Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Review (Hattakie)
Truthfully, what isn't to love. It's a phenomenal game from a phenomenal point in the company's history. If we're being honest with ourselves, it's the best fighting game ever made. If you were to ask me, shit, it's the greatest video game ever made. While there may be the occasional gripe about the top tiers or the lack of viability at the bottom, or the players trapped in 2011 vowing genocide against the supporters of X-Factor as a mechanic, but, in truth, the game is perfect, at least, it is in my eyes. No other game gives you a defensive suite this in depth in ratio to the deepest offensive suite provided in any other fighting game. While other greats may yet beat the breakneck speeds of Marvel (Marvel 2, DBFZ, BBCF, GGAC#+R, etc.), none of them come close to what Marvel 3 offers in droves: variance. By having that deep offensive suite come not primarily from the systems themselves, but rather, how individual characters modify and interact with the system, Capcom has created the most dynamic video game ever made. Every match feels wholly unique, even against the same teams, against the same characters, and a decade later. The only other game to come close to UMVC3 for me in this aspect was Melee, but even then, different genre, and far more archaic. While the lack of rollback is one of the biggest continuous L's that Capcom takes, the core game that surrounds the shitty netcode is so phenomenal, so worth your time, that it entirely and completely makes up for it. In terms of performance, this will run on god damn anything released at around the time of its release some 15 years ago or later. You'd be hard stuck trying to find a device that this thing won't run on. There'e no excuse not to give it a try. And one more thing.No video game has ever taught me more about life than this one here. Seriously. Having played this game since I was 4 years old, I've learned pattern recognition, critical thinking, the ability to harness opinions based off of in depth research, and the ability to respectfully show disagreement with Vergil players. This game has made me smarter, more social, and a better person overall. A statement that you wouldn't believe was true if you heard the things I say while getting comboed by Zero, but, that's life. When's MAHVEL BABY?