Super Hero Squad
- Marvel Super Hero Squad contain 20 playable caricatured heroes and villains from the Marvel universe.
- Whether your squad is fighting through six extensive campaigns in adventure mode with up to 2 players, or involve in intense action with up to 4 players in battle mode, it will be a fight to the finish.
- Save the city, or destroy it. With the ability to play as heroes or villains, the choice is yours. Mix and match heroes and villains in your squad and use their own unique powers for good or for evil.
- Smash, bash and zap your opponents. Create your own combos using the unique powers of each Marvel character. Use the Wii Remote to swirl up a storm or flick a web as you become your favorite superhero or villain.
- Watch out for seemingly ordinary elements of the environment because there’s more than meets the eye.
Product Description
Welcome to Super Hero City! Hero up! Assemble your squad and fight your way to victory to save the citizens of Super Hero City from evil schemes of Dr. Doom and the Lethal Legion in this multi-player adventure game inspired by the action-packed animated Marvel animated series, Super Hero Squad! Fight through campaigns full of adventure or wage an all-out battle in the streets of dynamic environments as you mix and match Super Heroes and Villains with their own uniqu… More >>
Tags: Marvel Super Hero Squad, Super Hero Squad, THQ
Nintendo Wii | ed2yp79 2009/11/03
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By Dial M, 2009/11/03 @ 8:19 am
Pros: You get to play as the Superhero Squad characters!
Cons: Everything else!
1)Obnoxious level design.
2)Irritating controls (as always with the Wii)
3)Camera work courtesy of the blind.
etc…etc…etc
How do companies release a game this broken!
My son and I were very excited when we heard they were releasing this game. We collect the characters and watch the TV show and we are planning his Superhero Squad Birthday party for next month.
After playing the game for about 2 hours, my son turns to me and asks in a frustrating tone, “Daddy, why is this game so stupid?”
I believe I am the stupid one for once again being burned by a company that only cares about the almighty dollar and has standards lower than my 6 year old.
Please don’t buy this game. They took my $[...] dollars, don’t give them yours.
Rating: 2 / 5
By fanboy, 2009/11/03 @ 11:14 am
Marvel games on wii are a given PASS. Every one of them become more annoying as you play. Controls and combinations on superhero squad are just ridiculous. How can anyone think this is a fun game? Maybe if the price was below $20 it would be somewhat justified. ~$40 for this is a ripoff!
Don’t even bother renting it.
Rating: 1 / 5
By V. Moua, 2009/11/03 @ 11:41 am
Okay I see alot of bad reviews from adults who expect this game to be good, but this is a kids game, and any kid who played this game loves it. I bought it for my 5 year old son and it’s one of his favorite game on the Wii. If you’re an adult who’s buying this game and are expecting a mature story/gameplay, than you should not buy this game, it’s made for kids and should only be played by kids. I play this with my son and my only issue is the camera needs work, other than that it’s an average kids game
Rating: 4 / 5
By Derek J. Moore, 2009/11/03 @ 12:50 pm
Good game but you have to read the instructions.
While I’m not the biggest fan of the subject matter, the game was a lot of fun and I was able to see past it. The story in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1 or 2 was better .. but the game play was a little more fun in this.
The hardest part is learning the controls. Once you learn the basic structure of them, you can figure stuff out.
But you should learn the controls BEFORE you start game play. So practice in Battle mode first. Initially in Training mode of Battle mode, I was horrible. And I would rate myself as a pretty good Super Smash player. A is regular attack, B is ranged/other attack.
Here’s the tricky part that I didn’t get at first. Tapping forward (the direction you’re facing) and hitting A or B does something completely different. Tapping away and hitting A or B does something completely different etc..
Example:
Iron Man
A is Punch
B is Repulsors. Both are pretty weak.
A and Tap Forward is charge/dash attack
A and Tap Backward is uppercut
B and Tap Forward is chest Beam attack… I forget what back does.
There’s a combo attack. This part is a little annoying because involves nunchuck or wii-mote movement. And they’re different for each character.
Iron Man
A, A, A, Nunchuck move = firing rockets from his chest
B, B, B, Wii-mote move = firing super beam
Other things happen if you do the punch combo and a wii-mote and vice versa.
Some characters require a different combo to activate things.. mainly because their moves take too long I think. This is all in the instructions, it just doesn’t give a lot of details.
Thor is A, A, A for the punch combo and B, A, B for the alternate combo (and then wii-mote or nunchuck)
Tap back and B is hammer throw
Tap forward and HOLD B is hammer smash… greats a small explosion.. good for lots of doombots.
Doing nothing is a block, or backing up.
Once you learn the minor things like this… it seems a lot until you get used to it. Then I found it to be more fun than Marvel Alliance because you had to actually used different strategies instead of punch hit upgrade punch hit blast upgrade.
There are other sequences where it has you move the wii-mote to the left, right or whatever to dodge a meteor or something.. those are fine with wii-motion. Using wii-motion in the main game seems a little needless.. but you can get by fine without it.
2 Main issues with the game.
1.) The levels are so looooooong. You can’t save in the middle until you beat it. And if you aren’t paying attention to your life (getting more life is easy if you pay attention) and are just having fun, you die and go back to the last starting point (not the beginning of the level fortunately) but that can be annoying. This happened… I didn’t mind because i find the game to be fun.
2.) The Adventure game has the option of aiming where you’re shooting. It doesn’t work unless you’re trying to shoot a shield generator. I don’t know exactly how to get it to just go the way you’re facing.. (like it does in battle mode) .. but using C makes you lock onto a character.. and I think punching does something too. I try to keep the remote cursor OFF the screen so it doesn’t get in the way because even when you’re pointing at the bad guy and shoot your laser, you probably won’t hit him. So most of the time this isn’t an issue.
At first when I started playing and hadn’t figured the stuff out, I somewhat regretted buying it. But after I got the hang of it, I found it rather easy but still fun and still slightly challenging. I like the game play in adventure mode. Your allies actually help you. You can go a lot of places and it’s not some giant maze where you backtrack all the time. I’m also impressed/surprised with what a good job they did with diversifying the characters with strengths and weaknesses.
What would make the game better (and I’ve been looking) would be a complete list of moves per character and how to do them. The battle levels are quite small so it doesn’t give you much opportunity to figure them out while an opponent is attacking.
Rating: 4 / 5