A game released back in September 2009, developed by Savage Entertainment and published by Activision. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 is a beat'em up, action RPG PSP game that combines the forces of different Marvel characters.
To tell a little about the story of the game... There is some sort of division among the superheroes (a civil war). The heroes are divided into two parties, mainly lead by two prominent characters such as Iron Man and Captain America.
The dispute was fueled when an attempt to capture an enemy killed a lot of innocent people (including children). The humans passed the Superhuman Registration Act, which basically forces the super heroes to abide by the law set by the US government. Captain America is entirely against it while Tony Stark (Iron Man) is completely up for it.
You start off by storming into Castle Von Doom which is basically where the comic book story begins. You are first headed by Nick Fury in this mission but he's not playable.
The game allows you to switch between four heroes, you can only control one hero at a time. Your initial heroes would consist of Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man, and Wolverine but you will get more heroes (as in A LOT) as you go along. Once you got more heroes, you can edit who your team is composed of. Heroes move a lot like you expect them too! For example, Human Torch gets covered with flame when you fly and Dead Pool can teleport a few steps when you press jump twice.
The character elements basically follow how they should be in the comics and in the real world. For example, Ice Man can get hit by fire attacks but Human Torch can stand against it.
Each hero have their basic moves of attacking, tackling/smash and jumping but they can also perform their own unique moves. You can also perform a fusion attack, which basically combines your point character and another character from your team to perform a powerful move (requires some fusion stars).
There are four round panels displayed on the four corners of the screen. There is a a red, circular shape indicating the character's life and a blue circular shape indicating a character's energy (for use with special attacks).
The game is highly objective-based, like destroy this, destroy that kind of thing. You can interact with objects such as using a big gun, destroy cars (hey, I thought we're the good guys?) boosting the game's interactivity.
You can view each of your hero's profile when you pause the game and you can also upgrade their stats, and the heroes also level up as they gain more experience (by killing enemies) making the RPG element of this game. Each hero is uniquely voiced over and you can hear them talk whenever you make them as point character or you perform some attack.
The graphics is overall very dark and dull somehow. The camera is mostly on isometric view and is rotatable. The camera sometimes switch angles depending on the scenario.
I noticed that the game becomes laggy whenever there are a lot of enemies. The written dialog which appears below the screen is also a little distracting since the game is not paused and your attention is taken away during the heat of battle. There is no auto-aim, which makes it awfully annoying that you miss attacks.
The cut scenes is a mixture of both in-game graphics and cinematic. I mostly like the cut scenes with in-game graphics as the cinematic quality really makes you compare the graphical differences.
Ultimate Alliance 2 is a fair game that I think got a little less work than it deserved. Marvel fans would be happy to know that their favorite superhero might actually be in this game (depending on who that is). Entry-level gamers might actually come to appreciate this game, but hardcore gamers will find this quite a disappointment. You can get the game from Amazon
or get it along with the first title here
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Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 PSP Score
Gameplay: 3/5
Graphics: 2/5
Sound: 3/5
Controls: 3/5
Fun Factor: 3/5
Overall: 2.8/5
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