Thor: God of Thunder Review
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Concerning Marvel UA 1&2 at the end...I recommend UA1 if you want a bit of a hack n slash RPG. UA2 is more of a straightforward beat em up, with less skills and equipment. I also recommend both in general.
I would say parents since its only parents of kids who like these characters that I have ever seen buy these type of games.Wuggy said:
I personally will rent it just for laughs someday.
Yeah, I liked the first one MUCH better than the second one. The sequel got rid of the RPG stuff I liked so much the first time around.Onyx Oblivion said:
Also, no Dr. Strange? Screw that.
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It's either that or a bragging rights thing. The producers want to have a video game to go with the movie because it's an action movie made from a comic book and that's what you're supposed to do.Vigilantis said:
Also this.Fr said:
They really should stop though, this kind of mindless crap can only hurt the industry.
Yeah I guess that makes sense. It's like what The Asylum does, if you don't know what that is, look it up. They make mock-ups of popular movie titles with low budget to make people accidentally buy their movie instead. Their mock up of Transformers 2 was actually better than the original though.Fr said:
You know this game is bad if someone recommends you to buy Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, and from what I heard, that game has glitches.
Also I like to add that it's better to buy the first Ultimate Alliance since you have a choice to play as other Marvel heroes, including Iron Man from Iron Man 2: The Game.
Also I like to add that it's better to buy the first Ultimate Alliance since you have a choice to play as other Marvel heroes, including Iron Man from Iron Man 2: The Game.
You just can't expect any quality from rushed games like this, but, eh, if you had fun with *some* of what was in Thor: The Cash-In, it sounds like a good buy once it hits the bargain rack.
What were the other gems?
What were the other gems?
Yes, movie tie ins. I suppose I should have been more specific.Canid117 said:Twilight.falls said:
Oh did you mean a movie tie in game?
Excellent review, despite (or because of? ;D) the painful Hammer jokes.
It's kind of a shame that the tie-in for Thor was typical movie tie-in fare - although I have actually played enjoyable movie tie-in games before, their reputation is by and large very well-deserved. For whatever faults Thor had as a movie, I thought its aesthetic and sheer ludicrous premise would have been particularly well-suited for an over-the-top, no-holds-barred, at-least-decently-enjoyable videogame.
Nearly 30 years after the terribad movie tie-in game [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(video_game)], we're only just now getting amazing license titles like the aforemention Arkham Asylum. Maybe in another 30 years we'll have good movie tie-ins, eh?
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It's kind of a shame that the tie-in for Thor was typical movie tie-in fare - although I have actually played enjoyable movie tie-in games before, their reputation is by and large very well-deserved. For whatever faults Thor had as a movie, I thought its aesthetic and sheer ludicrous premise would have been particularly well-suited for an over-the-top, no-holds-barred, at-least-decently-enjoyable videogame.
Nearly 30 years after the terribad movie tie-in game [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(video_game)], we're only just now getting amazing license titles like the aforemention Arkham Asylum. Maybe in another 30 years we'll have good movie tie-ins, eh?
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Plus, Sega did not develop the game, they only published it. Liquid Entertainment did the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions, with Red Fly and WayForward Technologies picking up the Wii and DS versions respectively. You can blame those companies for a bad game - all Sega did was basically say, "yes, we would like free money."Swifteye said:
Technically this is not a movie tie in game. It's based mostly on the comic book world/mythos, but in general on the entire Batman "universe".Canid117 said:Twilight.falls said:
Oh did you mean a movie tie in game?
Really, if you look at them, the Arkham Asylum Batman isn't even modeled on any of the movie versions:
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I mean, yeah, there's similarities because it's, y'know, BATMAN, but the game is NOT based solely on the movies, and doesn't really qualify, in my opinion, as a movie tie in. I suppose your mileage may vary, based on your own opinions.