Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
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Game Information

Release Date: September 15th 2009 (N.America)
Developed By: Activision / Marvel / Bink Video / havok / Vicarious Visions
Genre: Action/Adventure
Platform: Cross Platform
Age Restrictions: 12+

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Synopsis
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The Marvel Universe is being torn apart. You and your team of Marvel Super Heroes help Nick Fury launch a secret pre-emptive strike against Latveria and Lucia Von Bardas only to have to thwart her retaliatory attack on New York City.
Coupled w/ other Super Hero incidents, public sentiment turns against Super Heroes. The Superhuman Registration Act becomes law and Super Heroes must register as wepaons of mass destruction and become licensed government agents with the United States government.
Lines are drawn as Iron Man leads the Pro-Registration side while Captain America leads the Anti-Registration side. You must pick a side and fight to determine the fate of the Marvel Universe and human kind.

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Story
I will go through in detail the first mission then some other significant points cause i don't wanna ruin it for you the Story is amazing!

OK for this game it's non-stop action from the beginning when you start the story theres an opening cutscene of the beginning four characters (Spider-Man/Iron Man/Wolverine/Captain America and an unplayable Colonel Nick Fury) in Latveria at Castle Doom Aigneis out some of the guards stealthily. Then you gain control of Iron Man but you can freely change your character with the D-Pad between those four. You play the first level to obtain Black Widow's intel by fighting your way through guards and use each characters special moves. Once you reach the checkpoint and listen to the intel you then are bombarded with little alien machines obviously sent to kill you at this point is when the newest feature and probably one of the coolest features in any game ive seen called FUSION (combine two characters special powers and obliterate the enemy) There are over 250 different combinations of fusion powers between all the characters. My favorite for this first mission is Iron Man and Captain America this is a guided fusion where the fusion takes place and you maneuver around killing as many as possible. this one is the most effective because it's controlled and it last longer then the others. The others involve button mashing to either increase radius of attack or collect enemies. After this fusion attack you basically wanna jizz in your pants its so cool. After this you then meet with your first Boss, Electro. He runs on electric (obviously) theres a mini cutscene before it where Electro talks but then you start you have to defeat him, he is very easy to beat but it gets harder as you go. The most effective way to defeat him is using Fusion. You can use a fusion attack when you kill enough enemies and when the fusion meter in the bottom right is filled. To defeat him you have to destroy two generators powering Electrothis is explained by Nick Fury during the mission. That for the most part concludes this first mission.

Other significant points is basically when the Superhuman Registration Act (SRA) is proposed and this is when it gets good you have to choose between two sides Pro-Registration (Iron Man) or the Anti-Registration (Captain America). Personally i choose Captain America side first so for this you have to fight all the criticism given to you by the USA government about joining the other side you fight different bosses and you play different missions. So this is what also makes this game so awesome there's pretty much two campaigns but the ends are the same its just how you get there. When you approach the end it is just one big superhero fight and it is just all out chaos and non-stop action to the end. SO ill let you find out what happens on the end (its amazing!!)

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Mulitplayer

Multilayer is basically the same as the story mode except play it with your friends which is +.

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Controls
The controls for this game are pretty easy to follow as you go through the story it gives little hints (mostly in the beginning) on different things you can do. Most of it is done with combining such as (xbox 360) holding down RT and pressing A,B,X,Y with a character will use there special move. LT and pressing A,B,X,Y (pending on which character you are) will activate the fusion strike also remember that there are 250 different combo's to do so mix it up.Other than that controls are pretty simple Y is to jump and for certain heroes double tap Y will allow them to fly. There's a lot more freedom in this Marvel game as compared to others. Also you can choose your team the more characters you unlock the more options you have also keep in mind when picking your team the fusion strikes you can do.

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Leveling Up
In this game once you gain points you can use them to upgrade your characters to make there special moves better i personally always had Iron Man/Captain America on my team (pending which side you choose) so i upgraded them which helps a lot whether its increasing health or increasing power of a move.

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Graphics
Graphics for this game are pretty good nothing special but very accurate could be a little more detailed but it's better then treyarch/bungie but not better then MW2 but still very good for 2009.

Final Rating: 9/10

a little something i made in photoshop
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