Everything I hoped and more. A must have for fighting fans.
Story: Ummmm... well, ya... there isnt really any specific story to the game, as far as im aware of. Moving on.
Gameplay: I simply loved the gameplay. There is almost nothing bad. I however have 2 major complaints. 1. It's unbalanced. 2. The difficulty. If your an fighting game expert, the difficulty will be no problem. But even on the lowest difficulty, i can hardly beat Abyys. And yes im not that good at fighting games. But its greatly made up for by the great selection of characters. And i admit, at first i thought playing as Spider-Man or Captain America and most of Marvel characters would be silly, but i love playing as people like War Machine, Iron Man, and Venom. And there are great Capcom characters like Street Fighter characters and MegaMan characters. But one thing, I'm not that familiar with some Capcom characters, but thats just me XD. OK, getting over the characters, the combos are easy to pull of after getting used to it for a few minutes. And you can just smash down random buttons beat a round without any effort. Last complaint, I wouldve liked some online play.
SoundTrack: Well... um. I didnt hate the sound track. Ok, ya i did. The sound effects were great. But the bgm for the stages... i honestly hated. Most of the tracks are sung by the same person. Not to mention the lyrics are totally random and dont make much sense. The sound-track is the worst part of the game.
Graphics: Great, specials are greatly detailed, the character graphics are awesome, and i love a good sprite-based fighting game. The backgrounds also go without any complaints. However, today they wouldnt look very great compared to todays quality.
Nitpicks and other stuff: One thing, unlocking the characters. Its pretty boring to just play arcade mode over and over, unless you know the training mode trick, but its still pretty boring. The game is much more fun playing with friends. This is unrelated to the review, but the game is pretty hard to find. I was waiting months for this game to arrive used at a local gamestop. The game is also kind of expensive, I got it for 40$... used AND marked down due it being released on the XBox live arcade and PS3.
Final verdict, the gameplay is so amazing, it saves the rest of the game.
Overall:9/10
Story: errr 0/0
Gameplay: 10/10
SoundTrack: 4/10 (im being nice)
Graphics: 8.5/10