![]() Other characters like Iron Man, Black Widow and Rocket are voiced by pretty accurate impressionists and will sound super familiar. The voice acting is pretty competent throughout, featuring performers like Yuri Lowenthal who plays Spider-Man here exactly as he did in Sony’s exclusive blockbuster, and Nolan North who returns as Deadpool. That being said, the writers do capture the personalities of the line-up, even making the smart decision to sideline some of the larger MCU players like Iron Man and Captain America to make characters like Luke Cage and Crystal feel more important. Environments aren’t greatly detailed, but most are iconic enough that you know where you are even without lashings of atmosphere. It does a decent job of juggling locales and characters, managing to include many, many more famous faces even beyond the impressive 36-character roster. ![]() The plot begins with the Guardians of the Galaxy falling foul of Ronan the Accuser and Proxima Midnight, and discovering that Thanos is hunting down the six Infinity Stones.įrom there you’ll move through various locations that will feel familiar to fans of pretty much any facet of the Marvel property, from the Raft super-prison to Xavier’s School for the Gifted, fighting off a bevy of pedigreed villains from Ultron and Kingpin to the Hand ninja clan, Dr Octopus and Loki. The newer iteration takes more apparent influences from the MCU, notably with voice performances, but it still remains thoroughly separate from the universe made famous by Hemsworth, Evans and Johannsen, et al.Īs in the previous titles, The Black Order throws a pile of A-, B- and C-list heroes into a big pot, adds a story Frankensteined together from various different sources, stirs in some wisecracks (roughly one every 3 and a half seconds) and let’s you get on with pounding stuff shitless while struggling to work out exactly who’s blasting who with a super-powered death ray at any given moment. ![]() The first game was released in 2006, and as such used earlier material for its source, mostly the comics and cartoons, and movies like X-Men. The same can be said for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, which follows on from a franchise first devised before Robert Downey Jr. Even Crystal Dynamics’ upcoming Avengers game is looking to avoid any direct connections to the MCU. Quite surprisingly, though, it has only made a few half-hearted forays into gaming, with Marvel preferring instead to create big standalone action games like Spider-Man. A cinematic universe with one foot submerged just deep enough in the source material that it continues to smell like it long after its sauntered off with a big bag of money over one shoulder, it has changed the way we view movies, comics and the often troubled crossovers betwixt. You’ve got to hand it to Marvel: very few entertainment properties in the last few decades have had quite the same impact as the MCU.
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