Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2: Fusion (360, PS3, Wii, DS)

[Mario_Galaxy]

McNiven? :heart:

 

[Havok83]

McNiven? :heart:

amazing artist who drew Civil War

 

[TrekBiker]

The only real reason I think Blade and Elektra were in it was because they had movies,and so non comic readers might recognize them a bit more. This time around we definitely need more characters involved in the comics nowadays. She-Hulk,Thunderbolts,eyc.

I agree as to why they were included. As much as I would like them to make a game and include 100 playable characters, that's just not economically feasible. They have to pander to the crowds to push their product, just like anyone else. I thought Blade was one of the more powerful characters in the game (strong melee attacks, regeneration and a boost that boosted his regeneration), but I agree he seemed out of place compared to the other characters and the storyline. I wouldn't be surprised if they included a few characters just to appease the general public at the expense of not including a few characters hard-core fans would like to see.

 

[Havok83]

Blade defiently felt out of place. He may be a Marvel Comics character, but he barely has much to do with the Marvel Universe. Its like he's in his own little world and rarely interacts with the other heroes. Definetly was an odd choice

 

[Nathan]

Has McNiven ever drawn Venom before? I'd like to see what we can expect.

 

[Havok83]

Has McNiven ever drawn Venom before? I'd like to see what we can expect.

yes in Civil War.

 

[Silverstein]

I want to constantly feel progression, not like I'm playing another dungeon crawling RPG where I fight endless hordes of the same few baddies per level.

Like if the level is a NYC street during an invasion, why not have branching paths with different obstacles and conversations depending on the path you take. And then if the next level is on the helicarrier or something, why not have an alternate level on a skyskrapper for players who took a different path?


Replayability does not exist when, no matter what you do, you come to the same events and story....Especially in such a story driven game genre as an RPG..

 

[Storm22]

15. Venom

Where was Venom confirmed?

 

[Nathan]

Wasn't it in one of the scans? He definitely was confirmed, that's why I was to excited about a Thunderbolts Team being a possibility some pages back.

 

[shadowdog]

He was actually confirmed pretty early on. No pics yet, just a few mentions in articles.

 

[Storm22]

He's not mentioned in the Gameinformer article anyway.

 

[shadowdog]

E3 2008: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 Character Announcements
Tons of heroes join the fight - plus custom details.
by Narayan Pattison
July 15, 2008 - Activision announced there will be 24 heroes in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 Fusion. In addition to Iron Man and the Invisible Woman that we previously knew about, Venom, Green Goblin, Spider-Man, Hulk, Captain America and Wolverine (in an old classic costume) are confirmed...

 

[Storm22]

Ah cool. So that makes 15 confirmed characters so far then...

1. Spider-Man
2. Iron Man
3. Thor
4. Storm
5. Green Goblin
6. Invisible Woman
7. The Thing
8. Human Torch
9. Wolverine
10. Daredevil
11. Captain America
12. Hulk
13. Luke Cage
14. Mr. Fantastic
15. Venom

 

[0neDisturbedSOB]

I love McNiven's artwork so this game is right up my alley. When is it rumored to come out?

 

[Storm22]

Around March '09.

 

[zeptron]

About the amount of playable characters, are there gonna be just 24 or is that the amount that you start off with and you can unlock hidden characters? I'm hoping it's the latter.

 

[BLAQUE-SPIDERMAN]

We'll see how things continue to develop as the game gets closer to launch, but that teaser trailer sucked to me. Don't get me wrong, i'm all for the game, but that trailer was lackluster!

 

[John Connor]

I Cant wait

 

[shadowdog]

The general thought is that there will be unlockables like last time, and probably some eventual DLC, but for now all we know is 24 characters.

I would imagine there would be an unlockable character for beating the game, one for completing the sim discs and maybe one or more from in-game side-quests like the action figures in MUA1.
If we got another 4 or 5 characters that would put the total rigt around 30, which would be great IMO.

 

[Brainiac 8]

Wrong forum dude.

 

[Tigerking]

Letting some villans be playable kind of bothers me. I mean there could probably be more heroes that could take the place of Venom or Green Goblin. *coughNovacough*

 

[shadowdog]

hopefully they will stick to villains like Venom and GG that are now affiliated with the Thunderbolts, so they won't technically be playable villains, just heroes who used to be villains...and will be again at some point, I'm sure.

 

[Brainiac 8]

Letting some villans be playable kind of bothers me. I mean there could probably be more heroes that could take the place of Venom or Green Goblin. *coughNovacough*

NOVA!

 

[Superhero 101]

I hope they have Magneto as playable. He was really fun in XML2 and on the 360

 

[Finlandman]

It's a good thing that we finally get rid of ultimate costumes as defaults.