Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 Xbox 360 game

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2

2009

Overall rating: 3 out of 5

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Brother versus brother, hero versus hero! Dark times are indeed afoot in the Marvel Universe as seen through the lens of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, follow-up to 2006's superhero team brawler from Raven Software. The sequel brings a new developer (Vicarious Visions) and new focus to the Ultimate Alliance series, but the same core four-man action role-playing gameplay remains. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 has a tighter, grittier slant on the Marvel heroes than its predecessor, focusing less on the cosmic side of Marvel and more on the heroes' interaction with the government. Namely, following an accident involving superheroes that cost hundreds of civilian lives, the US government has decided that all heroes must be registered. On the one hand you've got the pro-registration heroes who see signing up as a necessary step to regain public trust and maintain national security, on the other you've got the anti-registration heroes, who see government involvement in super-heroics as an assault on civil liberties. That might sound familiar... Anyway - you can guess what follows, right? A big ol' super-hero smackdown! After the first act you'll have to choose sides, which fixes the number of characters available to you for a while. As the story progresses, however, more and more of your favourites turn up to create a roster of playable characters that eventually swells to being 24-strong. Gameplay is essentially hack and slash brawling with a liberal sprinkling of role-playing game elements. At any given time you'll have four playable characters on screen, which you can swap between at any point. You'll also get added experience point (XP) for having certain line-ups, such as the Fantastic Four or X-Men, on screen at any given moment. Teamplay also pays off with the newly-introduced fusion attacks, which involve characters combining powers to devastating and spectacular effect. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 is, essentially, the world's greatest superhero team-up. For comics fanboys and gamers alike, that's a lot to love.

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 details

Formats:	PG PS3, Xbox 360, DS, 12 Wii, PSP, PS2
Genres:	Fighting, Role-playing
Developers:	VICARIOUS VISIONS
Rental release:	To be confirmed

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great local multiplayer game.

By rancho (1 review) from Derby , 02 Dec 2009

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MUA2 is a very enjoyable game. brilliant for local multiplayer as u can have 4 players locally. game play can be seen as repetitive but personally, i love it. i am a big fan of marvel anyway and it is safe to say that me and my friends thoroughly enjoyed it!! camera can sometimes be a problem and can sometimes glitch a bit but when there are icebergs, thunderstorms and fire all over the screen it is literally quite understandable. minimum playthrough required to complete the game is at least 2 times (pro-registration and anti-registration) for those achievement hunters out there, this rewards u with achievements at a steady pace but achievements are disabled if cheats are input.

A must have game for marvel fans and for those of u out there looking for local multiplayer games.

my only disappointment with the game came when i found out my favorite character silver surfer had not been included like in the first game.
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Great multiplayer RPG, simple

By dreaming (2 reviews) from London , 06 Aug 2012

A great multiplayer RPG. Does exactly what it says on the tin. Plenty of bosses to fight and players to upgrade. outdoes its predecessor and is definitely worth a go.
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Best to play on Co op

By LJohnsonL (6 reviews) , 29 Jun 2011

good but its much better on Co op playing it single player does start to get boring if you play it a lot

Recommend for Co op only
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Great Fun

By Recundis (2 reviews) from Craigavon , 06 Apr 2011

Great fun especially with more than one player.

Not as long as I would of liked but if you play through it twice to finish both sides of the story will take you about 6 hrs all in of game play

Worth a rent
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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2

By MrsLRoberts (3 reviews) from South Yorkshire , 24 Nov 2010

Very disappointed with this game.I'm a big Marvel fan and loved the first game, but this didn't live up to the expectations I had for it.

It looks more up to date than the first but the gameplay and camera angles totally let it down.

I was so let down by this game I couldn't even complete it because I was so frustrated and bored. Even if you haven't played the first game you will still be disappointed with it's sequel.
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Great concept but poorly executed

By Redking83 (14 reviews) from Liverpool , 22 Oct 2010

Generic button bashing, poor graphics, bad acting, boring plot ruin what could have been otherwise a good game. This game would have outdated on the PS1 let alone the Xbox 360.
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