Full Game Reviews
Rating of
3/5
A Superheroic Roster Can't Make Up for the Grind
Chris Kavan - wrote on 11/19/2020
Because all the other Ultimate Alliance games were released on consoles I never owned, I was really interested to experience the series that I was led to believe was like Diablo but with Marvel heroes. Alas, Ultimate Alliance while having all he grind of Diablo, has none of the loot and thus you'll hack and slash your way to slightly better stats and while there are certainly a lot of heroes to choose from, it's not enough to combat the wonky camera and highly repetitive gameplay.
Looks and Stuff: At least the game looks reasonably good - the heroes are based mostly on their comic book counterparts as opposed to the more recent MCU films. The levels run a nice gamut from the Hand ninjas of the Defenders to the X-Men mansion to the Strange realm of the Dark Dimension. Likewise the …
Rating of
2.5/5
Stupor Heroes
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/13/2020
Way, way back in 2006, two years before the Robert Downy Jr.-powered “Iron Man” movie kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe and saw the whole of popular culture saturated with the superhero fantasies of little boys who grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s, Activision (now one of the Triumvirate of Evil) finagled a deal with Marvel Comics to create a licensed superhero videogame that was a mashup of all sorts of Marvel IP. That game, “Marvel: Ultimate Alliance,” ultimately spawned a sequel three years later in 2009. Neither of the ‘Ultimate Alliance’ games were made by the same development team, and neither were the cultural smashes that were the Marvel movies released around them. Originally, “Marvel: Ultimate Alliance” earned some small acclaim due to being a …
