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As you move along from location to location on the 10-15 hour adventure, you collect more and more heroes to use on your quest for the stones. One minute you’ll be in space, battling Nebula, and the next you’ll be on The Raft, helping Spider-Man clear up his entire rogues gallery. While that might sound a little familiar to the overarching story in the on-screen Infinity Saga, this differentiates itself quite a bit by giving you a whirlwind whistle-stop tour through (almost) everything Marvel. It begins with the Guardians of the Galaxy and their encounter with the Black Order Thanos’ minions who’re out trying to collect the Infinity Stones for their despotic overlord. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 doesn’t follow the continuity from the previous games at all, instead taking place in an alternate universe one where things are a little more stylised than the hyper-serious past games. While Iron man looks and sounds like he’s modelled after Downey Jr, and Nick Fury’s a dead ringer for Samuel L Jackson, most of the other characters have their general aesthetics pulled from comics and cartoons – and they’ll sound familiar to those invested in Marvel’s animated output. It’s a little incongruous and could – as we’ve seen with Crystal Dynamics’ Avengers game – be jarring for those who’ve come to know Marvel characters purely because of the movies.

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It’s an all-new story that borrows heavily from the Infinity Gauntlet arc, blending styles from the cinematic universe, the comics, and TV shows.

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Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order is now available exclusively for Nintendo’s Switch, bringing the series into the current generation.

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Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk movies had just released, but the unified Marvel Cinematic Universe was just a plan – and Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark had yet to become the axis around which Marvel’s movie ambitions revolved. Back then, Marvel properties weren’t nearly as popular as they are now. There’s a certain amount of level grinding required if you play on the higher difficulties, but you can generally avoid repeating whole stages if you instead try to complete challenges along the way.It’s been very nearly ten years since the release of the last Marvel Ultimate Alliance game. The story campaign isn’t too long, especially on easy, but there’s a wide range of challenge levels that have particular requirements such as a time limit or the characters you can use.

There’s a pretence of depth in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 but while it’s entirely unconvincing it doesn’t feel disingenuous. There are also a number of customisation options, including collectible crystals that give you minor buffs and debuffs, an unlockable web of similar enhancements that apply across all characters, and bonuses depending on the make-up of your team and whether they’re similar in some way or have a shared history. The role-playing element is also incredibly simplistic and revolves around levelling up and unlocking new abilities, which in turn can be upgraded with collected items. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 (NS) – just mash the buttons and you’ll be all right Some of these are what you’d expect, such as Iron Man’s unibeam or Spider-Man’s webbing, while others are generic abilities like a tornado attack for Star-Lord, which, as far as we know, isn’t something he’s known for. You also gradually unlock a number of special moves which run on a recharging power meter. But everyone gets an ‘Extreme’ attack that takes ages to power up and various synergy moves depending on who the other characters are – although the window to activate these is frustratingly small for even experienced players. Basic combat amounts to nothing but a choice of light or heavy attack, or a jump attack if you’re feeling daring, and there are no combos as such.

Whether you’re playing with friends or not there are always at least four superheroes on-screen at once, but no matter which character you play as the controls work in the same way. There are around 30 playable characters in total (including a number of X-Men but no-one from the Fantastic Four – although they are part of planned DLC) but many more than that once you start to count non-playable cameos that range from Mysterio to Jessica Jones. That said, this isn’t really a direct sequel in the sense of a continuing narrative and while the plot nominally revolves around preventing Thanos and his lackeys (the Black Order of the subtitle) from obtaining the Infinity Stones the story is really just about jamming as many hero and villain cameos in as possible.