Review Rewind: Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects for XBOX

Why you ask?

The game, while it's graphic engine seem to resemble that of Team EA Canada's Def-Jam:Vandetta, is nothing like it in playability. Sure the sudden rise in innovation from the creators team did have them include a story mode-- a certain story mode that was meant to teach you to play every character, untangle a story, and gives you scores of unlockable secrets and characters -- that, while a damn good idea, was included into the game too late with more holes than you can plug with your handy-man uncle's collection of retro sink plugs.

The game control leaves just about every character more floaty than the few playable characters were in the original game demo released sometime before. If that doesn't make any sense, we're on the same page.

From my understanding, games are supposed to improve when they go from demo stage to gold, not the other way around.

Grab Your Pitchforks

The characters are severely unbalanced to a point where I believe they chose those specific Marvel characters just to make fun of them. I mean, ELEKTRA? What the hell! Then Daredevil? If this is EA's idea of appealing to the moviegoers, they need to sit down and gag for two hours like the rest of us while staring at Ben Affleck and the spin-off from his little Marveldom that coulda-woulda but ultimately sucked.

Besides the choice of character flaws, you will know true fear when facing your second, though FIRST true opponent: Altered Storm. You will waste at least two hours trying to find this (insert five letter derogatory term for women) in steroids with a mocking battle setup against Wolverine. Just imagine for a second that this battle ready harlot is flying around with unblockable summon-ish lightning attacks with a guy whose regenerative capabilities are NOTHING compared to hers!

She is the hardest opponent you will come across in the entire game and that's on top of bad camera centering(though you do have control over the camera, it's somewhat locked at a certain pov).

Coup De Gras

The one-on-one feature is just as lacking. The only positives in this game come from the unlockables, some of which include audio-comics/film-ish things.

Graphics wise, I have to say I see some exceptional flaws. It looks like the entire game's graphical emphasis is placed on the IMPERFECTS than they are on Marvel characters. More often than not you will go gaga over the amount of lavishments given to these imperfects, from shiny leather to smoke trails that really, and I mean really, make you drool. But, as a wise man once said; it's not about graphics. If the game plays dirt poor like it does in Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects, no matter how positive your typical outlook, you will learn to loathe.

Ever hear/play/own a game called Drake of 99 Dragons? ...For your sake, I hope not.