Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2

For many people the big releases are Halo and COD modern warfare 2, not for me, this is what I have been waiting for. For the uninitiated it is a top down viewed action heavy rpg with a wealth of characters to play with a team of four on screen at once.
Sort of a progression on from Baldurs gate dark alliance and the like. X-men legends introduced the four character part, which has carried into the marvel ultimate alliance games. In one player mode you can control any one of the four at the flick of a button and the rest follow your lead, other players can jump in and out of the action, which while fun can get a little muddled.
The gameplay is pretty simple, like most truly great games it is easy to pick up and bash away at. It will not appeal to everyone but for those sick of first person blasters and jap rpgs this is a welcome breath of fresh air. The visuals are sharper than in previous games, although it is clearly still no gears of war beater.
The soundtrack is pretty good but half the time you will be so engrossed in the action you won't really notice it. The voice acting is varied and the script for that matter. The likes of wolverine spiderman and deadpool come of really well where as captain america sounds like a bad radio dj and others just sound like gruff stereotypes, oh and Mr fantastic sounds like a pompus whiny git. still a minor gripe.

The plot covers the secret war and civil war stories from the marvel comics over the last few years. The civil war takes centre stage here, basically the heroes get divided after they are told to register and become government employee's giving up thier secret identities and such like. Basically its an excuse to pit hero versus hero for big action fun.

Overall, five stars if like me you are a fan of these games and possibily three of four for non fans.

Hi all,

Those of you that preordered will have realised that going to www.marvelultiamtealliance.com does not give you a screen to enter you Amazon code.

To enter your code and get your download code you need to go to marvelultimatealliance.eu

Have fun

Got the game this morning and it is amazing, was let down initial when i didnt receive the code for Juggernaught. So i phoned amazon and they informed me that everyone who pre-ordered the game would get an email tomorrow with the code.