Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2

A comic book game all who like Spiderman or Ironman will like it . This sequel to 2006’s action role-playing game is highly reminiscent of its predecessor: it’s packed with heroes and villains culled from the Marvel Universe, brims with button-tapping glee, and suffers from occasional and annoying technical idiosyncrasies. However, not all the characters are created equal. They’re all fairly balanced, but that doesn’t make them all correspondingly fun to play.The most notable additions to the action are fusion powers. As you damage enemies, you fill up a fusion meter, and once it’s charged up, you can initiate a two-hero fusion attack.There’s a lot of game packed onto this disc. Not only will the campaign last you around 15 hours or so, but the branching story gives you a good reason to return. Furthermore, there are additional stand-alone missions to take on, most of which are designed well and are enjoyable to tackle; a trivia game that will test your Marvel comics knowledge; and lots of costumes, audio discs, and dossiers to collect. So while Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 may not take the series in a big and bold new direction, or benefit from the kind of refinement you would look for in a sequel, it does deliver the button-mashing, power-flinging, over-the-top action fans of the original would expect. And it’s just good fun, even if you don’t know Iron Man from Iron Fist.