Ask About This ArticleMarvel Ultimate Alliance may look just to be another spin off for the psp that is exactly like the ps2 version, well your wrong. Fans of Legends will discover that developer Raven Software has gone out of its way to progress Ultimate Alliance into a new level of depth.
Doctor Doom has revives the Masters of Evil, who, by name alone, you should realize are not good people. In the opening CG cut-scened, designed by Blue Studios, Doom attacks the SHIELD HeliCarrier. Nick Fury calls down the heroes. Spider-Man, Captain America, Thor and Wolverine spring into action.
This short cut-scene shows Raven's attention to comic-book detail. The characters are perfectly portrayed. Spidey cracks wise and Thor displays both his power and his arrogance. When Captain America gives Wolverine an order, the Canuck replies coolly, "Stow it Boy Scout, I don't take orders from you." If you remember the beautiful cut-scenes from X-Men Legends II, just know that Ultimate Alliance's initial cut-scene is even better
Though the gameplay looks similar to X-Men Legends, some new kinks have been added. Captain America can control his shield in real time. That's right. He chucks his shield and it can bounce of walls on it sway to an enemy. As Palmisano explained, "Every character has a bunch of different powers like this. You launch the shield, hold down a button, and move the shield with the analogue stick."
In X-Men Legends II, you earned bonuses for assembling certain X-Men and given them specific costumes. The team bonuses are back, but in addition you now get an extra bonus for using the same characters through multiple missions. As Palmisano explained, "You can, at any point, make a team name and a team icon. They then at that point establish a reputation, not only for what they are doing in various points of the game, but how they work together. So then if you went into act 3 with no rep and no stats they wouldn't be as valuable to you."
That doesn't mean you are stuck with only four characters from start to finish. You can dynamically substitute characters and still be effective. You can even create a new team. But the longer you keep a group together, the better they will work as a unit. Makes sense.
As you play co-op online, thats right online. Although the psp version is still unclear to have online but i am sure they will have it. You can not only play with friends, but against them at the same time. Though you are trying to save the universe, you are also earning points. That point-earning is a competition. Think of it like showing up the other heroes.Though Activision isn't ready to give everything away, a couple of extra goodies were revealed during the demo. Comic books are hidden throughout the levels. Finding these unlock "Heroic Missions". These missions are separate from the main story and allow you to relive a moment from a hero's past. These are character-specific, so hopefully we have one for every playable character in the game.The PSP will also have an interesting extra. Raven couldn't reveal what this was, but Palmisano gave us a tantalizing hint: "One of the features we're not talking about, but it's going to be exciting. Vicarious Visions is developing the PSP version and are very ambitious. There might be some new PSP functionality coming along that will debut in the game. For more information on this or other games please go to Psp---Game.blogspot.com
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