Ultimate Alliance new screens
by Alan Rose 
{ May 30th 2006 at 9:35PM }
WorthPlaying has uploaded 35 new screens from Activision's Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, the action-RPG that will let you form your own superhero team using Stan Lee and Company's greatest creations. Nice shot, Cap!
See also: Marvel heroes unite for Ultimate Alliance
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Ahms @ May 30th 2006 9:38PM
FINAL JUSTICE!
that_one_guy @ May 30th 2006 10:57PM
My SPIDEY SENSE IS tINGLALING!
bv @ May 30th 2006 11:24PM
Why make a game like this when you know the outcome will be crap? I'm sorry, but these Marvel universe games where you fight dozens upon dozens of cloned random bad dudes is so boring. Instead of including every character under the bright red Marvel sun, why don't they just focus on great gameplay or a great story? Ya, how about you get the comic book writers to actually write the game's story line? Fighting palette swaps of enemies while pressing the A button repeatedly to bypass boring text dialogue seems like all this game has to offer. Something about translating comics to video games, books to movies, or movies to video games just seems to have a high fail ratio. I can only think of one series of Marvel games that i actually enjoyed and that was the Marvel vs. Capcom/Street Fighter series. The characters were in 2D like they should be and they looked beautiful with their hand drawn animations. Bless Capcom for that. Maybe if they could translate a comic frame by frame to a video game, that would be cool, kinda like Comic Zone for the Genesis, except with a good story.
Who knows, I may be wrong, but there's no doubt this game will receive the same criticism that I'm already pointing out: "A bevy of characters can't keep this Marvel Monster from destroying everything in its path, including you're patience".
rx @ May 30th 2006 11:46PM
ummm. bv, did you not play x-men legends? i guess if you didn't like legends, then i can see why you feel this way.
Gavin @ May 31st 2006 12:24AM
This is gonna be awesome, and yeah #3 must not have played X-Men Legends. They weren't exactly perfect, but they still were the best X-Men adaptations on any console.
will @ May 31st 2006 12:49AM
yeah, you can already create your own ultimate marvel team on marvel vs capcom 2. =P
make_mine_marvel @ May 31st 2006 1:10AM
Actually, I think X-Men and X-Men 2 Clone Wars on Sega Genesis were also pretty good in their day. You can play the ROMs for those games online. Adamantium Rage was also pretty decent. Then of course, there was the kick-ass arcade game - which deserves a console port.
Brian @ May 31st 2006 1:57AM
Sweet Stan Lee I can't wait for this game.
Tim @ May 31st 2006 7:40AM
What a salty weirdo.
#3 that is.
DG @ May 31st 2006 8:35AM
Nothing can be as bad as the original X-Men game for the NES. The graphics were bad, the story was bad, and it was just boring. Same with X-Men and Spiderman in Arcade's Revenge on SNES -- just a terrible game with no point. So bad, that Wolverine's only super power was....unsheathing his claws. Lame.
Is there a list of characters available for this game? I checked the official website, but they only showed a few (certain X-Men, Captain America, Silver Surger, Ghost Rider and Doctor Strange). I'd flip if they included Power Man and Iron Fist. Consider Luke Cage's ascendncy, I don't see why they wouldn't. Fingers crossed!
Concerned citizen @ May 31st 2006 9:11AM
I couldn´t agree more with bv, if there were no famous characters these games would be forgotten, I played Legends and after a while it gets boring, Legends 2 was Legends with more characters and the same dated graphics and gameplay. I can think of at least five better RPGs that are really worth my money, and this isn´t one of them.
C´mon guys don´t sell yourselves so cheap, they just put spider-man face in the game and all of you buy and force yourself to believe it´s fun.
That´s why the quality go down, they know they don´t have to do a good job because they have big names behind it to help sales.
mocax @ May 31st 2006 10:02AM
If it plays like Freedom Force, I'm happy
JD @ May 31st 2006 10:23AM
I thought X-Men legends was pretty forgetable, too. Let's see, Diablo came out in 1996. Tell me again why X-Men Legends (released in 2004) is this great hybrid RPG game? Wait, I can play Storm instead of a Sorcerer? 5 stars!!
soupbun @ May 31st 2006 10:59AM
yeah, XML2 was only mediocre. Finished it real fast, and combat elements were mostly the limited to three styles (fighter, archer, sorcerors) for the dozen characters. the only interesting character was nightcrawler. the only hilight to the game. look at spidey here, for example. I'm willing to bet he's mostly grounded, like storm and rogue were. couldn't use their powers in the air. how lame. this is just a glorified diablo.