MARVEL VERSE CAPCOM 3: The Fate of I wish this was Street Fighter.

It should be mentioned first and foremost that watching Wolverine, The Hulk and Iron Man kick the ever-living shit out of Ryu, King Arthur and Akuma is bloody brilliant. I used the word "watching" on purpose, though, as at times this game really seems to play itself.

This can be a good or bad thing depending on your point of view. If you are of the Super Smash Bros. school of fighting then set the controls to simple and mash those buttons, but if your prefer a complex combo system style of fighting you might feel slightly cheated. There are now only three attack buttons instead of six and hyper combos are all bound to one button.

There are still combos to learn and some small amount of strategy in learning when to tag-team in your partners and which characters complement each other, but overall this is a tuned down fighting game. They make up for this with a damn nice art style and plenty of flash. There is so much happening on the screen at once that to anyone watching who did not know the game, it would look like a chaotic, epileptic seizure-inducing mess.

There is a method to it all and the bottom line is that it is fun. I found myself wanting to pick up Street Fighter 4 though after all that flash started to wear off...