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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (PSP) Review

October 20, 2018 davepoobond (DPB) Leave a comment

Developer: Raven Software | Publisher: Activision || Overall: 8.5/10

(This review is more just a compilation of my notes on the game as I never got around to making a full review about 10 years ago when I was playing it.)

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance is a hack n slash, beat-em-up action RPG. In the same vein as X-Men Legends II for PSP. Plays pretty much the same except its full of ridiculous cameos and super heroes I don’t really care about too much.

There are diverse levels with unique bosses. It is a lot more interesting than X-Men Legends II, but the graphics aren’t spectacular, it is about on par with it, even though it was a launch title. Loading is bearable and infinitely more improved, but still room to do better. Since its basically a port of a console game, it isn’t exactly optimized for the PSP to begin with.

It’ll hold over any marvel fan’s interest for at least a while since its shameless fan service allows you to play with a wide ranging amount of heroes and beat the crap out of all of the different supervillains. Only on PSP, there are 4 additional heroes and a couple of bonus gameplay modes. The additional heres are Ronin, Captain Marvel, Black Widow, and Hawkeye. There is online stats tracking while you are playing. PSP-specific community web site with leaderboards and other statistics to look at about how you play.

Story lacks any real substance as it seemingly borrows heavily on pre-gained knowledge about characters. If you don’t know shit about the heroes, you’re just going to get tired of seeing yet another new idiot in spandex. Th storyline is sort of interesting, though, and keeps the gameplay going.

You can play co-op through the whole story or a specific mission with a friend online or over ad hoc. The menu takes way too long to load to make it worth turning off auto-character management. There is good voice acting, and most characters are voiced. There is a “quiz machine” where you can test your comic book knowledge. There is also a training simulator that allows you to complete extra “comic book missions” to build up character’s levels and acquire a costume.

Throughout most of the game, you are just going to be pressing X over and over. There’s a weird sound bug that occurs when saving, and for some reason it needs to save two different files. Why couldn’t they just store it all in one? Rare bugs can make the game crash or act weird. It even froze my PSP.

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Squacklecast Episode 31 – “The Beach Sucks”

July 2, 2016 davepoobond (DPB) Leave a comment

This entry is part 31 of 38 in the series The Squacklecast

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Wow its been like 3 or 4 months since the last one? Well, here’s another SQUACKLECAST.

We talk about how much I hate having “fun” on the 4th of July weekend.

X-Men Apocalypse and Warcraft are the main topics otherwise.

Pixar’s Finding Dory is out, we haven’t seen it, but we talk about how hard it is for us to say which Pixar movies we actually really like for some reason. Who actually asked for a sequel to Finding Nemo anyway?

Clifford the Big Red Dog is also coming to the big screen.

Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich come up. We also talk about their careers.

We then talk about this Uno card game for the PS1, with this amazing opening movie.

I’m probably missing some things. ANYWAY! See ya next time!

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Squacklecast Episode 27 – “How to Eat Grilled Cheese”

July 25, 2015 davepoobond (DPB) 1 Comment

This entry is part 27 of 38 in the series The Squacklecast

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Wow! I don’t know who keeps making these Squacklecasts, but they keep getting made.

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We talk about ABC Family’s Harry Potter marathon a bit and which ones we like overall. Also we realize how we can’t remember what happens in which one or what they’re called.

Comic Con 2015 began and ended in a boring whimper considering Marvel was a no-show. Trailers from the convention are at Wired.

The current status of Marvel and how Ant-Man is or is not their current “peak.” Avengers 2 was basically Cameo: The Movie. The X-Men properties are discussed.

We talk about the DC properties which were arguably the most interesting part of this year’s Comic Con.

Movies about movies that didn’t get made — Superman Lives and pre-Lynch Dune.

Will Smith is Deadshot in the new Suicide Squad movie. Hopefully he’s more like Capt. James West from Wild Wild West:

Dave was mostly into the Garfield/Calvin and Hobbes types of comics instead of the Marvel/DC stuff.

Since Garfield likes lasagna, that was a segue into talking about food and Grilled Cheese. Billy doesn’t like Grilled Cheese because his only experience with it was eating it at a buffet.

Perfect Grilled Cheese on sourdough is as follows:

Awful wheat grilled cheese is this awful awful thing:

More random food talk about bacon and other things.

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Davepoobond’s Hate List for Celebrities (5 is average rating)

FRED 10/10, Bono 10/10, Owen Wilson 9/10, Jackie Chan 6/10

Melissa McCarthy 10/10, Julia Roberts 9/10, Drew Barrymore 8/10, Geena Davis 7/10, Cher 4/10

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Fuck you FRED. See you guys next time!

Dictionary

seeree

June 3, 2015 davepoobond Leave a comment

seeree – n. a classification of plot devices used in writing which the fiction (time travel/alternate dimensions) or things that do not actually exist within the fictional universe at hand (dreams/books) are used to lazily write-off any discontinuity or to retcon what you don’t like.

Ex. I’m not sure X-Men: Days of Future Past would have been as enjoyable if not for the seeree that was used to excise X-Men 3. None of that shit matters anymore!