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3.5 stars
"Best version of Gauntlet ever!"
Pros: Biggest team up story since Secret Wars. It's Gauntlet with Spiderman!
Cons: Marvel writing and plotting. And of course, it's just Gauntlet, but with Spiderman...
Summary: Is there any point in reviewing the gameplay? It's Gauntlet with Marvel characters. All it's missing is a voice over to say, "Invisible Woman needs food badly.".
This is pure Marvel gratification. The surprising part is that it does NOT ignore a generation of comic fans. Whether you want Wolverine in jeans and a t-shirt or his old yellow and brown get-up, you'll be equally taken care of... Captain America even has his old WWII costume. One of Thor's costumes turns him into Beta Ray Bill.
The character selections are solid, but a little strange. And a little chauvanistic... they left out too many female characters. No Rogue, Kitty Pride, or Scarlet Witch. No Mystique or Phoenix either. Yet you can play Deadpool, Moon Knight, and Luke Cage. Luke Cage? haha What, has Marvel's license to use ROM and the Micronauts expired?? It occurs to me, rereading this, that virtually all the known female characters in the Marvel universe are X-Men. Perhaps that's why Ultimate Alliance is such a testicle festival - maybe they were trying to get away from Xavier's team and broaden the look of the game to include non-X-people. Still, all 8 of the downloadable characters are guys, and that's a little one sided, even in Marvel-land.
This whole "action/quest" genre needs overhauling. Badly. That said, the game is fun for what it is... sometimes you want the intense and immersive experience of Bioshock set on hard, and other times you just want to wander around zapping and bonking things.
The story is laugh out loud stupid, EVEN by Marvel comic standards. The voice acting is beyond embarrassing. Every character in the game gives bio information on themselves like they're responding to a questionaire at match.com. If that kind of lameness bothers you, you should avoid this game like you avoid AIDS, because sheer Marvel dumbosity (yeah, I'm making that a word.) saturates every corner of this title.
I'd rent it first. It's very possible you'll do everything you need or want to in the first 3-4 hours of play. A few people (like myself) will get sucked into trying unlock all the costumes and extras, in which case it's worth the $30.
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