What can i say? When it comes to Marvel characters, i’m a fan. It’s always good to see someone get it right, like the Iron Man movie and Hulk vs Wolverine cartoon to name a couple of recent successes.
The X-Men Legends series (which became the Marvel Ultimate Alliance series) has always been a treat for us Marvel readers. Even though the gameplay can get a bit mashy/sloppy, the extensive variety of team combinations and powers is easily worth the price of admission, not to mention their excellent storytelling and dialogue. With the September 15th release date right around the corner, i decided to take a closer look at the trailers for potential combo ideas. Here’s what i came up with:
1) What’s the most damage you can do to one guy? Usually in these games enemies stop registering damage once they die, and it’s a lot harder to perform lengthy sequences on bosses because they have hyper armor. My bet is on the fusion between Thor and Mr. Fantastic. It looks like a whirlwind launcher followed by one power slam, which will probably cause a lot more pain to a single target than the dispersion powers such as the fusion between Iron Man and Songbird. Plus Mr. Fantastic was an absolute monster in MUA1 – it’s always the characters you never suspect who end up dealing the most damage.
2) Iceman looks to be one of the more interesting setup characters in the game. His vignette trailer shows him freezing opponents, which can enable some nasty combos, especially if it works after a launcher. It’ll be interesting to freeze grunts and have Juggernaut run through them. If that prevents them from getting knocked away, maybe Juggernaut can rapidly stack up crazy amounts of damage.