Marvel Super Heroes

Reviewed by: DeathDude

Positive: Faithful port of arcade game
Many characters
Quite a few different modes

Negative Points: No music
Keyboard reaction to move sets

Genre: Arcade

Size: 122 MB

Multiplayer: Hot seat

Requirements: Windows

Questionable Content: 13+ Violence

Editor rating: 4.0

Homepage: None

Download location: http://www.mydatabus.com/public/SpiDoL/z/MSHFinal.rar

What we have here is the case when things go strange in the marvel universe, for some reason or another or just too obviously display their superpowers and whatnot; the marvel heroes and villains decide they are going to fight each other. Now why they are doing so? I have no idea, obviously they have too much time on their hands if they are doing something like this, nevertheless by battling each other they somehow will become the champion of all the heroes and get all the glory and praise and everything else that goes along with all that. In Marvel Super Heroes, which is a close port from the arcade game, with some new additions character wise and such, you get a fighting game that has all that action you remember if you have played the game. Even if you have not you still get a very interesting game with your favorite marvel heroes or villains to play as. With many different characters, quite a few modes, there is quite a bit to see in this game.

There really was not much of a story for this game, as far as I can remember back when the arcade version came out, but really all you need to know is that these marvel characters are fighting against each other and you pick whichever character you wish to be. Battle against your many opponents and then you will challenge some of the top marvel villains. 

Graphically the game looks pretty much like the arcade version, everything down from the characters, to the different stages themselves, its pretty much a faithfully representation of the original, there was a bit of graphical hiccups though with some characters, when using different costumes, but that could have just been a problem with the video card. There are many different marvel characters you can choose to play in this game. Spider-Man, Wolverine, Iron Man, Captain America, Juggernaut, Hulk, Dr. Doom and so on, there is quite the variety and even some new additions from the original game that were never included initially but included in subsequent games like the Capcom Vs. SNK series for example. Therefore, it was good to see quite a bit of variety and if you remember some of the characters moves from the arcade game, you will be set. 

There are also different modes that you will be able to try by yourself or with a friend, such as just singles matches, or even team matches, where you can have 2 characters fighting against another 2 characters, it was good to see different modes being included besides the normal story mode and vs. modes.

It was unfortunate that there was no music in the game as this was a key aspect that was missing in this type of game, as for fighting games, the music is one of the key elements, without music it just seems a bit empty I find. As well, the keyboard reaction speed to different moves being inputted is not that great, compared to having a game controller, which is what the game was more designed to be played with. It still works fine with a keyboard but sometimes find doing certain moves just did not cut it on the keyboard that well.

Nevertheless, this was a fun game to try out, and was good to see that it kept up to the arcade version it was based on, so check out Marvel Super Heroes and see it for yourself.