The Ultimate Alliance - me and my boys

I’ve been playing quite a bit of Marvel Ultimate Alliance (on the PS3) over the last few months, and it’s been quite a revelation. Growing up with a Dragon 32 and a geek-dad for company there were quite a few games for me to play. Granted we had to have a chittering tape player to load them over a timespan usually reserved for intercontinental drift, and in which choosing the wrong cassette led to one of pa’s ‘I’ll teach you to spell’ games. Though quite usefully this taught me to hack so as to achieve top marks, with probably more effort involved. But the one factor in all these games were that they were unanimously one player enterprises.

I’ve found that playing ‘puter games with others is much more rewarding, especially when children no.1 and no.2 can put their father to shame. Hopefully this co-operative playing will stop them falling into the whole darkened-room-teen; we will see.

Up to 4 players can grab a controller - for which I’m grateful for wireless controllers - you stick together a team of your favourite Marvel heroes and bash away. Nothing too taxing, hence the 3 stars, but solidly executed with a good shelf life.

And I know it says PG on the tin, and then I’ve gone and given it a 5up rating but I’ve made the jump to playing PGs alongside the kids. At least that’s my excuse.

Enjoy

tag... review, 5up, 8up, gamer