The game was announced at Activision's E3 non-E3 event, where only a brief teaser was shown. This slightly longer snippet was unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con 2008, which got underway today in Southern California. It indeed shows off various Marvel characters fusing their powers, but looks far from actual gameplay. It's still pretty slick to see Wolverine and The Hulk team up for a variation of the Fastball Special, though.
The game was announced at Activision's E3 non-E3 event, where only a brief teaser was shown. This slightly longer snippet was unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con 2008, which got underway today in Southern California. It indeed shows off various Marvel characters fusing their powers, but looks far from actual gameplay. It's still pretty slick to see Wolverine and The Hulk team up for a variation of the Fastball Special, though.
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 7:55PM (Unverified) said
Okay but can I play as Deadpool,Omega Red,Apocalypse or and Onslaught?
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 7:56PM (Unverified) said
Looks much better than the last one. Hopefully is more fun also. The last got repetitive really quickly to me.
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 8:15PM (Unverified) said
Is it just me or did the Human Torch look a bit ... undead?
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 8:15PM dogmaticatheist said
My wife and I will be spending many-a-hours playing this one.
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 8:48PM (Unverified) said
i dont understand why Hulk was doing the Fastball special instead of Colossus
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 8:16PM LaughingTarget said
OK, who was the guy with that only wore a t-shirt, jeans and swung the chain?
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 8:34PM (Unverified) said
That was Luke Cage.
Graphics don't look too great, but the last game didn't have any either and it didn't prevent it from becoming one of my fav games.
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Graphics don't look too great, but the last game didn't have any either and it didn't prevent it from becoming one of my fav games.
Posted: Jul 24th 2008 8:47PM (Unverified) said
that was Luke Cage, he has super strength and impenetrable skin, well, impenetrable except for adamantium
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 8:49PM (Unverified) said
"OK, who was the guy with that only wore a t-shirt, jeans and swung the chain?"
Luke Cage: "Power Man", "Hero For Hire" etc etc
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Luke Cage: "Power Man", "Hero For Hire" etc etc
Posted: Jul 24th 2008 8:59PM (Unverified) said
I liked him more with the afro and the metal headband than bold.
Black Goliath is the one that gets pwned by Thor Clon in Civil War but how did Thor died again?
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Black Goliath is the one that gets pwned by Thor Clon in Civil War but how did Thor died again?
Posted: Jul 24th 2008 9:06PM (Unverified) said
Thor didnt die, not really, he was reborn with the rest of the Asgardian Gods when Ragnarok occurred. They were all reborn except Odin, because Odin died before Ragnarok. Now Thor is back with all the guys and he rebuilt Asgard in Kansas. Oh and in the most recent Secret Invasion he appeared on the last page and killed some skrulls
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 8:29PM (Unverified) said
Oh God, don't ever use a number and the word "powerlevel" together ever again.
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 9:00PM (Unverified) said
Where are the bad guys? Seems like their just showing off their powers for no reason whatsoever and crushing a lot of useless rocks. It does look nice though. I'm going to keep an eye on that one.
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 9:03PM (Unverified) said
Looking at it again, there are a few useless soldiers to kick :)
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 9:00PM (Unverified) said
I don't know why they made a big deal about fusing, when mainly it is just about teaming up and taking down the bad guys like in the first game...
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 9:28PM (Unverified) said
if this is based on the civil war comics (as rumored) wouldn't the bad guys they are taking down, themselves be heroes?
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 10:25PM (Unverified) said
it will be heroes against heroes!!! we need a better preview... this fusion was not what i expected.
i want to play this online already!!!!!
what was the deal with the sirens and all diff. countries!?!? that made no sense
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i want to play this online already!!!!!
what was the deal with the sirens and all diff. countries!?!? that made no sense
Posted: Jul 25th 2008 9:10AM (Unverified) said
Seriously? Lack of reading ftl. It clearly said on the screen, "Latveria -- source of attack". Then the sirens went off and it showed explosions on the map where all the cities are located. So, using context clues, basic reading, and a 2nd grade intellect, I figured out that LATVERIA was the SOURCE OF THE ATTACK. And all the EXPLOSIONS signified an ATTACK all over the world. Whew, that was tough to figure out. Thank god I have velcro shoes, I don't think I have the cognitive capacity to tie them after that brain-bender.
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Posted: Jul 25th 2008 11:29AM xGeneral DEATHxDEETH82 said
I wish I could stop laughing...I truly do...my side hurts now...thanks Doug.
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 10:30PM shattercross said
Animation looks sorta crappy at this point, hope it's just a pre-release issue.
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 11:10PM (Unverified) said
Yeah, the "fusing" is not impressive. Granted, I'm not a superhero, but I can't imagine much of a difference between throwing a huge chunk of pavement into the ground and throwing a huge chunk of HOT pavement into the ground. Maybe you give the bad guys a tan?
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 11:39PM (Unverified) said
I got a chance to go to the Activision event and one of the speakers confirmed that the game starts with Secret War.
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Posted: Jul 25th 2008 12:05AM (Unverified) said
Wikipedia suggests this too, after reading the characters involved all but one (Blackwidow and Captain America are not shown. I'm sure there is a few others.
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 11:56PM Batzarro The worlds WOrst Detect said
Cool! I'll combine the power of Cyclopse with he power of Daredevil!
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 11:56PM (Unverified) said
I too am a little miffed with the Hulk version of the fastball special. And i really hope they cram in the number of heroes and villains into this version. Like the inclusion of X-Factor characters (Cable, Maverick, Domino, Shatterstar), Projectile characters like Gambit, Longshot, Bishop....I'am sure others here have wish list of characters to include. I just hope its not a Big Slugger list of the top 10.
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Posted: Jul 25th 2008 1:02AM MisterSmith said
I want some Iron Fist and/or Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E.
Otherwise there will be some major problems.
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Otherwise there will be some major problems.
Posted: Jul 25th 2008 3:20AM (Unverified) said
And here I thought it would be like the Silver Surfer movie ending.
There goes my Hulk Torch.
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There goes my Hulk Torch.
Posted: Jul 25th 2008 5:47AM (Unverified) said
Looks like they stuck "Latveria" where northern Romania actually is. Those Romanians are gonna be pisssssed.
:)
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:)
Posted: Jul 25th 2008 12:53PM agentolive007 said
i've yet to read game informer's article about the game yet, so while i think that will shine more light on it, i'm pretty certain and therefore bummed that MUA2 most likely is NOT based off of Civil War.
the big reveal is fusing powers? i'm sorry is this 1997? are we supposed to get hyped about adding powers? like that's all you got? could still be good though...
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the big reveal is fusing powers? i'm sorry is this 1997? are we supposed to get hyped about adding powers? like that's all you got? could still be good though...
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