Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
| Format | Wii |
|---|---|
| Year Released | 2009 |
| Publisher | Activision |
| Genre | Action, Role Playing Game (RPG) |
| ESRB Age Rating | Rating Pending |
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TVG Rating: 8.8
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Product Description
The Marvel Universe is being torn apart. The Superhuman Registration Act becomes law and Super Heroes must register as weapons of mass destruction, becoming licensed government agents. As Civil War is stirred, Iron Man leads the Pro-Registration side while Captain America spearheads the stand on Anti-Registration. The enemies you battle and the missions you accomplish depend on which side you choose!
- Create and customise your ultimate team. Assemble your dream team from the Marvel Universe and select from over 24 playable characters, each with specialised powers.
- Choose a side in Marvel's Civil War. Pick a side in the ultimate ideological rift that could yield irreparable consequences for the Super Hero community! Support the Pro-Registration side and defend national security, or choose to be Anti-Registration and fight for personal liberties.
- Fight fear with fusion. Combine Super Hero powers for devastating results. Team up with Human Torch and Thor to create a spectacular fiery tornado. Over 250 unique fusions arm you with an unimaginable arsenal for unprecedented battles.
Amazon.co.uk Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 2.0
Good fun despite the weakneses
The gameplay in this game is quite good, the graphics are great and there are plenty of characters. Certain characters are really fun to play (for example, Venon, Nanite Nick Fury, Luke Cage, Blade, Deadpool). You can complete the storyline in a day if you work hard or are a good gamer. I enjoyed playing this game but after I tried the first Marvel Ultimate Alliance, I realized that it had better characters and a better storyline than the second game.
In this game I wanted to have characters that weren't included (for example, Juggernaut, Magneto, Black Panther, Nightcrawler). Not having access to alternate costumes is a limitation in this game; alternative costumes are available in the PS3 and XBox version of the game but not for Wii version. Doing multiplayer is difficult unless you and your partner are good at working together because it is easy to get in each other's way.
Overall, this game is fun to play.
Rating: 4 Buy from amazon.co.uk
Rotten
The first Ultimate Alliance was lots of fun, big enough to run around for hours. The levels got shorter as it went along but the openning levels made up for that. A good sample of locations across the Marvel universe kept the variety up. It had atmosphere and felt like someone had taken some care, even if it did show it's Gauntlet heritage.
This one is just short. The finale feels like you've played about 20% of the first game, it comes as a total anticlimax. I half expected another story to take over and the real game to begin. You can play as pro or anti but they're almost identical so it hardly doubles the game length. The locations are very samey and lack atmosphere, the negative zone corridors are particularly dull. The henchmen you beat up are similarly generic.
The camera control in the first one was one of the most intuitive in wii games, tilt the nunchuck to spin clockwise or anticlockwise. Apparently that was a bad idea and it's replaced here with a system that requires reading the manual and remembering which button to press. Lots of sections the camera angle flips around automaticlly and you end up running backwards and forwards, such as trying to get on to a rooftop from a fire escape. In a dizzying whirl you go on and off until you can do it slowly enough. All the while you're attacked by henchmen. You wonder if anyone involved in the game actually bothered to play this through.
There are some nice cg animated cut scenes and some truly awful ones using the games graphics. A particurly poor one seems to have the voice acting of the developers. The voice acting in the game is never going to win an Oscar but when it's not them it does show why you should hire proper actors. Laughable. There seem to be some plot elements missing as it jumps around like crazy and unlocks characters where it makes no sense.
One star for getting to play as Cyclops, Psyloche, Phoenix and the Hulk. There's no other reason to own this. I'm off for some button mashing fun on the first one again...
Rating: 1 Buy from amazon.co.uk
The ultimate let down
I am a huge comic book fan. As such the chance to play as some of my favourite characters is a real treat. However, MUA2 fails to deliver on its promises.
Some of my favourite characters are missing from the original (Dr Strange, Moonknight, Silver Surfer). Some of the characters return doing the exact same thing which is very dull.
I really miss being able to customise my heroes with alt costumes and special items. The badge system is horrible, they could of used the Wii technology a lot better to choose which bonus to attach.
This game promised a better storyline but since the Pro and Anti side team up for the third act it really doesn't matter which side you choose.
The game is also far too easy. I completed it in normal and hard in just two days. I wish I had just rented it.
Rating: 2 Buy from amazon.co.uk
MUA2 Wii Fail
MUA2 for xbox & PS3 is an epic game, but like so many games these days the wii version gets a watered down version.
You should note this game for wii is more like marvel ultimate alliance 1.5. The characters from the first game that are in this 'sequel' all have the same powers/animations as the first.
There is no online play or dlc.
Iron Fist is not in this version nor is juggernaut.
Not all fusions are the same.
Expect reused SFX from MUA1
See bosses and enemies from MUA1
See Stark Tower reused from MUA1
There are NO alternative costumes for characters.
Levels are different from Xbox/PS3.
Rating: 2 Buy from amazon.co.uk
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