Author Topic: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
Sinrebirth  19002 posts
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Date Posted: 9/9 8:01am Subject: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 - Date Edited: 9/9 8:01am (1 edits total) Edited By: Sinrebirth
I never played the first one, but as the second is based on the Marvel Civil War (which I love)... anyone else looking forward to this, or can give me a viewpoint of Ultimate Alliance 1?

 

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Jedi_Matt  2447 posts
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Date Posted: 9/9 1:41pm Subject: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 - Date Edited: 9/9 1:44pm (2 edits total) Edited By: Jedi_Matt
Do you have a 360 or PS3? I'd suggest picking up the original as it came out very very close to the launch of each console IIRC (I had it on the original Xbox), ergo; cheap. I think it can even be downloaded through Xbox Live.

What viewpoint are you after?

Gameplay? Put simply, think of Final Fight/Streets of Rage, make it 3D, change it to an overhead view, and you control one in a group of four superheroes which you can switch between on the fly.

Add in unlockables like extra costumes and characters as you go, experience points for each team member to unlock new abilities/improve their effectiveness and it's a pretty good formula in my opinion.

Online co-op would make this full of win. I don't know if this was an option on the original 360/ps3 version.

I don't know how the Marvel continuity works in relation to the Star Wars one but if it's similar it must be Alternate Universe, quite a few people bite it which makes the scale of the game feel a bit grander.

I can't remember for definite but I believe the enemies effectiveness scales with your own character levels.

 

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Evil_King_Wiggins  14749 posts
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Date Posted: 9/9 10:14pm Subject: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
I enjoyed the first game, I also enjoyed both X-men: Legends game. I'm pretty sure that they used the same engine for all three, though I'm not sure.

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Darth-Vassago  6021 posts
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Date Posted: 9/9 11:38pm Subject: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
The latest game will have an upgraded system. Very similar to the original and X-Men: Legends, but obviously improved.

 

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Evil_King_Wiggins  14749 posts
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Date Posted: 9/10 1:40am Subject: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
Good, if it's not broke, don't fix it! grin

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JediMatteus  720 posts
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Date Posted: 9/10 7:13pm Subject: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
hmnn. looks like the version has not changed at all from last time. i will probably wait and get this for the 360 in late october. i am already getting batman on sept 18th

 

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Jedi_Master_Conor  11449 posts
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Date Posted: 9/17 6:38pm Subject: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
Anyone else get this? I got it on Tuesday. I like it a lot so far. Almost done with Act 2 on the Anti-Registration side. The fusion moves with the characters are awesome. Deadpool/Storm = Win

 

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JediMatteus  720 posts
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Date Posted: 9/17 9:21pm Subject: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
can't wait to get it

 

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The2ndQuest  40221 posts
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Date Posted: 9/17 9:48pm Subject: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
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Deadpool/anything= win. Doesn't matter if we're talking about games or not wink

So they're working Civil War into this game? Neat- might have to pick this one up evebtually even though I only played a little of the first (any word if the Wii version still uses nunchuk tilting to control the camera? cause that bugged the hell outta me in the first game cause me or my friend would do it by accident absent-mindedly).

 

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Darth-Lando  8027 posts
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Date Posted: 9/18 8:49am Subject: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
Yes I HATED that about the Wii version of the original. If you didn't hold your hand absolutely still and straight up and down the camera spun around constantly. Highly annoying.

 

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JediMatteus  720 posts
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Date Posted: 9/18 9:37pm Subject: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
getting this on my 360 for sure.

 

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Sinrebirth  19002 posts
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Date Posted: 9/19 4:22pm Subject: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
The2ndQuest posted:
So they're working Civil War into this game? Neat.


Apparently it starts with the Secret War and moves into the Civil War. That's the entire plot. Which is very neat - and the only reason I care about the game at all. Which is also mildly sad. laugh

 

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Jedi_Matt  2447 posts
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Date Posted: 9/20 11:35pm Subject: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
RPG aspects have been scaled back apparently. I might leave this for a while

 

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Darth-Lando  8027 posts
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Date Posted: 9/21 12:25am Subject: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
I'm having a hard time getting the stats off auto upgrade, even on Legendary difficulty. RPG aspects? Where?

 

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YodaKenobi  11646 posts
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Date Posted: 9/21 4:20pm Subject: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
Darth-Lando posted:
I'm having a hard time getting the stats off auto upgrade, even on Legendary difficulty.


I think Gamespot mentioned some sort of glitch with upgrading in their review.

 

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zacparis  18123 posts
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Date Posted: 9/24 8:00pm Subject: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
Does the game have local co-op? I'm going to buy it on my way home from work and need to know if I also need to fork out for a new PS3 controller. thinking

 

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