Marvel: Ultimate Alliance for PlayStation 2 Reviews by Gamers

What can be better than getting to make your own team of superheroes to fight crime?Personnaly my deam team is the team of Spiderman, Wolverine, Ghost Rider, and Capain America.The graphics in this game are good and the gameplay is pretty much the same as X-Men Legends games.If your familiar with the Legends games then you won't have a hard time figuring out how to work your team.The biggest dissapointment is that when they said over 140 Marvel characters, I didn't know they ment there were only 20 playable ones.At least you'll be seeing the rest along the story mode,wich is good.Yes Marvel Ultimate Alliance is a fun game to pick up and play,try it out.

If you are a huge Marvel fan you must pick up this game. I bought this game the day it came out and beat it before the week ended. Yes this game is short but it is extremely fun and addictive. Watching these characters in action is totaly awesome. the level design is great and so is the story. Pick this game up if you want to have fun this holiday!

This game had me hooked from the very first cut scene. And as a fan of Marvel's X-Men: Legends series, I had high expectations for this game. Needless to say they were met and exceeded. This game blows JLA Heroes out of the water. DC you guys need to take a step back and check out this prime example of a Comic Book - Video Game masterpiece.

With unlockable characters, hidden items, and an overwhelming storyline. Marvel Ultimate Alliance delivers action, adventure, and a great gaming experience.

My personal favorites are the great choice of recruitable charcaters and cameo appearances of some of Marvel's top heroes. And the fact that there are multiple costumes for each of your characters.

I rate this game a 10 in the comic book fan scale and a 9 in the gaming scale! Overall this is a five star must have, must rent, or simply must play!

Marvel Ultimate Alliance is truly the comic book fan's dream! With popular characters like Thing, Wolverine, Spiderman, Ironman, Thor and Captain America and less known characters like Ms. Marvel, Deadpool, Elektra and Luke Cage, Ultimate Alliance is the first Marvel game to expand the Marvel universe in such epic proportions.
The main drive to complete the game is to unlock every character possible, like Ghost Rider and Silver Surfer. As you play, you'll unlock classic costumes and new costumes for every hero that just keep adding to the Marvel fans excitement! You also find yourself battling against popular (and even the not so popular) villains from the Marvel comic universe, like Galactus and Dr. Doom.
The game is also driven by its fast-paced and exciting RPG-style brawler gameplay. What truly drives its fighting system is the fact that each hero comes equipped with his or her own special array of techniques and combos to add to the fray. This is clearly why the gameplay is so amazing. If it weren't for its fantastic group of playable characters, Ultimate Alliance wouldn't have much going for it and the gameplay would become monotonous and repetitive.

Marvel:Ultimate Alliance has been a very engaging game. I am normally very skeptical of any superhero game and to date, XMen:Legends was one of the best. However, Alliance takes it to another level. The ability to choose from up to 20 Marvel characters, each with unique his/her own unique powers, adds a lot of variety to the game. I find that if one group of characters isn't succesful in defeating a boss, I use a different combination. I consider myself an average gamer and so far, after playing perhaps 2 hours a day, I am not even 1/2 of the way through. There is a nice rpg format to the title, but the best feature is the overall playability of the game. So far this has been one of the better games released on the PS2. On a side note, there is a weak plot that gets you through from one act to another but it is enough to make the game engaging. I would be suprised and disappointed if this game did not receive accolades from the gaming industry. The graphics were good on the PS2 so should be even better on a next gen system.

Pretty good game! full of action.. i would say to rent this! if your a fan of super heroes!

If you are a superhero fan like i am, it's no different than Justice League. its putting different types of heros with different types of abilities, and making them work together. only difference, is than most of the Marvel Superheroes are mutants. But its still a cool fantasy game.

The game looked way better on t.v. but the game play was pretty good but it bugged that it played like avatar for ps2. It kept me busy for a long time but the fact that u played as 4 people at a time was innoying.They so could had made the game way better.I still can't complain the game was still pretty good.still all in all the game was okay.

This game was start to get really good until I enter the codes at the place were you pick your team which was were I thought the codes would work after I tried them at the start screen. They just wouldn't work. So I decided to go the hard way. Once again it started to get exciting. Until I got to Asgar. It is like IMPOSSIBLE!!! ........ SPIDER-MAN AND GHOST RIDER RULE!!!!!!!!!!

This game is a must for comic book fans. If you're going to play why not play with friends it gets more fun with more friends you have to play with you. It's almost exactly like all of the X-Men Legends games. The 20+ characters they promised you are a sham though.

They all pretty much have the same abilities, a projectile attack, a Sheild Attack, a Stat Boost Attack, and a Non-Unique Speciall Attack that ends with some sort of explosion of powers. The characters you really wanted to play as aren't there, there are only THREE X-Men. Ice Man, Storm and Wolveren. And a bunch of oldbie characters, for die hard marvel fans. I really was looking for more newer characters, like Jean Gray, NightCrawler etc.

Other than lack of real character defination the game is very fun and highly addicting. Grab you some friends and soda's and get together and play this game. You'll enjoy it. I reccomend Cheating to get all the characters though. It's not a game I'd play through twice.

This is one of the best games i've ever played. the story line is good the characters are good, everything about this game is good. if you like X-men legends you will love this game.

boog1e

very fun, finally legends 3, took 20 minutes with codes.

Its about time we get a fun game that two people can play co-op.I'm a big marvel fan and im very pleased at how some of my favorite characters are brought to life.I enjoyed the Justice league game but this game is just better.The biggest surprise for me is how the game is balanced even though the characters are as natural as daredevil or as powerful as the silver surfer.I've had this game for over a week and i still have fun putting teams together(yes i used the code to get all the heroes lol).I gave it 8 stars because sometimes i got lost and it should have had the punisher and the freakin hulk.

GOOD GRAPHICS GOOD STORY LINE THE POWER MOVERS ARE EXCELLENT AS WELL. BETTER THAN THOSE XMEN RPG GAMES. WORTH BUYING

Hah! when I rented both games at the same time, JLA Heroes was in for a day then a week later I finish MUA and send JLA packing before I even got into it. MUA is awesome for comic book fans and even for those who have never picked one up. it brings together the best parts of the x-men games and uses new heroes to tie it together. If you like games then this one is one for you

Well I was a skeptic at first. I couldn't see how you could have a superhero RPG but this is just that. It is surprisingly good and is now slotted for one of those rare games I buy. Only real bummer I had with it was it missed several of my favorite X-men. I would have loved to had played gambit, nightcrawler or colossus, though Wolverine fill that slot pretty well so I cant really complain.

If you like the old game of Gauntlet where you have 4 characters who simply run through a set course and whale on random villans, then this is the game for you. I was disappointed, as I had played Gauntlet, a game with a very similar engine, back in the 90's! There is so much more that can be done with Marvel Heroes even on a PS2 platform.

As a former comic collector, I picked this game on my past status as a fan.

This is one of those "jump right in and play" games, not requiring a lengthy study of the instruction manual. As is often the problem with such games, it lacks the complexity to be intriguing for very long.

This game reminded me of the Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles video games (or The Simpsons, or the X-Men arcade game). While such scrolling "beat 'em ups" were great in the late 80's to early 90's, most video game players want a little more than jump/attack/super-attack and a joystick.

The ability to pick a team of various Marvel superheroes, and switch control of team members during missions, allows you to try your hand at playing a large variety of characters.

However, some the the characters' super powers don't don't translate well into such a game control interface.

It's possible the game complexity is geared towards younger or less experienced players, and I'm guessing this game would make an excellent choice for a younger player, particularly a comic book character fan.

But for my tastes, I knew I wouldn't have as much fun playing this scroller/fighter game as I would re-playing some of my own games I've already beat. Hence, I traded this title back to Gamefly after a few hours, and will look for a more challenging, exciting game for next time.

the best game in the world whats better than ghost rider deafeting arcade and captain america slaying fin fang foo

I really enjoyed playing this game. I think it was just a fun game to play. I enjoyed the way the multiplayer works.

I really love this game but like it was already said its basically legends 3 with a few alternations. I enjoyed and it played really well.

UA just doesn't stand up to X-Men Legends I or even II (not a big fan of two). First of all, the game looks like cow dung, and that makes it really hard to get into a game, especially a button-masher like this where you have multiple pieces of dung flying at each other in a prismatic spray. I don't know, maybe it's better on the next-gen systems. The voice acting is atrocious, despite the presence of some good voice actors. But my main beef with UA is it's presentation. I love super-heroes. I love super-heroes when they are somehow grounded in reality (I know it's a stretch but it DOES happen). There was a time that you could count on Marvel to keep one foot in reality with it's stories. Not any more, and now their horrifying comic stories are leaking into their games. XML I and (to a far lesser extent) XML II made you feel like you were playing in the (somewhat) real world. But right off the bat MUA throws you into a cosmic war against...who? Dr. Doom and Loki? There's a team-up for ya! The character selection is also lacking. Yeah sure...there's a bunch of playable characters, but most are Avengers. There are only THREE X-Men! You can't even make an X-Men team! And who? Wolverine, Storm and Iceman! Whoopty-doo!!! And who cares about Dr. freakin' Strange!?! Black freakin' Panther!?! And where's The Hulk? Lame... I've had this game almost a month. I made it to the third act. Am a that bad a gamer? No, I just forgot about this game after Christmas and just found it in my player today. So GOOD-BYE, Marvel Ultimate Alliance! And don't come back!!!

Dr. Doom creates a brand new Masters of Evil. They unleash several armies at multiple locations, and all hope is lost. But what's this? A new hope on the horizon? YES! It's the Marvel Alliance!!

In this dungeon-crawler, you make your own dream team of superheroes, such as Ghost Rider, Spiderman, Spider-Woman, Iron Man, etc., and bring Dr. Doom's forces a whole new definition of PAIN!!

This game's awesome, but the puzzles during boss battles get a little TOO brain itching. I had to go to the internet and find a walkthrough several times.

Other than that, this game is great.

Being a huge fan of both the X-Men Legends games, I had really high hopes for this game. And while I was pleased with it enough that I'll purchase it in the future, I still feel the game was lacking. They did a good job of changing the mechanics just enough so that it wasn't exactly like the X-Men Legends games, but the roster of heroes needs some help. Face it, there are some heroes in this game who should be replaced with more prominant, and better known heroes, and I feel there needed to be some special unlockable characters to use during a second play through. I really didn't like not having The Hulk or Colosus on the roster. And where is Cable at? What about Punisher? I'm hoping that a sequal to this game comes in the future, and that they increase the number of playable charactes, or at least change a few of them to ones who were not in the first game. Other than that though, this game was very fun, the graphics were cool, and the story was good. All around, a very solid play.