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Repetitive and frustrating

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Marvel Nemesis was EA's turn to cash in on the Marvel superhero franchise. Spider-Man, Wolverine, Elektra, and many others go up against the Imperfects, a group of genetically-altered superhumans. There's also some kind of thinly scripted alien invasion story involved.

First, the good. Production values are spot on, with stylized artwork for the menus and good voice work. The Imperfects are an interesting bunch and each comes with a movie clip detailing their origin. Character models are nicely sculpted, although the camera is often too far away for you to notice.

Where Marvel Nemesis fails is that it's simply not much fun. This isn't Marvel vs. Capcom, it's a brawler/Powerstone hybrid. That in itself isn't a bad thing, but you have to work through an absolutely tedious story mode to unlock all the characters and extras. You'll waste time fighting wave after wave of generic alien enemies, only to reach ridiculously cheap bosses. The game's biased towards the Imperfects, who generally have wider-reaching and more damaging attacks. The AI isn't afraid to spam you with cheap shots when it gets the chance. Also littered across the stages are explosive background objects like oil drums and cars that can be picked up and thrown. They're useful but way too damaging, and can easily kill you when you're close to finishing a mission. Cue frustration.

Once story mode is finished, 2-player mode is supposed to be where the replay value lies. Only, there's not much to it. Not a lot of options to explore here. Levels aren't that interesting to play in, the simple controls don't hold much depth and strategy. Smash Bros. has strategy. This is closer to button-mashing.

Marvel Nemesis is a flawed game wrapped in very pretty packaging. Rent if you're absolutely curious, but there are better superhero titles to look into.

Great Game!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is awsome and you should definatly buy it for what ever console you have.

SIMPLY BAD 4 OUT OF 10

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When I was playing SNK VS. Capcom with a group of people we decided to play this game. We were appalled by it's bad gameplay. Unlike great fighters like Street Fighter, Soulcalibur, Dead or Alive, and Tekken, this game does a poor job of being a fighter. To start off the camera angle that this game uses is a terrible angle for fighters which made it confusing to jump on things to get to an opponent. There is also a lack of combat moves, so the game gets boring quickly. It has lacking graphics(I've seen better on the Gamecube than this), the control scheme is confusing, and the voice actors suck. If you want to play a fighter staring the Marvel heroes, go play X-Men VS. Street Fighter instead.

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