makes you want to throw the controller at the TV, but you must restrain yourself and keep trying.

Graphics - 5
Gameplay - 4 1/2
Fun - 4 1/2
Challenging - 2

ENJOY!

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