Product description
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Play as your favorite Marvel character: Wolverine, Spider-Man,
The Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man, Psylocke,
Shuma-Gorath, Blackheart, Juggernaut or Magneto. Power up with an
Infinity Gem - Grant your super hero healing power, super attacks
and increased strength.
From the Manufacturer
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This successor to Capcom's wildly popular X-Men allows you to go
one-on-one at home with the Marvel Super Heroes. Your super
heroes battle through rounds of competition facing off with Dr.
Doom and ultimately Thanos. Take control of the amazing Infinity
Gem system which grants super-powers such as healing extra
attacking strength and infinite super attacks. Master a variety
of fantastic attacks super moves and tons of multi-hit combos.
For comic book fanatics and fighting game warriors alike Marvel
Super Heroes is a must-play masterpiece!
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Review
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Marvel Super Heroes is a Street Fighter Alpha-style fighting
game that features characters from the classic Marvel Comics
lineup. Four characters (Psylocke, Wolverine, Juggernaut, and
Magneto) return from Capcom's previous comic-based fighter,
X-Men: Children of the Atom. New characters include Captain
America, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk, and more. It was an exciting
arcade game, but the PlayStation version lacks any real punch and
falls flat by comparison.
The game differs from the pack via its inclusion of gems that
litter the landscape. You can pick up the gems and use them on
command, resulting in brief power-ups to the character's speed,
power, life, etc. Other than that, it's just basic Street Fighter
action, complete with fireballs, dragon punches, and the like.
The arcade version was a great game and differed enough from the
Street Fighter and X-Men games to be entertaining. The
PlayStation version has virtually the same gameplay.
Graphically, MSH looks all right. The characters and backgrounds
are large and colorful. But the game also produces an awful lot
of slowdown, and it's missing quite a few frames of character and
background animation. The slowdown is even more apparent when
picking larger characters such as Juggernaut and Blackheart. The
music in MSH is fairly good and the speech is nice and crisp,
unlike the Saturn version, which produced tinny, annoying sound
effects.
The PlayStation version of MSH is tolerable, but it lost the
arcade game's soul in the translation. The missing frames and
slowdown don't help much, either. While I found the arcade game a
blast, this version just seemed dull and boring. Whether this can
be attributed to the translation itself or the fact that several,
mostly better, Capcom fighters have been released in arcades
since Marvel, I don't know. Rent it first and see if it's your
thing, and for all of you who own both a PlayStation and a
Saturn, you're slightly better off getting the Saturn version, as
it doesn't slow down as much, has better color, and more frames
of animation. --Jeff Gerstmann
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- Play as your favorite Marvel character: Wolverine, Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man, Psylocke, Shuma-Gorath, Blackheart, Juggernaut or Magneto. Power up with an Infinity Gem - Grant your super hero healing power, super attacks and increased strength..