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Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order

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A 2019 team-based action RPG in which Marvel heroes fight the Black Order. It blends art styles from cartoons, comics, and the MCU, and builds combat around Extreme attacks, Synergy moves, and a Stagger system.

9 Interesting Facts About Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order

Interesting Facts (7)

  1. #001

    Venom's Extreme move turns him into a puddle of black symbiote ooze, from the middle of which he rises as a giant fanged mouth; the reviewer likened it to a scene from Jaws.

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  2. #002

    The first 2 games modeled the characters on their comic-book traits, whereas most of the cast in this third entry takes its look and voice from the MCU, with Wasp, Falcon and Thanos as the exceptions.

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  3. #003

    The frame rate only dipped once, when 4 Extreme attacks went off at the same time, which the reviewer found understandable given the chaos on screen.

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  4. #004

    XP is tracked per character, so switching heroes spreads it thinly across the roster and leaves characters underleveled; the reviewer had to commit to a select cast and left favorites such as Miles and Venom behind late in the game.

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  5. #005

    Through the final chapters the reviewer stayed with Wolverine, Dr. Strange, Storm, and Black Panther, partly because he liked their synergy and partly to keep them strong enough to avoid grinding.

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  6. #006

    Bigger enemies and mid-level bosses such as Mysterio, Nebula, and Bullseye carry a purple Stagger bar that has to be worn down with heavy attacks and high-Stagger abilities before a Synergy attack can stun them for extra damage.

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  7. #007

    The first level explains the Stagger system well, but it is not intuitive for drop-in players, so friends joining mid-mission could not work out why mashing buttons was getting them nowhere.

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Easter Eggs & References (1)

  1. #008
    Contains a major spoiler — show

    The 3 in the title notwithstanding, the game comes across as a reboot rather than a sequel: the first 2 titles are never referenced. Most telling is that no one questions how Loki got away with defying Odin.

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Deeper Meaning (1)

  1. #009

    Visual styles are drawn from several sources: a yellow-spandex Wolverine from the old cartoons, a Spider-Man lifted from the PS4 game, a modern-comic Wasp, and an MCU-style Rocket Raccoon doing a Bradley Cooper impression.

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