On a well balanced team, you'll want to equip badges that help each member, like XP bonus, extra health and stamina, and the like. Many badges are great for a particular type of character, but not for others. I found this quite inferior to equipping individual characters with specific gear. You can equip up to three badges, which apply to your entire team. For example, defeating the last boss earns a really impressive set of badges. Badges can be dropped, or earned when you meet certain conditions. No longer do you pick up belts, gloves, or any other equipment, for that matter. Customization is one of my favorite aspects of any RPG, and the removal of these options from the series is questionable, at best.Īlso strangely absent from Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 is the gear mechanic. The first game allowed seven powers to choose from, if you count the extreme. There's no real customization at all one person's Iron Man will play almost exactly like everyone else's. You can easily maximize two powers, and at times, three out of the four powers will be maxed out for your level. What this means is, instead of choosing the best powers for your own individual playstyle, or that best suit the characters stats, each character is more vanilla. Each character has only four super powers to choose from. The "dumbing down" of the RPG elements is also a serious problem. When you compare this to the (arguably) overlong original game, MUA2 falls short. When the game was over, and the credits rolled, my boys and I looked at each other and said, "That's it?" Seven hours is short for any game, but especially short for an RPG. I'm not sure if replays due to death were included in that time, but we only had to reload from a checkpoint two times total. We played through the entire campaign in 7 hours and 3 minutes, according to the in-game timer. While it's more accessible as a result, it's also less appealing. The game's greatest problem is that it feels watered down, and over-simplified. There are a few aspects to the sequel that are superior, but for the most part, there is less to love here than in the original. ![]() Unfortunately, as far as gameplay is concerned, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, while still very good, does not live up to its predecessor.
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