Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Review
Marvel vs. Capcom is one of those cross over fighting franchises that make certain gamers salivate. You will have your choice of 3 characters to go up against another team of 3 characters. If you can master the moves, as well as master when to bring a different character in, you could find yourself a champion. Now as with most fighting games, there's not a whole lot to the story portion of the game. Yes, Galactus is trying to consume your world, and you're going to need to defeat all the fighters between you and him, but other than that, its basically knock out your opponent with skill.
Graphically this game looks great. In my opinion there will never be anything wrong with a 2D fighting game. You're also going to have quite a few of very intense attacks that run smoothly when executed. I have to give it to them, there isn't much, if any, jittery motions or graphical issues when trying to do so much on the screen. The backgrounds will give you a sense of nostalgia for the most part. I personally really like the Ghost 'n Goblins board.
The music is your standard affair fighting music. Sure there's some special flair for the characters and franchises represented, but you're probably not going to be paying any attention to it as you're going to be solely focused on your opponent.
The controls for this game will basically have you utilizing every button minus the select button. You'll notice that buttons for different characters will do different things, as well as combinations of buttons. The thing about fighting games is that there's always going to be different combinations of buttons to create some very devastating attacks, and if you can master those, which I have to say most of them aren't too difficult to get down, you're going to have quite a bit of fun with this game.
So as stated above this is a fighting game where you get to choose from several members from the Marvel Universe as well as the Capcom universe. Sure there were a ton of characters that I'm sure people wanted to see in the mix, but overall I think they did a pretty good job capturing some of the favorite characters from respected franchises. My personal favorite combo was Arthur (Ghost 'n Goblins), X-23 (Xmen), and Trish (Devil May Cry). Sure they aren't the heavy hitters of the bunch, but man can they deal out some punishment when you get their moves down. Personally I'm a button masher so I know that online competition is a bit out of my range, but facing off against friends is a lot of fun, and if you liking fighting games, and have a competitive streak, you'll find you've played more matches than you intended to. Take Jesse and I for example, we ended up playing 30+ matches, sadly we split them down the middle, so I couldn't show my awesome supremacy, but it was enjoyable every time.
So if you're looking for a solid fighting game that gives you more than kicks and punches, and has a cast of characters from different Capcom games as well as characters from the Marvel Universe, then this is the game you've got to try. I may not be the biggest fighting game person, but I have to say that I highly enjoyed this game, and also the fact is that if you button mash there's a good chance that you'll last a bit through a match/game. This game gets an 8.8 out of 10.
