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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 - Mutant and Symbiote edition
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Also, damn do some of the characters suck. Iron Fist especially, or at least in comparison to characters with god attacks like Gambit's 52 pick up or Iceman's ice beam and ice punch (700-1200 damage crit). Spamming those powers with a buddy makes the legendary run mindlessly easy.
Iceman is great and all of his powers have use. It's rare to find anything that is resistant to Cold, so you'll get a lot of mileage out of him.
If you really want to go for overpowered madness, seek none other than the God of Thunder himself. Thor is ridiculously strong, can take loads of damage and his Mjollnir Smash can take off chunks of even the toughest bosses.
My personal fav is Psylocke, though a lot of people don't care for her. She's really fast, her Psi-Drill plows through enemies, her Psi-Bolt is a wide cone-stun, and her Triple Thrust is fast, has amazing recovery and each attack can crit. She has good evasion too, but that's to help make up for the fact she can't take damage for squat. Pair her with Jean Grey and their Fusion attack will do upwards to 3000 damage.
Iron Fist is a decent fighter - his powers come fast and have great recovery. His main appeal is that he's one of the few heroes that can heal and buff the party.
Actually I found my least favorite characters tended to be the big guys - Hulk, Thing and Juggernaut. They're slow, tend to have low Teamwork ratings, their powers tend to be weak and while they have higher hp than most, they don't seem to take damage well enough to justify all their drawbacks. Hulk is the best of the 3 in my opinion - his AOE stun is pretty wide and lasts long, and his tackle works on almost anything in the game, including bosses - ones that it doesn't work on he just damages like a charge.
At least new characters are good each game, it seems like.
Some characters also turned out way stronger than I would have expected. Green Goblin was a major surprise, being ridiculously overpowered. At the same time, some characters turned out to be weaker than expected. Venom for example - who's big and burly and looks like he'd tank, but he actually has only average vitality and his gameplay revolves around him being able to use his bite move to recover health. This makes him completely worthless on robot-heavy levels. Magneto is a lot weaker than I would have expected the Master of Magnetism to be, with his one really good move being his magnetic crush - GREAT for locking down single targets - the rest of his moves are mediocre at best.
They did a good job at making everyone somewhat passable - you can literally take a party of just about anyone and plow through the game, though some set-ups will definately make things easier than others.
Yeah, Iron Man was my go-to guy in the first one, his Uppercut would shut down about anything out there.
In 2... meh.
I was disappointed that they removed the ability to run solo in this game - unless of course you killed off your 3 other teammates. I know they did this to play up the fusions, but what they really should have done was keep the option to run a mission solo, and any time you were in the field alone your Fusion would be replaced with an X-Treme.
I think I spent most of MUA 2 flying in the air spamming Storm's lightning attacks. Almost the exact same thing that I did in MUA 1.
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/06/29/marvel-ultimate-alliance-2-dlc-is-coming-back/
WHOA necro.
I'm glad I returned this game without wasting money on DLC. It was far inferior to the first one, and I didn't even like the first one.
What happened to the team who did X-Men Legends 2? That was one hell of a game!
The Raid
X-Men Legends was Raven I think, no idea what has happened to them since it came out.
Legends, Legends 2, and Ultimate Alliance 1 were all Raven Software I believe. Most recently they made Singularity which just came out.
Raven also made X-men origins and I believe the newest wolfenstein.
XBox Gamertag: ProfHydron
XBox Gamertag: ProfHydron
AND SHE WOULDN'T GIVE IT TO ME
Its not horrendous, but I'm so glad I got Sacred 2 for co-op over this.