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I’m sure that you guys are tired of me bitching about terrible games so I thought I would give you a break. This also gets me away from playing the terrible games with some awesome Marvel characters that most us nerds have grown up with. The Marvel games have come a long way since the original x-men (1989) game on the NES (yes, I have played that too). Its view is still top down but, game play, story line, and graphics have come a long way.
This is a party game for sure. It’s good that you can play this online as well. The only problem is that if you really want to have fun with the game you do want to try and unlock as many characters as possible although you do start off with a bunch of characters that you would almost always never say no to. But, they do give you enough characters from marvel to choose from so you can customize your own team. On to the game!
When you start the game you go right to a cut scene just like any other game that wants to get you hooked. Thor, Spiderman, Wolverine, and Captain America show up and CA starts issuing orders. Wolverine tells him to stuff it and starts owning his attackers in his own psychotic way. Thor spends too much time talking for my taste but easily owns whatever he touches. Spiderman keeps his smart-alec comments going the entire time with awesome acrobatics. CA keeps his wits about him while he is outnumbered but, turns the tide quickly with his skills. The cut scene ends with wolverine laughing while he flies his hi-jacked craft into another bunch of enemies. While they all consider him psycho, Wolverine thinks they are all being pansies. Yeah give me you’re healing factor and indestructible bone structure and I’ll start doing the same. Show off!
Now for story line and game play they dumb down a lot of what the heroes can and can not do as well as what the enemies can do to the heroes. I mean really, Thor could probably take out Bullseye with his pinky. Enemies that should not be able to hurt certain heroes (Hulk and Thor come to mind here) or not be touched at all (Spiderman)
You start off as a 4 man team consisting of Spiderman, Wolverine, Captain America, and Thor. To me it is not a bad set up and if you want to play this team go for it, I will be changing characters as soon as possible though. This is a top down game so most of the fights you will be viewing from above. I keep wolverine (cause lets face it, he is a bad ass) and Spiderman (one of my favorites). I add Deadpool for the one-liners and boost that he gives the team. Also a good backup to wolverine for my play style since they both have healing factors and it helps me stay alive a little longer when needed. I also add a strong man and boost his focus. Since I did not spend the $8 up front and buy the heroes and villains pack right away I went with the Thing. I ended up purchasing it later which I should have done in the first place since I like the Hulk way more and it gives up Cyclops and Nightcrawler (2 of my favorite x men) so I don’t have to play Storm (yes Hale Berry ruined her for me and anyone of you cum gobblers that think X-Men 3: The Last Stand is a good movie go jump off a cliff) to complete an X-Man team.
You also have the ability to find out existing hidden teams in the game. New FF4, Assassins, X-Men, Avengers, New Avengers, Fantastic 4 and other teams are there when you put together the right bunch of characters. As you can probably tell just by the names you can get away with wolverine in almost all of the teams. Too bad his movie sucked too. Yeah that’s right I said it, what are you going to do about it?
You can also create your own team and even have a back up roster. So the first thing you do, when you get a chance to, is to set up that team roster. That way you get passive bonuses to your team such as increased XP, Striking, and health increases. If you want you can round out your crew pretty nicely (flyer, energy user, tank, and bruiser) or just stack your team how you want to. I did the do what I want route.
The missions are all the same thing. Go to the end of the level and kick the crap out of the end guy there. Usually you have 3 or 4 minor bad guys in-between. For those that follow the Marvel universe you see a LOT of selection throughout the game of where they picked their bad guys from. There are a ton of enemies from Spiderman’s crew: the Scorpion, The Shocker, The Rhino, and Mysterio but, no major ones like Doc Oc, Green Goblin, or Venom (Carnage would have been GREAT in the story line). Same thing with the X-Men maybe an enemy or two from their story lines (gladiator and Deathbird) but not squat for enemies in there: Magneto, Apocalypse, Omega Red, Mojo, or Mr. Sinister. All of these would have been great additions to the story line.
Don’t get me wrong, the story line is great. Dr. Doom has set up this super villain team called the Masters of Evil. Loki, Ultron, Baron Mordo, and Enchantress make up the brains of the operation while they hire out to the saps like Bullseye, The Shocker, Arcade and even misdirect you to Mandarin. I just think they could have had some better Saps if not some more decent enemies to knock around and would have given more of an excuse to get the X-Men in the fight (not like there was not reason enough but still . . .).
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I played this gaem with some friends. It was fun for a while but then gets boring until you get new heros. This review was good but not as good as your RPG reviews wher you get really angry. when is your next review?