Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Jump into the unparalleled deep storyline and intense gameplay -- unsurpassed in the fighting genre
• Compete in single-player, multiplayer and online modes for epic, head-to-head clashes
• Dozens of unlockables - Battle with all your might to unlock hundreds of rewards
• Online play for added challenge

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009351P2
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 8, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,375 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Marvel Nemesis delivers the definitive super-hero videogame allowing gamers to play as and against the world's greatest super heroes. The game features super heroes from the Marvel Universe as well as a new set of characters created through collaboration with EA and top comic-book industry talent. EA has called on the talent of top comic-book writers and concept artists, such as Jae Lee, for Marvel character and game design, as well as renowned artist, Paul Catling, among other industry talents, to create a new family of super heroes that will go face to face with an all-star line-up of Marvel characters for the ultimate showdown. Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects features more than a dozen fighters in fully interactive and destructible environments. Gamers have full control over the individual characters with each fighter having unique attributes and super powers that are true to their background adding more depth and fighting strategy to the game.

Features:

• Multiple Super Heroes: play as Spider-Man, Wolverine, or other legendary super heroes that span Marvel families, and battle a powerful new group of enemies, The Imperfects.
• Super Power Control: command an arsenal of powerful abilities unique to each super hero, and unleash them to devastating effect on foes.
• Your Environment is a Weapon: throw foes through walls, smash them with destructible objects, and use your surroundings to your advantage in massive interactive battles.
• Multiplayer Mayhem: fight to the last hero standing in epic, head-to-head clashes.

Product Description

Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects delivers the most authentic and cinematic Super Hero fighting experience ever seen in a video game, while remaining faithful to the legacy of these classic characters. Control a number of characters from Marvel's library of Super Hero families including Spider-Man, Wolverine, and Iron Man. Pummel and ultimately crush adversaries in fully interactive and highly destructible arenas and experience what it's like to fully posses each Hero's super powers.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Imperfect, but still a lot of fun., October 10, 2005

By 

Stephen M. Sturgeon (Indianapolis, IN United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects (Video Game)

This is a fun game, pure and simple. I had a hard time putting it down. However, it does have some shortcomings.

This can easily be compared to Super Smash Brothers in that the controls are very simplistic. Once you know how to control one character, you can control them all. For those who like the easy fighters like Smash Bros, this is ideal. But this may easily turn off the tournament fighter purists who are used to every character being completely different.

The game can play very cheaply. You could be wiping the floors with your opponent. You could have him on the ropes for the entire match, but with a few well-placed background objects being thrown at you, you've lost. This can be very frustrating, especially in story mode.

Story mode can be frustrating at points, but it's the kind of game where if you have any persistence at all, eventually you *will* win. There's not much to do once you do win the story mode and have unlocked everything. It's verses mode from there on out, which really kills replay value.

The new characters, the imperfects, are all well and good. They're a bit too powerful compared to the normal Marvel characters. But once unlocked they can still be a kick to play as. But in any case, they could have easily been dropped in order to include more of the Marvel favorites.

For a Teen rated game, this is rather edgy. Sure there's no blood or gore. But not having blood doesn't mean that some finishing moves aren't severe. Wolverine slashes mercilessly at a prone victim on the ground. That's one of the lighter finishing moves. Paragon actually has an impaling move far worse than that. But because there's no blood, it only receives a Teen.

Language doesn't get downright foul. But there are a few lighter swear words that are downright flippant. When Spiderman has become a role model lately due to the movies, and Storm has always been one of the more soft-spoken characters, the flippancy is entirely inappropriate.

Warning to the parents and tournament fighter purists aside, this game is fun. It's fast paced, the super powers are pulled off nicely and control is very intuitive. It's not the most solid game out there, but it's still fun enough to make it worth the pick up.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Marvel Nemesis certainly is "Imperfect", September 27, 2005

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Obviously "stark1039" (PA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects (Video Game)

The Marvel characters have lived in the fighting game genre for some time thanks to Capcom's excellent "versus" games however the rights to Marvel's properties have passed hands to EA who tried their hands at their own Marvel fighter.

And the results are finally in... unfortunately, though they delivered a half decent game they're largely disappointing.

Story: 2/5

The game's store is pretty sparse, and pretty generic an made alien scientist named Roekel has been living on the Earth using humans for genetic experiments and creating super powered beings in the process in attempt to make the ultimate, or in this case "perfect" warrior. These beta versions if you will on the way to creating the perfect warrior are aptly named "The Imperfects." Makes sense I suppose. Anyway Roekel sends out his Imperfects as well as an army of alien warriors to trash New York City in search of his escaped "Perfect" warrior. Though the voice acting is good, the story isn't really thrilling or important or long but it serves its purpose and gives us an explanation of EA's new Imperfect characters which for the most part borrow powers from the Marvel heroes themselves and though some of them are cool they're not very inspired. Their origin movies are probably the most entertaining part of the story mode.

Gameplay: 2/5

Well this is why you're here and unfortunately this is the area of the game with the most issues. First off EA decided to do things a little different from its Capcom predecessors. The game is on a full 3D plain with completely destructible environments. The first problem is the lack of a lock on feature, making targeting and attacking your enemy an annoyance. The game is also designed with a fairly unique combat system using only one attack button and the back triggers as move modifiers however this means all characters have the same moves and anyone could pull off all of the moves their first time playing. The combat system is about as deep as a puddle which is terrible if you're a fighting game fan but works fairly well at letting just anyone jump into the game and play it and possibly win without needing to be a pro. The problem is this also causes the game to get old very fast because once you master one character you've quite literally mastered all of them. Another issue is the game becomes reliant on the environment to win and just chucking debris at people will hurt them a lot more than it should, add to that almost everything is explosive. Winning can be as simple as just item spamming more than the other guy and fights quickly degenerate into games of catch. The characters also tend to be imbalanced, melee characters like Wolverine are at the mercy of more ranged characters like Iron Man and stronger characters can lift more items giving them more ammo to throw at their enemies, ammo that the weaker enemies can't catch.

The biggest issue however with the gameplay is no doubt the single player story mode. It's an essentially mindless brawler that has you play through short episodes with each character. You go around fighting generic alien baddies in massive hordes, occasionally doing some ulterior objective that involves destroying something and once in a while having a boss fight which is where the real fun lies. The gameplay is repetitive and as a beat'em up it's mediocre at best. The game should've only worried about the versus mode and its mechanics instead of bothering with the mediocre story mode. What makes it worse is you start with very few characters unlocked in the versus mode so the frustration of story mode is a necessary woe.

A second player or more in story mode and four player support in versus could've really saved the gameplay in this game. It has a Power Stone-esque feel that screams for multiple players and would've been a great party game. As it stands its simply mediocre in both single and multi-player modes and not worth more than $20.

Graphic: 4/5

This is where the game really shines. The dark and moody graphics really give the characters some attitude. The characters and backgrounds are both very detailed and the metallic shines of things like Iron Man's armor just looks pretty. The animations are spot on and give each character a different mood, seeing characters like Spider-Man jump around is particularly fun. If there's one thing this game does right is you really feel like you are your favorite super heroes although though the game is literally more fun to watch than it is play. The frantic pace and explosive battles are a beautiful thing to behold. I would have given graphics a five out of five however EA proves once again that it's not up to the task of actually making a polished game and there are several graphical glitches and other bugs that you will no doubt notice at least once or twice as you play through the game. It's minor but it's there and it's annoying.

Sound: 5/5

Sound is there and it does what its supposed to do. The operatic themes set the dark and epic mood of the clashing titans though you'll rarely ever hear it over the grunting and the explosions. The sound effects are spot on from character to character and the voice acting is surprisingly well done with no complaints from me except for a few corny lines that are to be expected in a fighting game.

Overall:

I would not recommend this game to a fighting game fan because it's simply too shallow and it's as the fighting game elite calls, "A button masher." I would however recommend it to comic book fans who want to experience the thrill of battling as their favorite heroes but the game is flawed so don't mortgage your house to purchase Marvel Nemesis.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Marvel-ous!, March 4, 2006

By 

Beaker (Rochester,NY) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects (Video Game)

(...)I love this game! It's not perfect but it is a heck of a lot of fun. The grapics are really good. The characters are done pretty well (except storm...i hate her in this game). The bonus movies you can unlock are pretty cool . I do agree that some different characters would have been better but hopefully a sequel will come out and blow this one away. All in all...get this game.