A very fun an lengthy game
User Rating: 9.5 | Marvel: Ultimate Alliance X360
Marvel Ultimate Alliance is a game that satisfies any player looking for an action based RPG with a heavy emphasis on the action and slightly less on the RPG than most. While it is not necessarily the third game in the X-Men Legends series it definitely takes the same formula and improves it. Besides being next-gen and having better graphics and more playable characters, the game is much more accessible to those players who don't necessarily like the RPG formula of having to pick and choose which skill goes where. It is true that you have to do that in MUA, but the game is very forgiving when it comes to placing points in certain skills. For example, you can redistribute points without any penalty and you can do it as often and as much as you like. Similar games lock you into your choice, even if you later come to thinking it was a bad choice. MUA doesn't do that because you can constantly change your point placement. Also, a big improvement over the X-Men Legends II game is that there are way FEWER mutant powers to choose from for each mutant. In the legends games it was a daunting task to figure out which skill was actually worthwhile, and then on top of that you had to keep putting points in passive skills that you didn't actually get to use. MUA does away with having to spend your hard earned points on passive skills. Instead, every point you earn goes straight to a mutant power, so you can put the hurt on the bad guys that much sooner. There still are some passive power abilities, but they can be upgraded through an entirely different system, separate from your points. The game looks beautiful and is very easy to learn and jump right in to. Controlling your squad of mutants is a piece of cake and you can switch characters at any time in the game. If you were a fan at all of either X-Men Legends games or anything like Baldur's Gate, then you are going to like Marvel Ultimate Alliance even more. A definite buy. 
