Marvel Ultimate Alliance

I love this game, though it looks better on the bigger consoles, I believe that the handheld is where this game belongs. Great story huge roster of characters and one of my personal choices for the best game on the console

Marvel Ultimate Alliance for the PSP is a successful attempt at shrinking down the PC title to a handheld format. If you've never played MUA before, it's a licensed Marvel universe top-down RPG hack-and-slash. Think Diablo, but with Doombots. The MUA combat system is simple, but satisfying, with character customization to keep game-play engaging. The story is what you'd expect from a comic book game, (super-heroes unit to overcome a super-villain team-up), but the campaign and side-quests delve into plenty of Marvel lore offering loads of material. While surprisingly enjoyable, there are a few flaws with MUA for PSP. It's been roughly a decade since I've played the original game, and the graphics are a little dated. The PSP version suffers from having a crowded screen, and on such a small screen it's more of a problem than the PC or console versions. In a related matter, the controls are awkward, and there's no way to remap them. If you've played a lot of fighters or beat-em-ups ever button will feel wrong. For example, "X" as the light attack, rather than jump. This last one may be a bit nit-picky considering I'm playing this game in 2017, but having the online option and not being able to use it is annoying. Especially when a dialogue box prompting you to play online comes up every time you start the game! Overall, MUA for PSP is a great game for most action or RPG fans, and is quite cheap considering how difficult it can be to track down a copy. Mine came from this very seller (Lukie Game) and was used in very good condition. PSP players would be justifiably wary of ports to this system (Ultimate Alliance 2 is supposedly quite bad), but this may be the one exception to the rule.