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Binding: Video Game
EAN: 0013388210176
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Label: Capcom
Manufacturer: Capcom
Platform: PlayStation
Publisher: Capcom
Sales Rank: 13650
Studio: Capcom



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Decent translation to the PS1, fun overall.
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.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Justice Prevails!
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!


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - my three favorite marvel characters in one game=classic
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.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - best marvel capcom made
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


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - One of the best 2D fighters on the original Playstation
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.

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