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Violence: GamerDad found fairly intense, and constant, violence of all imaginable kinds. But nothing you wouldn't find in a comic from today aimed at pre-teens. Mild Language: GamerDad found nothing offensive except the threats from the villains. Marvel: Ultimate Alliance is a Marvel comics fan's dreams come true. Choose from an assortment of heroes (Spidey, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Wolverine, Storm, The Thing, Human Torch, Silver Surfer, Colossus, Deadpool, Luke Cage, Moon Knight, Elektra, Mister Fantastic, The Invisible Girl, Spider-Girl, Doctor Strange, Ghost Rider, and, believe it or not, more!) and build a team of four to battle the nefarious plot of, well, just about every Marvel villain you can think of (Doctor Doom, Loki, The Enchantress, Akuma, Scorpion, Tiger Shark, Arcade, Bullseye, Radiocative Man, Mandarin, Shocker, Mysterio, and, believe it or not, more!).  Each hero has a bunch of special powers and the game is played in 3rd person perspective. The characters are incredibly detailed, but tiny, making the constant violence (this is a battle game first and foremost) more cartoony and spectacular. Multiplayer works and a team of four can play through the whole game, or over XboxLive, making this a great way to bond with kids and share your own love of the Marvel Universe (or learn about it yourself). It's that rare game that'll please comic nerds, regular folks, their parents and pre-teens equally. 
Like a comic book, this game is all about constant action and cartoonish fantasy violence. Things break, explode, and the fists, uru-hammers, fantastic shields, and webbing flies in the face of the bad guys. Characters die, but come back to life, and the plotline does have some heady comic book themes like loyalty and duty. Lots of suspense and peril and religious parents should know that there's an entire level devoted to the "Hell" like realm of Mephisto (a character from Marvel's brief Satanic foray in the early 70's). Souls are sold, demons vanquished, and Ghost Rider is a hero with a demon attached (and Blade is half-vampire). But if the prospect of Captain America doing battle with the minions of darkness (as well as other murderous melodramatic foes) sounds like a good message... team up, put on the spandex, (watch out for the people on the Internet), and take down evil for the sake of justice!
Excelsior! Other Platforms PC, Xbox360, PS3: Better graphics and multiplayer PSP: Portable, inferior graphics, long load times Wii: Using the controller to activate special powers is cool, for about 5 minutes. Only decent graphics. PS2, Xbox: Graphics only decent. GBA: Not reviewed here. Comments? Chat about it in our forums! Format For Printing | Tell A Friend | Digg | Slashdot | del.icio.us | Buy This Game Home > Review Archive > Video Games > Results: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance |
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