Comments on: Marvel Super Hero Squad official game trailer for Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2 (PS2) and PSP [HD] Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2

By: Gilbert Castaneda

Gilbert Castaneda — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:05:12 +0000

Review by Gilbert Castaneda for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 I'm a fan of Marvel games. This game i will have to say is very fun. But, The game has a very slow frame rate. Meaning, there is so much going on that i think the game cant load all of it at once. The sound effects are a little low class, and the graphics are NOT up to date. I wouldn't recommend this game if your a fan of clean cut and speedy graphics. Although, it is still fun and exciting if you look passed all that and don't mind playing it with 60 frames per second. Have fun!!1

By: James H. Winston

James H. Winston — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:35:12 +0000

Review by James H. Winston for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 If you love Marvel Ulimate Alliance on the PSP before you'regoing to like it now...IF you're also a hardcore Marvel Comics fan. Compared to the MUA I (on the PSP), MUA II isn't that good; shorter game play, no unlockable costumes, and certainly a lack of stroyline as compared to MUA I (and what the **** happen to the Galatcus stroyline?!!). As compard to the PS3 vbersion of the game, forget it...at least on the PS3 version you had graphics, coustmes, and longer gameplay if nothing else, but on the PSP, all you have is love of Marvel Comics and that's why I bought it. So basically, if you ain't into Marvel Comics (like Really into it) don't waste your money.

By: JK

JK — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:30:16 +0000

Review by JK for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 Graphics, game plot and everything is not bad. the game control is similar to UA1 but the response is so slow make it a pain to play. blocking is so almost impossible because the system always mistake that with using combined powers (L button). Also has serious lag in response.

By: Shadow

Shadow — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:52:18 +0000

Review by Shadow for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 If you played and loved the first Ultimate Alliance on the PSP, don't waste your time with this game. It seems that when they made the PSP version of this game, they took all of the good aspects of the series and stripped them away. It's like you are playing a demo of a just announced game that still is in the works and therefore still needs a lot of work put into it. I will explain what I mean point by point.

In X-Men Legends 2 and Ultimate Alliance, if you went back to the home base for that act of the game, you were able to go to a device that would let you access bonus missions, see concept art you had unlocked, re-watch the amazing cut scenes you have unlocked, buy gear for your party, go back over your mission briefing, and even have some interesting conversations with some of the characters. And depending on who you had in your party you could get some really interesting reactions from the characters. And from early on in the game you gain the ability to teleport back to the base as needed. In Ultimate Alliance 2, you can only go back to the base between missions. But that makes sense to an extent since they completely removed the gear aspect of the game, so no need to waste your time in an action/RPG equipping yourself. There is no concept art to unlock. You can't watch the cut scenes again, though for some reason you can go back and redo previous missions, though I have no idea why you would want to. There isn't any real conversation between the characters. It all amounts to "here is another bonus mission to unlock someone else" or "go talk to the boss." Riveting.

In Legends 2 and UA1 from any save point you could transport to any previously found save point or back to base. You could also change out your team and even change the costumes of your characters as you unlock them. And speaking of costumes, you had on average 4 different costumes for your characters in the end. Also, locked characters were usually unlocked by meeting some sort of in-game conditions, like find scattered items. With the PSP version of UA2 the save points serve no purpose beyond saving and changing your team. You can't even change your costumes there. Know why? Now, I have heard with UA2 on the console systems that there are only 2 costumes for each character. That stinks, but ok. But with the PSP version, they completely removed the alternate costumes all together. And don't worry about wasting your time finding those little items to unlock characters. In this release of the game you just wait until you are given a bonus mission for that character, get the second place prize for it, and they are unlocked. And speaking of characters, the selection is smaller than that of UA1.

And don't let various web-sites fool you with their descriptions. They claim that you can join with your friends, either locally or over the internet. That is a lie. They removed the multi-player from the PSP version. They call it an action/RPG. This amounts to every time you level up you get to decide where to spend an 'skill point.' Don't get your hopes up though, most of the time due to the level restrictions on increasing skills you will only have about one or two options of where you can put said point.

Oh, and if you want the game for the story, don't bother. The sound quality is so choppy and bad most of the time that you won't be able to understand what the people are saying, and in the few cases where there is subtitles to go with it, they are out of sync and disappear way to fast.

What happened? UA1 had a larger cast to choose from and 4 costumes per character that each had abilities that could be upgraded and you had gear you could equip to each character allowing for some simple but decent RPG elements. There were all kinds of things you could unlock, from finding bonus mission disk to concept art to items needed to unlock special characters. You could re-watch the beautiful cut scenes. And you could play with your friends. UA2: smaller cast, no costumes, no gear, nothing to unlock, nothing to find scattered throughout the levels, and no multi-player. All you have is the ability to redo previous missions. But with nothing to unlock, for the life of me I can't imagine why you would want to waste one extra minute on this game. If this were the first game to come out, all of these problems might be acceptable. But after they did so much UA1, this is a total waste of time and money.

If all you have is a PSP I would recommend sticking with UA1 until you can buy a 360 or something and get a console version.

By: S. F.

S. F. — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:49:37 +0000

Review by S. F. for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 I think my expectations were probably too high, since I loved the first one on the PSP. I've played the original on the 360 as well as the PSP, and was impressed at how close they got to getting the look, feel, and actual gameplay of the console version into a handheld. Sure, there were minor differences, but they were trivial. I even loved X-Men Legends II on the PSP, so I was looking for something at least on par with those titles. Boy was I wrong. I've played about half of the PS3 version of Ultimate Alliance 2, and so far I like it a lot. Probably not as much as the first one, but it is still a lot of fun. The PSP version is actually a whole different game. The only thing it has in common with the PS3 version are the cut scenes. The levels and enemies are totally different, and not in a good way. One of the first things that caught me as being odd was that the enemies sort of float sideways in a fight, meaning that the animation is choppy. It also looks like the powers and leveling system are different as well. One other thing that was a let down was that after blowing up a vehicle, it just vanishes, where in the console version there would be an empty husk that you could pick up and throw. Come to think of it, I don't remember being able to throw anything in this game so far. It's depressing, because I was looking forward to playing as Blade and Psylocke, but I almost don't wanna waste my time on it. I'm going back to the PS3 version for now, so if you really want a portable version and have already played X-Men Legends II and the original, keep an eye out for a used copy, because it'll probably be mine. Definitely don't pay full price for it.