Hasn't aged very well. The game looks terrible and extremely dated, with bleak environments. The mix of ultimate designs and classic designs for characters is a weird choice that characters such as Wolverine and Thor suffer for. But a lot of the alternate suits are nice callbacks for comic fans.
The basic gameplay is basic and repetitve. The actual good skills that are unique to each hero (and their powers) are pretty decently fun to use but often will cause energy to drain so fast that you're forced to go back to annoying melee mashing that feels extremely soulless.
The story is overall good, it is a little cheesy and the voice acting is pretty terrible (extremely over-acted) but it takes you to a variety of comic locations and lets you meet plenty of characters that you're kept invested on where you'll go next.
Overall I'd say it's worth playing if you're a fan of comic books (maybe not just the movies/shows though as quite a bit of this is oldschool obscure) but the gameplay really does drag the score down.
The basic gameplay is basic and repetitve. The actual good skills that are unique to each hero (and their powers) are pretty decently fun to use but often will cause energy to drain so fast that you're forced to go back to annoying melee mashing that feels extremely soulless.
The story is overall good, it is a little cheesy and the voice acting is pretty terrible (extremely over-acted) but it takes you to a variety of comic locations and lets you meet plenty of characters that you're kept invested on where you'll go next.
Overall I'd say it's worth playing if you're a fan of comic books (maybe not just the movies/shows though as quite a bit of this is oldschool obscure) but the gameplay really does drag the score down.
I revisited this one much later after originally receiving it along with Forza Motorsport when I got my Xbox 360, but I really enjoyed it. I'm not a huge fan of its top-down gameplay, and I don't really like the genre as a whole, but its Marvel characters and storyline drew me in. It wasn't too difficult, and at times, it was a refreshing detour from some of the other games I was playing around that time. Good, geeky fun.
A Marvel universe epic, a beautifully fun action RPG, all of Raven's experience gave us this, Marvel Ultimate Alliance and it's one of my favorite games of all time. You want a tour of the Marvle universe visiting all the famous places with a big roster of heroes? This is your game! Mods also breathe new life into this game so I definately recommend that
Thankfully, with all the Diablos and Diablo clones out there, we got an ARPG that is different. Not better, perhaps, but at least different.
Built upon the corpses of X-Men Legends 1 & 2, Ultimate Alliance was a bright, bombastic light in the darkness cast by the aforementioned swarms of games.
Colorful and an absolute blast to play with friends or online, with some of peoples’ favorite Marvel Characters.
It’s a shame this series died with the lackluster Ultimate Alliance Civil War.
Well, until 3 came out for the Switch. I haven’t played that one yet.
I’d say you owe it to yourself to at least give this a try.
Built upon the corpses of X-Men Legends 1 & 2, Ultimate Alliance was a bright, bombastic light in the darkness cast by the aforementioned swarms of games.
Colorful and an absolute blast to play with friends or online, with some of peoples’ favorite Marvel Characters.
It’s a shame this series died with the lackluster Ultimate Alliance Civil War.
Well, until 3 came out for the Switch. I haven’t played that one yet.
I’d say you owe it to yourself to at least give this a try.