Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2

With the announcement of the purchase by Disney, the success of films and cartoons, and various related products, the publisher Marvel Comics has never been so evident as now.

The good phase also yielded the release of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, “which recalls the game mechanics that mixes RPG with the action of previous titles in the partnership between the publisher and Activision and uses almost all the major characters in the so-called” House of Ideas ” Spider-Man, Captain America, Wolverine, Hulk and Iron Man.

Civil War

The plot of the new game is based on a great event of the official timeline of the publisher named in Brazil’s “Civil War”. The game takes various liberties, but knows how to make and the high points of the plot that the mythical characters divided into two rival groups after a great tragedy caused by a young hero: one who defends the record of masked vigilantes by the U.S. government and others against .

The designers managed to create an immersive and accessible for those who do not follow the comics and enjoy to fit mechanical interesting as dialogs with multiple answers that can change the attitude and relationship of your group of heroes and the chance to choose which side to fight.

The mechanics, however, little has changed. The top view not only recalls the previous game, but also the series “X-Men Legends” and it falls to the side of action than for the RPG. The User always has a team of four characters in each mission and can skip to the control of any one in real time, in addition to having the freedom to exchange the four heroes of the bunch according to the availability of the cast.

There is usually little disruption in the fight against endless waves of enemies and anything goes to bring them down: you can throw cars and other elements of the scenario against opponents as well as, of course, use the powers characteristic of each figure – while it manages the computer ( reasonably well) the other three heroes stranded. As there are enormous variations in controls, things can get boring for those who just do not care about the story or actors, but this is clearly a game made for longtime fans.

The RPG portion appears in the rise of levels, count points to acquire new skills (or enforcement) and the presence of some items that appear to give bonuses to players. Besides being somewhat complex, with almost no room for improvisation or the use of creativity in the settings, this side of the game seems poorly thought out and finished in a rush.

What saves it is the aforementioned choice of attitude towards the events, dialogues with trees that offer defensive positions, diplomatic or aggressive, with different bonuses for each result.

Teamwork

The cast of the game is filled with stars of the first order from the publisher as Hulk, Captain America, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Thor and Venom, but also provides room for second-tier characters like Soprano, Ms. Marvel and Luke Cage . The same side of the villains and heroes who appear as leaders, War Machine, Cable, Magneto, Wizard, Electro and Soldier Invernal.

The variety is not just to satisfy the fans, but also shows important mechanics to create the so-called Fusion Attacks, special attacks carried by the heroes in the player’s control that cause good damage. The mechanics is simple and starts with the handle of a button, which illuminates commands over the heads of other team members. You then select which one is lucky to get to destroy everything that comes around. The result varies depending on the pair that activates the power, Wolverine can reflect rays of some hero to all sides with your gut or being thrown against enemies, depending on who is the partner, among other options.

The camera can deceive, but “Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2″ shows the characters of the publisher with great neatness and fidelity. Just bring a little vision to notice the nice modeling and detailed textures that enliven the sense of control true legends of pop culture. There is a great leap in quality of presentation of the original version, though the voice has irregular times and the camera, as said, do not get all the details ever. What seems to spoil the technical aspect of truth is the presence of some strange bugs, the most bizarre of them happened when, on one occasion, used Wolverine to lift an object of the scene and instead of throwing it, the character is that it was thrown and landed outside the bounds of the screen, catching the game.

It seems that Activision is aware of technical problems and has moved to issue updates. Speaking of the online environment, the game has a menu to buy extras such as additional characters, and also brings back support for cooperative multiplayer games that allow other users to enter the game at any time.