Get in touch with your inner Superhero.
With a top-down view (and an ability to zoom in as well) like the first game, it offers a unique dungeon-style RPG game.
I love how you can level up and distribute the powers, but to be honest, I usually let the computer automatically do it since I seemed to level up every 15 minutes, and it gets tedious to manually level up 4 characters that you regularly use. Then when you use new characters and bring them up to pace, it can be a lot of work (although some people really enjoy this aspect of customizing).
It's a good game with cool artwork, smashable environments, and good voice acting (has Patrick Stewart EVER failed?). The story is classically comic, and goes to a lot of your favorite comic locales.
My pet peeves: can your team be anymore up your ass? I mean I can't tell you HOW many times I've been stuck in a corner or stuck on something because the other 3 are literally RIGHT ON TOP of you. Couldn't the developers have made them stand back a bit? I mean WHY do they have to be on my heels? It gets really annoying after a while. I would have liked to use all the X-Men but there's just too many of them. This isn't inherently bad I suppose, but I had no incentive to use anyone other than who I was leveling up with (with an exception of swapping a character here and there). Maybe some forced scenarios where you had to use other characters you normally wouldn't? Could I please carry more than 20 items? I mean really! Last but not least, the camera zoom is useless, when you're zoomed in close you can't see much around you, it tends to just center in on your character. I suppose it's not bad for a big battle, but makes it impossible to effectively navigate a map.
All in all, this was a great game, and I had a sense of satisfaction after completing it. For me it was pure nostalgia, being lost again in the world of Marvel, and running around like the superhero you always wanted to be. The RPG element of leveling the characters and choosing your items is superb, and a unique twist to seemingly pure comic-type hack and slash. There are some minor glitches/bugs, but nothing that takes away from solid game play.
Whether you're a die hard follower of comics or just a fan of Marvel, or RPGs, you don't want to miss this one.