MARVEL: ULTIMATE ALLIANCE 2
A top-down isometric hack’n’slash game following the OG Xbox’s brilliant X-Men
Legends and the first Marvel Ultimate Alliance, this one was ported to Xbox One in
2016 and it’s still one of our favourite couch co-op games in a dwindling pool of
such things. There’s a wide choice of Marvel heroes to choose from, including Iron
Man, Captain America, Ms Marvel, Carnage, Psylocke, Storm, Wolverine, Spider-
Man and more, all with unique powers plus a ‘fusion’ team-up power between two
heroes, as you fight in teams of four. Following the Civil War comic book story arc
(this was well before the MCU got going), you get to choose early on whether to
side with Cap or Tony. We need more of this sort of thing.
SPIDER-MAN: WEB OF SHADOWS
That other console might have an exclusive on his latest game (boo!), but back
in the 360 days, Activision’s Marvel licence was doing Spider-Man proud. The
Amazing Spider-Man games, roughly based on those movies, were decent, but
our favourite has to be 2009’s Web Of Shadows. Swinging around an open-world
New York, you battle villains and henchmen and team up with Luke Cage, Moon
Knight and Wolverine. You can also choose to play as Venom-style symbiote Black
Spidey, and if you’re back in black, you can summon the help of villains Electro,
Rhino, Vulture and Black Cat. Edge Of Time, which features Spider-Man 2099
Miguel O’Hara in a time-jumping plot, is also worth an honorary mention.
LEGO MARVEL SUPER HEROES
We’d love a good Hulk game, but there hasn’t ever
been one. So we’ll settle for Bruce Banner’s hilarious
LEGO transformation instead. Traveller’s Tales has
done a lot of great Marvel and DC LEGO games, but
we’d plump for this one – mainly because back in
2013 OXM completed it, got every gold brick and
every character and had an absolute blast doing so.
A huge New York City made of LEGO never got boring
in Free Mode – though the story missions could be
a tad repetitive. And there were just so, so, so many
characters available to unlock and play as (if they
weren’t in this game, they pretty much were never in
a Marvel comic), and all those brilliant LEGO ‘Stan Lee
in peril’ missions, too.MARVEL VS CAPCOM: INFINITE
Despite this long-running series pitching Marvel’s
best and boldest against some decidedly iffy
characters from Capcom’s games (Viewtiful Joe...
wait, what?), this latest tag-based fighter looks
amazing, has furiously fast gameplay and gives you a
large roster of Marvel guys to fight as. Captains Marvel
and America, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Thor, Thanos,
Rocket, Gamora, Venom and more. On the Capcom
side of things, these superheroes get to fight Chun-
Li, Chris Redfield and... wait for it... Arthur from Ghosts
’N’ Goblins. The last couple of Avengers movies would
have been very different had the team simply called
up Mike Haggar from Final Fight and Strider Hiryu.
Yeah, we’re not sure who he is either.More Xbox news at gamesradar.com/oxm THE OFFICIAL XBOX MAGAZINE 109extra