Welcome to my article about my hands-on with Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, we played it at the post-E3 event in the Netherlands!
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, for me, this could be called a Musou game, which is my favorite genre among brawlers. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3’s hands-on was the first game we played at the post-E3 event and Lander and I joined hands to tackle the demo.
As I am very familiar with the genre, I can tell you that it plays very well. Upon starting the demo, we were able to pick our fighter, I went for Venom myself, a big fan of the anti-hero even though many call him a villain. Venom is quite an agile character to use and I was highly impressed by the “big” impact attacks Venom had.
Upon walking through the level in the demo, it was clear that the overall Marvel Universe feeling was very well conveyed, you did feel like it was more of an action brawler rather than a musou game, but mostly due to the lack of thousands of enemies at once. But more on that later. At all times, we had a team fighting off the Hand, the villains from the Iron Fist universe. A great show available on Netflix if you have not already binge-watched it!
The Hand as villains were mostly divided into several difficulty levels, fodder and not so fodder and then actually decent fighters. The fodder usually just took a few hits to be defeated but the “mini-bosses” if you can call them that, they needed multiple hits or strikes to take down. The trick here was to team up and we really went through the demo so incredibly fast because we knew what we had to do.
We went straight for the battles, always taking on the bigger enemies by group, not giving them any chance to regroup or even strike back. We basically used this technique the entire time and finished in record time. Even the Nintendo guide said we finished incredibly fast. He even asked if we had played the game before, quite the compliment as we really had not. Maybe our many years long experience at gaming did some influencing here, but we just clicked with the game. We knew what to do even without any prior experience.
Once it finished, it just left me there, hoping that was just part 1 we finished, but no, it turned out we finished the entire demo. It kept me wanting more. Much more. If I was so invested in this game after so little time. Sure, I love this genre, sure I love the Marvel universe, the blend between both, it was glorious.
As mentioned in a previous article of mine, the experience of playing this game actually raised the expectations and desire to play the full game, thankfully it is coming soon! At time of writing, just 3 weeks to go! 3 very long weeks… Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 is my game for the Summer.
