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

[TheCorpulent1]

I wish I could say the same for Thor and Beta Ray Bill, but I could buy the same voice coming out of both of them.

Really, I wish they could include separate characters as separate characters. It'd be awesome (for me, anyway) if they had Thor, Beta Ray Bill, Thunderstrike, and Dargo with a Thor Corps team bonus. But I know it's probably a pipe dream.

 

[LEGO Spidey]

So... With Thor, Wolverine and Hulk already confirmed, and possibly Hercules too, what chance do you think Ares has of making the cut as a playable? I'm starting to like him a lot after Mighty/Dark Avengers.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I wouldn't be surprised if he made it. He's gained a much more prominent role in the Marvel universe lately than he's ever had before, plus the fact that he's on an Avengers team makes him even likelier, since that franchise seems to be their chief recruiting area for MUA.

 

[LEGO Spidey]

I honestly hope that 24 figure is for the starting roster only, not including unlockables. Keeping the majority of characters from the first game (except for Elektra and Blade, even though I like him and managed to use him adequately enough) while adding others that were missing would be best. This game needs Hawkeye, Vision, Moon Knight, Hercules, Ares, Punisher, Namor, Cyclops, Sentry, She-Hulk and Iron Fist at the very least... Others like Emma Frost and Wasp wouldn't be bad additions. No more than four X-Men, either.

 

[Angelus]

I can only hope that they are delaying the game because of some of the changes we have been talking about: more characters, new environments, and possibly picking sides (it is based on the Civil War).


I believe that if the game were going to be like the trailers we have seen that it would have most likely been out already. I'm sure Marvel has most likely seen a lot they could improve on and they have done it.

I thought Blade was a great character (3 movies) why take him out?

 

[Savage]

Unless they can really improve his game mechanics they should not put him in. Same for Elektra.

 

[LEGO Spidey]

Blade was actually pretty good to play with IMHO, but as much as I like the guy, I don't think he has a place in a game like this... Neither do most of the X-Men I keep seeing people bring up in their wishlists. We're long overdue for XML3, but that doesn't automatically mean characters like Multiple Man or even Gambit are gonna make the cut in a game with broader scope. Wolverine's an Avenger, Storm is a head of state and one of the foremost female figures in the Marvel Universe, and Cyclops is the leader of the X-Men. If there is going to be a fourth X-Man to get a team bonus, it should be either Iceman or Emma Frost.

 

[Gamma Goliath]

Blade was actually pretty good to play with IMHO, but as much as I like the guy, I don't think he has a place in a game like this... Neither do most of the X-Men I keep seeing people bring up in their wishlists. We're long overdue for XML3, but that doesn't automatically mean characters like Multiple Man or even Gambit are gonna make the cut in a game with broader scope. Wolverine's an Avenger, Storm is a head of state and one of the foremost female figures in the Marvel Universe, and Cyclops is the leader of the X-Men. If there is going to be a fourth X-Man to get a team bonus, it should be either Iceman or Emma Frost.

but why emma, why not collossus or nightcrawler or maybe beast

 

[LEGO Spidey]

but why emma, why not collossus or nightcrawler or maybe beast

There will already be too many tanks to add Colossus or Beast, and Nightcrawler is sort of redundant if Deadpool is playable and has at least one teleport attack.

Iceman and Emma, on the other hand, bring something unique to the table with their powersets.

 

[Angelus]

If found Blade more fun to play than:

Reed Richards
Sue Richards
Dr. Strange
Nick Fury
Ms. Marvel
Storm

It seemed a little tough to swallow to see these characters just start pounding people. I believe all these Characters made the cut and they were very weak to put it kindly.

 

[Savage]

but why emma, why not collossus or nightcrawler or maybe beast

Emma is head of the Xavier School For The Gifted and Marvel's go to psychic with Xavier and Jean being out. She plays a prominent role in just about everything now so I think she's one of the most important X-men characters.

 

[LEGO Spidey]

Emma is head of the Xavier School For The Gifted and Marvel's go to psychic with Xavier and Jean being out. She plays a prominent role in just about everything now so I think she's one of the most important X-men characters.

And she is a telepath, the one power that was missing in MUA.

 

[Savage]

And she doubles as a bruiser with her diamond skin ability (they can just make it that she can't use any special attacks once she goes into this mode). Something about Emma Frost as a bruiser just makes her kick ass to me.

 

[Havok83]

Emma is head of the Xavier School For The Gifted and Marvel's go to psychic with Xavier and Jean being out. She plays a prominent role in just about everything now so I think she's one of the most important X-men characters.

was. There is no more school. But yeah, she's defiently important. I would be shocked if she werent in this one. I expect her to at least be a NPC

And she is a telepath, the one power that was missing in MUA.

They had it to a small degree with Dr. Strange

 

[Savage]

They haven't built the school back yet? Wow. I guess they're serious this time.

 

[LEGO Spidey]

And she doubles as a bruiser with her diamond skin ability (they can just make it that she can't use any special attacks once she goes into this mode). Something about Emma Frost as a bruiser just makes her kick ass to me.

I love Emma in general and it's cool that she is finally a major name in the MU. I'd love to see her make it into this game, especially if given a real diamond form unlike the boost in XML1... That was just bad. I say give her a variety of mental powers (mind control, mind wipe, scare enemies away, make them catatonic for a while time akin to freezing effect, etc), a team psychic link as a boost, and then a real diamond form where she becomes as powerful as Luke Cage in game terms, and we're good to go.

 

[Havok83]

They haven't built the school back yet? Wow. I guess they're serious this time.

no and there are no plans to rebuild the school. Cyclops shut it down after it was destroyed in Messiah Complex. The X-men have relocated to San Francisco and thats there base of operation, but there's no more school. Any former students who have moved with them are now considered X-men as well and fight alongside them and go on missions

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, they're in a survival-at-any-cost mode right now, since there are so few mutants left in the world.

I just bought MUA 1 for my 360. First time I'm playing through it on the 360. I got the DLC and my team right now is Thor, Cap, Hawkeye, and Ms. Marvel. I really want to just unlock all their stuff instead of having to work up to all of it again, but I read that you don't get any achievements if you use a cheat code. So far I've only gotten Thor's second costume, since I play as him most often. I'm gonna make an effort to use the other characters for longer stretches; maybe I'll switch who I'm controlling at every save point or something.

 

[Sebastos]

I will sue if they don't put in the right characters for the game.

 

[shadowdog]

Yeah i think Emma is a great character for MUA2 because it gives the developers a chance to make the characters REALLY play differently from one another instead of them feeling like clones
it killed me that in MUA1 the only character that didn't have the basic few-moves-and-two-boosts-set-up was Wolverine (of course)

Emma could have a more unique move set as well, like she'd have her regular psychic moves for the most part and then once you switch over to Diamond, she could get a whole new move set, or have no special moves but gain invulnerability and boosted melee

Hulk could have a rage/anger gauge, or could unlock different tiers of increasingly powerful moves the longer he fights

I thought of more, but I got the point out ;P

 

[LEGO Spidey]

I will sue if they don't put in the right characters for the game.

I think it's pretty clear who you mean by that, and I agree He should've been in the first game already.

I thought of more, but I got the point out ;P

Yeah, and I agree with that as well. The rage meter was a step in the right direction but more work needs to be done to make every character a unique experience... To give us a genuine reason to take them all for a spin... XML1 had more unique characters (or at least they felt like it) than MUA. Adding to the customization options instead of taking away would only improve this, I think.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Iron Fist, Hercules, and the Vision are my absolute must-haves for the next game, if we include all the DLC characters and the full next-gen roster from the first game.

Cap, Iron Man, Vision, and Hawkeye should get a team bonus too, since they were in that old-school Avengers arcade game together.

 

[Finlandman]

XML1 had unique characters, because everyone had only four power attacks. I have missed that. You didn't have to search a correct power, you just had to press one button. Thanks to that, combat felt more natural.

 

[Havok83]

Im always searching Gamestop and cant find a used copy for the PS3 anywhere.

As for Emma, she's defiently possible. She's one of the characters who got an amazing mod for XML2 and MuA. Here's how her MuA version looks like

 

[TheCorpulent1]

XML1 had unique characters, because everyone had only four power attacks. I have missed that. You didn't have to search a correct power, you just had to press one button. Thanks to that, combat felt more natural.

I like having more options. Imagine how much Thor would've sucked if his only offensive attack were his very first slam attack and you could never get his vastly superior hammer throw.