7 = good. Lets be honest here ok....
posted by headhunter (WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT) Oct 27, 2009
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I see a lot of nines and tens on the user reviews up here. And not to offend those that love this game, but this kind of shallow beat em up went out of style for me with the genesis. Pretty much an emulation of the old arcade x-men or tmnt games, the thing that marvel does best is its cast of characters. If you are a comic fan, you will find something to love here. If you are a fan of wandering around and wreaking a bunch of dudes, you will also find some fun. But if you're looking for a deeper more rewarding experience then the 1st game, this ain't it.
This game deserves to played with some friends around. 4 player coop online or 2 player offline, it just gets more fun, the more you have real people backing you up. It's not that the AI is awful, but they don't use their powers as much as they should. And they are not shy about running straight at bosses and losing some teeth. Earlier today I watched an AI teammate just stand in a laser grid until he died.
Other problems I've had are too numerous to name, but some grievances are the poorly placed check points, and the never ending dialog. If you skip all the cut scenes (and you will) the game is pretty short.
In short bursts this game can be entertaining. I will probably never grow tired of wasting endless waves of canon fodder foes, so willing to leap at my fists, but a break now and then is in order.
The biggest fault of this game is that it hardly dose anything to separate itself from the 1st one. There are fussion attacks now, where two characters can combine their powers to clear a bunch of guys or launch one uber power attack, but so many of them are just color pallet swapped and way too over powerful.
Like I have said though, punching people in the face with friends around can be entertaining. Just dont expect the game to deliver anything other than walking down carbon copy hallways, fighting endless clone wars.
7= good.
this game is good NOT great. A perfect rental to waste away a rainy saturday.
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