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There are some minor puzzles, and some excellent boss design, but on the whole, it’s one brawl after the next. That’s the gist of it – you can easily make your way through the game just pounding the face buttons.
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Mashing your way through encounters solo doesn’t feel satisfying, and the levels themselves are really linear, with only the odd branch leading to a special collectible or challenge for you to take on."Ĭombat is extremely simple – you have two attacks, you have special, plus modifiers for special character specific moves, and some team up moves, ranging from the simple “Synergy” moves (where you and other characters just perform the appropriate moves together) to the spectacular “Ultimate Alliance” attacks, where all the characters let off what basically amounts to a finisher at once, wreaking havoc on the enemies in glorious fashion (best saved for the boss).
"In solo play, the game can feel shallow, and begin to drag. You assemble a squad of up to four characters at a time, and then go fighting your way through waves of enemies to try and stop Thanos’ quest for the Infinity Stones. Much like the previous games in the series, Ultimate Alliance 3 is a top down brawler with light RPG elements peppered in. This is simultaneously where the game is at its strongest and its weakest. There are references and homages to decades of Marvel history, the aesthetic is right out of a crossover event comic, and it feels like developers Team Ninja filled every pixel and corner of the game with love and adoration for the Marvel mythos.Īs satisfying as the game’s repository of Marvel references and love can be, however, in the end, what makes or breaks Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 is how it plays.
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Of course, there are other ways that Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 is influenced by the MCU – a lot of characters seem to act and behave like their movie (or Netflix show) counterparts, the story itself (Thanos on the hunt for the Infinity Stones) is basically a retelling of the MCU arc, and the game is filled with winks and nods towards the modern Marvel incarnation we all know and love (such as Daredevil making a spry remark about fighting in hallways, or, of course, the Infinity Gems being called the Infinity Stones).īut on the whole, this game feels like a loveletter to all Marvel fans.
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Yes, Disney now owns Fox, which means future Marvel games will probably have similarly full featured rosters too – but the development of this game predates that acquisition, and it’s very nice to see that Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 still attempts to be a shrine to all Marvel fans, not just the movie ones. Unlike most modern Marvel gaming ventures, which seem to be guided by the aesthetic and considerations of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (see also- the exclusion of the X-Men from Marvel vs Capcom Infinite), this here is a game that has no bones about throwing the Fantastic Four, X-Men, Avengers, Defenders, and Guardians of the Galaxy in one mega crossover as they take on Thanos and the Black Order in the hunt for the Infinity Stones.
"Unlike most modern Marvel gaming ventures, which seem to be guided by the aesthetic and considerations of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (see also- the exclusion of the X-Men from Marvel vs Capcom Infinite), this here is a game that has no bones about throwing the Fantastic Four, X-Men, Avengers, Defenders, and Guardians of the Galaxy in one mega crossover." Marvel has become an all encompassing cultural icon in the last few years – Avengers Endgame is now the highest grossing movie of all time – but Ultimate Alliance 3 feels almost untouched by that all-consuming behemoth. This anachronistic approach is good in other ways, too. You’re not subjected to interminable cutscenes or exposition, there aren’t any forced tutorials, you’re not hunting across the map for the highest tier “Epic” or “Legendary” loot, and the game itself is refreshingly immediate to play – snappy controls, simple but satisfying mechanics, and a pre-HD era approach to long time, but now dying gaming tropes like puzzles and boss fights. It is for good because this is a simple, pick-up-and-play brawler with some very old school sensibilities on how it approaches things. As you play through Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, you realize it is a lot like one of the central characters featured in it, Captain America – it is not of this time. It’s hard to put a finger on it exactly, but as you play through the game, so much of it seems to harken back to an older, simpler time in video gaming – an era before games as a service, an era before cinematic storytelling, an era before open world bloat and loot grinding. There is an intangible, indescribable old-school quality to Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 that stands out.
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