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 superhero-the... |
Rating of 2.5/5 |