Marvel Ultimate Alliance

Pookie Bear · 2 Nov 2006 at 09:19

Anyone else got this? I ordered it from a competitor for £14.99 last week (ordered because I couldn't believe the price - a tenner less than everyone else!) and it arrived this morning

Had to go to work, but left it sitting by the PC for me to start super-heroeing as soon as I get in tonight - I hope it's as good as it could be

GM@N · 2 Nov 2006 at 10:15

As far as fighting games go, this looks pretty reasonable. Let us know when you get around to play it.

Mana · 2 Nov 2006 at 13:10

fun game

just make sure u have a gamepad ready!!!!

Pookie Bear · 2 Nov 2006 at 17:59

Doh, I'll need to find my gamepad convertor thingy

Podfather · 2 Nov 2006 at 18:01

Brought it just today. Its an average game in my opinion. It didn't keep me entertained for that long but the gameplay is quite good. The graphics are nice to look at but after awhile i think to myself "why couldn't they have made the graphics better".

Matmulder · 2 Nov 2006 at 19:58

I'm thinking about buying this, but only if one of my mates does...I can imagine co-op is where its at. Upto 4 players too, should be amusing.

Pookie Bear · 3 Nov 2006 at 09:33

Got half an hour last night - definite port from a console, in my opinion, which is probably why I got it so cheap! then again, I really only did get half an hour, so my characters aren't well developed and I need to sit down and examine how it all works

......must resist the temptation of NWN2 or I'll never play MUA at all!

Matmulder · 6 Nov 2006 at 21:08

Update...

Me and mate played this last night, its a right laugh

Reminds me of an updated "Streets of Rage"....grab people and smash them in the face, grab a bar off the wall and smash it in their face, grab a barrel and smash them in the face.

Or, if you prefer, you can just use your fists to smash them in the face. Before throwing them to the ground, so everyone can smash them in the face

As you can tell, there's lots of face smashing. And its fun!

The unlocks are good too, and I like the levelling and super powers to give it some customisation.

The only downside is that its a relatively poor 'port'. For example, I've set my pad up, which has 10 buttons, but you cant map the rest of the controls (like swapping hero's, etc) to the keyboard, you have to use the pad, which is stupid as I've got no more buttons free

And most irritatating is the fact that its still set as if your all sharing a screen, even though you've got your own. So the hero config is a pain.

Oh yeah, and Deadpool ***

Pookie Bear · 7 Nov 2006 at 23:28

I've had a good go at this, and I quite like it

Controls were a lot easier once I ditched the mouse and my gamepad and went straight to keyboard for everything. There's very little I need anything other than the keypad and the WSAD/numbers keys for.

Good graphics, fun story, lots of development, but not in a massively-RPG fashion and just having a good laugh, really. Some nice little touches, and lots of name-dropping and whatnot from the true Marvel-philes about