Marvel: Ultimate Alliance

 PlayStation 2
Metascore
81

Generally favorable reviews - based on 29 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 29
  3. Negative: 0 out of 29
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  1. The Sydney Morning Herald
    70
    Some locations are dreary trudges through dull space-station corridors, but others show more imagination, such as giant pinball tables and underwater in Atlantis.
  2. 1UP
    70
    More than enough fun to last through the main story -- especially if you bring a couple friends -- but whether you'll be returning to it again and again over the course of months is dependent largely on your superhero obsession and tolerance for repetition.
  3. Official Playstation 2 Magazine UK
    60
    Decent comic book effort which certainly captures the Marvel spirit. Unlikely to become as revered as the icons that star in it, though. [Christmas 2006, p.97]
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#25 Best PS2 Game of 2006
66
#66 Most Discussed PS2 Game of 2006
28
#28 Most Shared PS2 Game of 2006

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User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 54 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 37 out of 54
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 54
  3. Negative: 3 out of 54
  1. MarvelFTW
    May 2, 2018
    10
    This is one of the top 3 best Marvel games ever created! It's so good! The story and the amount of playable characters in this game is justThis is one of the top 3 best Marvel games ever created! It's so good! The story and the amount of playable characters in this game is just mind blowing!… Full Review »
  2. MiguelNeto
    Dec 31, 2016
    9
    Marvel: Ultimate Alliance sempre me deu ótimas lembraças, foi o primeiro jogo que eu zerei no Playstation 2, eu amava esse jogo, tinha muitosMarvel: Ultimate Alliance sempre me deu ótimas lembraças, foi o primeiro jogo que eu zerei no Playstation 2, eu amava esse jogo, tinha muitos personagens, eu adorava jogar com com Wolverine e Doutor Estranho, tinha muito viloes, cada fase tinha o grande mestre, muitas fases, bons graficos, boa jogabilidade (pelo menos na época eu achava, tem que ver agora), a trilha sonora é muito boa, a dificuldade é razoavel, acredito que qualquer um pode zerar esse, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance é um dos melhores jogos de super-heroi. Nota 9.2… Full Review »
  3. SuperkenGaming
    Jul 30, 2016
    8
    Marvel Ultimate Alliance
    Great Potential
    Marvel Ultimate Alliance is a dungeon crawler beat em up where you play as your choice of 4 marvels    Marvel Ultimate Alliance
    Great Potential
    Marvel Ultimate Alliance is a dungeon crawler beat em up where you play as your choice of 4 marvels heroes, or a mix with online or local co-op out of 25 different characters to be unlocked with collectibles , secrets and story progression.
    You team up of course to stop doom from doing his usually doom thing of trying to take over the world…
    your journey to stop him will take your characters to a variety of locations like Atlantis and asguard…
    unfortunately while the scenery does change at a decent pace, the gameplay doesn’t…
    This game is a monotonous and ridiculously long 17 hours…
    During this 17 hours you do the dungeon crawl thing of just killing everything for fairly minimal loot with very much welcomed but too thinly spread out puzzle and platforming sections …
    Bosses will drop rings for stat boosts, but that’s about it…
    There no real incentive to explore or even defeat all enemies other than unlocking new characters as leveling up doesn’t seem too significant... and if you have your favorite 4 unlocked, why even bother finding these hidden figures…
    As you level up your stats unnoticeably increase and you unlock new moves that you can assign to a button command.. you can also unlock suits by using characters or completing a comic mission hidden throughout the world…
    These optional comic missions tell the story of one individual character to give more insight on them to new fans and hit that nostalgia button of existing fans of characters.. And as stated already, completing these missions successfully will unlock a new suit for your character... and thankfully these suits are not just skins... they all have their own special perks which will actually give you a hard time choosing from… and you can upgrade these perks with the coins that enemies drop.. but again it doesn’t really feel too significant….
    Combat in this game is fairly basic, but characters do all handle and feel unique, some can fly, some have projectiles, some are straight up brutes… if you get too bored, which you definitely will, you can switch out your team at any time when you run into a save point…
    there’s also over 17 boss battles and mini boss battles in this game… but are essentially either a straight up beat em up brawl or dodge attacks and do a quick time event…. Which are surprisingly some of the more better boss fights as they throw in a splash of variety… but really aren’t that great and don’t require any real strategy…
    While Marvel Ultimate Alliance is a great love letter to the marvel fans, packed with material that even I can appreciate while not being a marvel fan.. I feel like the game drags on and keeps you in its lackluster locations far too long, ultimately making this game feel like a drag...
    That being said, if you’re a marvel fan I still believe this game is worth your money
    I give Marvel Ultimate Alliance
    a 7.5/10    … Full Review »
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