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Marvel Super Heroes

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Don't you remember the times about 7 or so years ago before the vs. games like X-Men Vs. Street Fighter or Marvel Super Heroes Vs. Street Fighter were out, when you were at your local mall's arcade room, and you spent so much time and needed money on this one game everyone was lining up to play, you kept winning and no one could beat you, you had a blast and you ruled the arcade, you used the Amazing Spider-Man, or Good Ol' Stars and Stripes himself, Captain America, and maybe a little Incredible Hulk was throw in just to show off your skills with multiple players, and you used the Infamouse Yellow, Blue, Green, and all other Gems you could get your hands on to build Speed, Strength, Power, Defence and pretty much eveything else with your character! Well I do, and I was so stoked when it came out, and now you can bring those great feelings back with the PSX Version of this classic fighter from Capcom!


Gameplay: Almost arcade perfect with minimal slowdowns, barely noticeable, and you can still pull off everything in here that was possible in the arcade version.

Sound: Perfect, unmuffled voices that match perfectly to all characters, and music is still here(and still rules)with no remixes(Thank God)! Music plays just like you would hear it in the arcade!

Graphics: Great considering the Ram limitations of the PSX(like that was a problem for this game in the 1st place), and they were done with POLYGONS, yes, POLYGONS!

Characters: You get a line up of the following characters:
1. Spider-Man (My favorite! "Maximum Spider!")

2. Captain America ("Justice Will Prevail")

3. The Incredible Hulk (What's to say, he's a "Monster" hahahahahaha...sorry.)

4. Magneto (He rules and can pull off great combos!)

5. Wolverine (The cheap one)

6. Juggernaut (He's huge and probably deals more damage than anyone!)

7. Iron Man (With the Infamouse "Proton Cannon!")

8. Blackheart (A good and Cheep caharacter, but not as much as Wolvie.)

9. Psylocke (One of my favorite X-men, and overall choice over Wolvie, to bad Gambit wasn't included.)

10. Shuma-Gorath (Not used by me, but still deals damage needed to prevail in this game.)

Over-All: If I could, a 9.3/10.0, but I can't, so 4 out of 5, the reason being, could have been one point better if it weren't for the PSX limitations, but man, that definetly didn't stop me from getting it AT ALL! GET IT IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT!!

Thank's to Amazon.com for posting this review and YOU for reading it!

I still remember when I first bought this game back in 1997. It was when I first got my PS and I wasn't disappointed.

The graphics were pretty crisp and clear and it had a nice little selection of playable characters including Spiderman, Iron Man, The Hulk, Psylocke, Wolverine and others. For those who played Marvel vs. Capcom 2 before this one, the movement may feel a little slow to you. However, this was the first of the Marvel vs. Capcom style games so don't expect it to be as good as MVC2.

The default controls for this game are the easiest to work with of any of the Marvel titles. You'll find it easy to learn and it fits the PS controller perfectly. Air combos can be pulled off easily but it may take a while for some to learn how to do them.

On this game you'll find that the characters hyper combos are much more powerful than they are on MVC2. However, since this was the first of these type of fighter games, the characters have less moves to execute. The thing that really separates this game from all of the others is the Gems. There are 6 Gems that you may use during battle and different ones have different effects on certain characters. For example when Juggernaut uses the space gem, he turns silver and gains super armor. When Psylocke uses the Power gems she creates 3 copies of herself so then it's like fighting 3 of them at once. The final boss on this game is Thanos. He's better than the boss on the other Marvel titles because he's actually a challenge. He automatically starts the match with all 6 gems and he also has 6 different hyper combos he can do with each gem. Also this game actually has endings for the characters and the music is superior to all of the other titles except for Marvel vs. Street Fighter.

I recommend you buy this game if you can find it for a reasonable price. You won't be disappointed. It may seem outdated for those who played MVC2 before playing this but it's still enjoyable.

Marvel Superheroes was another game that came out of the post-Street Fighter 2 blaze of glory days from Capcom. It came out near the same time as the Darkstalkers series and the Street Fighter Alpha series, and not surprisingly, there are a number of similarities between all those games, especially in terms of graphics.

This game plays like a slightly hyper version of Street Fighter with a few twists. The wahoo-super jumps allowed to you go a good 50 scale feet up in the air and do all kinds of stuff while up there, and the super moves were similar to those in Street Fighter Alpha, although graphically more flashy. The game came included with a number of "gems" you could collect and activate during the game for minor bonuses.

The fun part, though, was simply being able to pick Marvel characters (as they appeared in the mid-90s anyway; as they kept using those sprites for years and years they started looking more and more dated) in a good fighting game.

The game comes with a few unfortunate minor nitpicks. 1) A the follow-up to X-men: Children of the Atom, the roster was surprisingly sparse. Only four characters return from X-men, two characters are bosses (Dr. Doom and Thanos), two characters are really quite obscure (Blackheart and Shuma-Gorath) and that means that really only a handful of new characters are added to the game: Spider-man, Hulk, Captain America and Iron Man. A broader selection of characters would have been nice. If we had all the Marvel characters that were later to feature in Marvel vs. Capcom 2, that would have been *WONDERFUL*. 2) The Playstation struggles with ports of these types of games, really. This one isn't bad, but there are some notable slowdowns while playing. Some animation frames are missing too, but you've gotta be looking pretty hard to spot those, for the most part.

Marvel Super Heroes, Capcom and Marvel's 1995 follow-up to 1994's X-men: Children of the Atom, is basically another clone of their groundbreaking Street Fighter II fighting engine. Overall a bunch of elements come together with this game to make a fun and enjoyable "beat `em up" game.

THE FIGHTING ENGINE:

Again, this is basically another "Street Fighter" clone, with different characters, etc. The reliable Street Fighter engine, while repetitive is still fun. The game level difficulty is "just right." It's easy to beat the game but still SOMEWHAT challenging but at the same time not difficult to the point where it frustrates. Like a good Street Fighter clone, combatants can duke it out as well toss a fireballs and beams and other assorted weapons at each other.

THE STORY:

Marvel Super Heroes' game storyline is roughly based upon the Marvel Comics "Infinity Gems/Infinity War" storyline where 10 of Earth's greatest heroes (and villains) seek to recover (or steal) the all-powerful Infinity Gems from the Evil Thanos of Titan, who is bent on destroying the universe with their power.

THE FIGHTERS:

You can choose from these following Marvel Super Heroes (and Villains):

1. Wolverine (of X-men fame)

2. Spider-Man (of Spider-Man fame)

3. The Incredible Hulk (of Hulk fame)

4. Captain America (of Avengers fame)

5. Iron Man (ditto)

6. Psylocke (from X-men)

7. Shuma-Gorath (noted Marvel Universe villain)

8. Blackheart (ditto)

9. Juggernaut (of X-men fame)

10. Magneto (ditto)

GAME MODES:

This is a straight-forward game with two modes: Arcade (you vs. the computer for 8 battles) and Vs. (you vs. a friend).

WHAT SETS THIS GAME APART:

The one thing that DOES set this game apart from its "Street Fighter" clone brethren is the integration of the Infinity Gems into actual game play. Through each fight stage (8 altogether) your character fights to recover a single Infinity Gem from each opponent. The gems can be used in each fight to "power-up" your fighter.

THE VERDICT:

Overall, though this game is dated, it is still quite fun. If you're into Marvel comics you'll enjoy the storyline as well as the action of the game. The Marvel/Capcom line did evolve from here with 4 other releases (with more on the way) including: X-men vs. Street Fighter, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter and the Marvel vs. Capcom series of games.

In all though, this game is still worth the playtime.

Highly Recommended

I bought this game and I thought this game was so cool. The characters are so detailed and the selection is not bad. It has everyone that is mostly liked. Captain America is the best in the Marvel Universe and in this game.

Games a bit slow, music/sound effect was great, but the animation was X-cellent!!!:) Psylocke is the best character of them all!!!:)

This is a great beat-em-up with a fun twist on the usual engine; this being that your new super-powers and infinity gems!
The characters are selected from the most fighter-friendly gallery of Marvel, this including the little mentioned Blackheart, and the overly mentioned Spider-Man.
Also fun, is that in this game you can fly (certain characters) or at least jump high enough to make your enemies dizzy. Infact, ariel combat is probably the best part of this game; especially after watching movies like Hero or Advent Children.

The characters are suprisingly well-balanced, and fun (even Captain America, whom I'm going to hack to become "Comrade Canada" at some point, once he no longer amuses me...) And the gameplay is a good precurser to the Smash-Bros style fighter.
Infact, the game reminds me a lot of Smash Bros.
Infact, if you could throw people off-screen, I'd say it WAS Smash Bros, with Marvel chars.
Hmm.

Until next time:

Justice Prevaiils!

Ironman, Doctor Doom and Magneto, in one game, all 3 playable(doom you need a code for, but still), both awesome.

sure, this option is also availabe in the newest installment to the X-Men Legends series(Magneto and Ironman). but in order to get Tony Stark you have to make it four fifths of the way through the game until you can play as him.

this game is, without a doubt, a classic among the 2D fighters. even up there with the first two Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II.

why they bothered with Psylocke, i'll never know. they could have put, say, Sabretooth in...or even Thor.

i've played all the capcom maevel games and this is the best the hulk is actually green .not pink or grey but green like he is suposed to be.the rounds go fast

''This game is with out a doubt one of capcom's most relaible product's and it was a pelsure to test it out. The charter design is extremly sleek and it's challnge to beat this game. I strongly recomend this game it's one of the best fighting games of all time buy it!''