Thursday, September 10, 2009

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 and Halo ODST?

Well with the end of September approaching two games are almost out that I'm looking forward to playing.  Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 will be based on the the Marvel Civil-War comic arc and will feature the time tested dungeon grind that we've become accustomed to from X-Men Legends and the first Marvel Ultimate Alliance.  Who doesn't love team ups of all sorts of Marvel Comic heros and/or villians?  I'm curious to see what the story line is and how the game plays.

The other game that the die hard Halo fan in me is looking forward to is non other than Halo ODST.  After playing various games on Xbox Live I've found myself always coming back to Halo 3.  The matchmaking system is still the best out there for Live and being able to party up easily with friends is a key feature that I wish other developers would learn from Bungie.  My only gripe with Halo 3 is that they essentially nerfed matchmaking a bit.  As the varience in ability was lessened it becomes much harder for one very good player to take on more than a few other players at once, something that was very possible in the first Halo.  Playing as non superhuman spartans wil change the game dynamic a fair amount and it should give the game a very different feel.  Hopefully I'll spend a good amount of time playing Halo ODST online with friends.  Updates and verdicts on the games to come soon.

1 comment:

piet said...

i'm looking forward to marvel ultimate alliance 2 -- the first one was a blast and how can you argue with a formula so full of amazing marvel characters? hopefully we can schedule some co-op action on xbox live.