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mswitzer's Marvel Ultimate Alliance (Wii)
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| [January 15, 2007 03:35:43 AM]
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reflections on marvel ultimate alliance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Marvel Ultimate Alliance for the Nintendo Wii sucks. Not only is it not fun, but it is completely boring. The only reason why I keep playing I think is to see how the story progresses but if it is nearly as long as the Zelda game, I'll probably just cut my losses, throw in the towel, and hit the power button. The cut scenes, though sometimes fun to watch, were mostly just scenes of the villains slowly revealing their plans, explaining and summarizing what was happening with graphics that honestly were not that impressive. The gameplay was dull too.
You are the leader of a four man Marvel team that is asked to carry out missions for other mutants (who seem to know a lot more about what is happening than you do) and follow the map around to the different checkpoints, fighting mindless drones until you fight a boss that is either easy or sort-of-hard. Completing the mission is not difficult at all because each time you fight a henchman, you get more life and they are so easy to kill, you feel like if your mutants could just use their teleportation powers to get to the main chambers where your final battles against the bosses (and only challenges) are, you could have saved an entire hour of your life and nothing would be different. What makes running from room to room around these levels bearable is seeing which unique powers your character has and using them, but since there are only four or five powers for each super hero, the novelty wears off quite quickly. New characters are unlocked throughout the story, but with a game this lame, who really cares? The story is completely straightforward without the ability to alter it or make decisions to change the consequences. It reminds me of a 3D streets of rage for Genesis but longer and with a slightly different plot. Unfortunately, the fact that it was on the Wii made me really excited to play it and I was sorely disappointed.
Anyway, the idea to join all the marvel characters together in a cooperative game was fun at first since most of the games I've played involving marvel were vs. fighting games, but the monotony and repetition of each level quickly made me tired of playing and honestly, I thought the old school x-men game in the arcades with three buttons (attack, jump, and special) was way more fun than this one.
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mswitzer's Marvel Ultimate Alliance (Wii)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Sunday 14 January, 2007
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