I mean, this was going to be a video game, right? It would just be, “Me no like you now. Besides, I reckoned the game would do away with more of the unsavory aspects of the storyline, like Reed Richards and Tony Stark being war profiteers, Iron Man going full blown Red Skull/Doctor Doom in JMS’ Spider-Man, and Joss Weadon’s horrible tacked on ending that “resolved” the comic and eventually led to Captain America getting killed because people viewed him as the bad guy for standing up to a late 00’s equivalent to internment camps and egregious acts against the Constitution. Still, I liked the gameplay of the first and this promised to be more of the same just with an even worse storyline tacked on to it. In my opinion the only good thing that came out of Civil war was Fabian Nicieza’s Thunderbolts and Cable & Deadpool issues. Between DC’s gore-o-rama and Marvel’s ability to churn out crap and only crap unless it’s a Marvel Adventures issues has pretty much killed my love of comics save for classics. What do I read these days? I just collect trades of Jonah Hex, Booster Gold, and Blue Beetle. Civil War basically destroyed the last vestiges of respect and fond memories I have for Marvel Comics and this is coming from a guy who has the Captain America and the Avengers arcade cabinet in my living room, a Captain America Cookie Jar, and who can quote huge chunks of Roger Stern’s “Cap for President” story. My jaw dropped and I think i let out some profanity. Then, I learned they were going off the Civil War storyline for this game. In fact, Vicarious Visions are best known for making BAD licensed games, so this gave me serious pause. They’re also known for doing the horrible port of Doom 3 for the Xbox 360, and classics like That’s So Raven and the horrible DS Guitar Hero games. VV, you may remember did the Wii version of MUA1, which was widely panned. The first was that Vicarious Visions was doing the second game instead of Raven.
However as time passed, little deserved doubts crept into my head. As you can imagine, I was quite excited when they announced MUA2, at the time called Fusion. It didn’t win any awards from us, but I liked it enough to have fun with the review by having Deadpool do colour commentary with me. You know, I actually quite enjoyed the first Ultimate Alliance.
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