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GRAPHICS: C- (7.25) Capcom has a massive crowd of fans of its popular fighting games. It has a reputation of making excellent arcade games, and not-so-good home translations. This is the case with MSH. There are lots of people who love this type of cartoon-style graphics in fighting games, and while it's not my taste, I'll try to be as unbiased as I can and provide you with a fair review. The characters may not be as large as they were in the arcade, but they are still very detailed and clear. Not much was sacrificed for the backgrounds either, it's just that they are too simple and uninteresting, nothing like the excellent X-Men: Children Of The Atom backgrounds, which were superbly animated and interactive.The framerate is VERY poor. This is where Capcom fails at home conversions. The characters themselves don't have that many frames of animation. The framerate is slow enough during normal gameplay, but if you happen to pick a larger character, it can become nearly unplayable. Doing a special move will only make it worse, to the point it moves at snail pace. Even if you're a fan, you must admit, Capcom hardly improves the graphics. In every release, Capcom only adds more characters, but never dramatically upgrades the look of the game, so if you've played one, you've played them all. It should stick to making graphically perfect games like Resident Evil 1 or 2 and stop making translations the PlayStation can't handle. If only the PlayStation had a RAM upgrade like the Saturn's...
MUSIC/SOUND: D- (6.25) There's nothing in this department that I could say I enjoyed. The music sucks, it has always been the same uninspired cute music that doesn't fit in with the characters' personality. The MIDI musics are the worst I've heard on the PlayStation so far. The sound is just as bad if not worse. MSH has one of the worst announcers ever made for a fighting game. He's hateful. The worst part about it is that he's really loud and echoed. The characters' speech is literally laughable. You'll laugh histerically every time you hear their stupid winning phrases, such as "Freedom prevails!" or "Another victory!". The sound effects in this game are barely passable. They're as unrealistic as they'll ever get. The bottomline is that Capcom is no good at making realistic sounds or intelligent voice-overs (anyone who's played Resident Evil could tell you that). GAMEPLAY: D+ (7) If it wasn't for the unacceptable framerate that ruins the gameplay, this game could be quite playable, but as it stands, it's unbearable. Capcom loves to make impossible bosses for their games, and these are "hurl-your-controller-through-the-wall" impossible, they are even cheaper than those from Mortal Kombat. Where's the fun if the AI opponent cheats all the way through? It will take you a while to get used to the controller layout (unless you're a follower of the series, which by now I doubt there's any of those reading this review), but when you do, you'll no longer be interested in the game.
FUN AND REPLAY VALUE: D (6.50) MSH won't hold your interest for long, and while it does, it almost feels like a chore to play it (especially when you're forced to review it) since you have to put up with its lousy framerate. Fans of Capcom games will obviously not agree, but you won't play this game for more than about an hour before you realize that this is not an interesting game, and in fact, it's quite annoying. WORTH BUYING: NO If you like Marvel comics and must have anything that bears the name, you may decide to purchase MSH regardless of any review you read. Too bad the conversion of X-Men: COTA was so crappy for the PlayStation, because that's a better game that could have been recommended over this.
OVERALL: D (6.75) Don't get me wrong, I don't hate all Capcom fighting games, in fact, I loved Street Fighter Alpha 2 and I enjoyed the arcade and Saturn versions of X-Men: COTA, but MSH is just a new copy of X-Men: COTA with a few different Marvel characters added. There's no variation and the action is drowned by its loading and framerate slowdown. I had high expectations, but Marvel Super Heroes is a disappointment. To order Marvel Super
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