Marvel Ultimate Alliance

Passed the time when playing with friends.

The writing was over expository and there was some broken shit like Deadpool's entire kit, but I had fun with this. It's a fun tour through many major locales in the Marvel universe, and the cast of heroes you could play with was diverse and fun to use. On the downside, the gameplay is rather basic and doesn't really match the depth of, say, Diablo II.Although, for what it's worth, The game becomes more fun if you try to solo it with one or two characters. Makes you think much more strategically

Character-wise, this is what the MCU should have been but never will be.

Co-op almost always get a higher score than maybe they deserve, and I love ARPGS. That it also has superheroes and was before a time when games felt the need to favour the MCU characters (because they are known), so they could explore whatever story they wanted. Encourages some comic book knowledge with bonuses, action is solid. Could be a little deeper but I didn't care.

One or two steps too close to casual action, but the gameplay is rock solid, and attaching RPG mechanics to the costumes was a great choice (your yellow and blue wolverine will have a slightly different playstyle to your tanktop and jeans wolverine, for example). The only flaw for me was a personal disinterest in some of the level locations: they were either overdone for the series (vaguely futuristic military/industrial compounds), or outright annoying (Murderworld). Atlantis was cool though.