New downloadable content

[iammingy]

Thanks for the news, kfcrispy!!!

[Londonmark6123]

23/04/2007

Huge News for Marvel: Ultimate Alliance & Spider-Man 3!

Hey Friends!

We've got some excellent Super Hero related news to share with you...

First, the new Marvel: Ultimate Alliance expansion packs that you might have heard about will be made available on Xbox Live later this week.

That means you'll soon be able to add The Incredible Hulk, Nightcrawler, Cyclops, Hawkeye, Magneto, Sabretooth, Dr. Doom, and Venom to the already impressive roster of playable characters in MUA (you can see these new characters in action in this awesome hi-def trailer!)

Also, the May 4th release date for Spider-Man 3 is approaching fast. To kick off this epic event properly, we've just launched a new MySpace profile for the Spider-Man 3 video game. As far as profiles go, we think it's pretty slick... please come by, check it out, and add us as your friend!

I got this from a bulletin that was posted from the MUA Myspace last night.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v178/alfgio/MUA.jpg

[aerophex]

oh boy oh boy maybe one of these "it really is coming soon" messages will pan out...  I hope they don't break the game too badly...  But from what I'm gathering there doesn't seem to be any new content other than new characters?  I hope they at least expand the team rosters

[durfal]

New Gameplay Movie from some guys who tested it last friday!
http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/2007/04/23/544353.aspx

[BliZZ]

http://marvel.com/news/vgstories.1011

Planet Hulk! That makes 3 confirmed costumes for Hulk (Classic, Fixit, Planet Hulk). Here's hoping Maestro is 4th!

[cvc]

impressive (but) at the bottom it said keep checking for updated release date(s) hummm
BTW me me I'll test it.

[Londonmark6123]

Good News

New MUA Content Tomorrow + Great Spider-Man 3 News!!!
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Hey Friends!

We've got some excellent Super Hero related news to share with you...

The new Marvel: Ultimate Alliance expansion packs will be available on Xbox Live tomorrow morning!

That means you'll soon be able to add The Incredible Hulk, Nightcrawler, Cyclops, Hawkeye, Magneto, Sabretooth, Dr. Doom, and Venom to the already impressive roster of playable characters in MUA (you can see these new characters in action in this awesome hi-def trailer!)

Also, the May 4th release date for Spider-Man 3 is approaching fast. To kick off this epic event properly, we've just launched a new MySpace profile for the Spider-Man 3 video game. As far as profiles go, we think it's pretty slick... please come by, check it out, and add us as your friend!

[Alexjh]

The fourth Hulk skin appears to be ultimate from what I've seen - different shaped head and brown trousers, it was in one of the videos I believe.

[cvc]

I don't know about you guys but in the snaps Vemon's bottom half of the mesh looks to be to thick still eagerly awaiting all of those characters and hoping for a way to add more.

[Charlie_Murphy]

DLC has been released. Apparently there is a glitch and the first costume of each character is locked.

[kfcrispy]

hope to see them on the PC sooooooooooon!!!!!!!!!!

[Teancum]

Yeah, me too.  The models themselves will be useless, but the fx and xmlb's, as well as the anims will should be able to be ported.  From there we'll just need a few new models.  Heck, we can even rip the textures from the models themselves.  It's just the actual model data that we'll be stuck on.

[Teancum]

COSTUME INFO: (what users posted @ Gamefaqs)

HULK
1. Classic - Green Skin, Purple Pants (Critical Chance, Melee Damage, Defense)
2. Original - Grey Skin, Ripped blue pants, remains of ripped white shirt (Melee Damage, Boost Stats, Defense)
3. Planet Hulk - Green Skin, Roman Military Skirt, Left Arm Pauldrons and armour (Melee Damage, Power Damage, Defense)
4. Joe Fixit - Grey Skin, Black and white Spats, Pinstripe trousers, White shirt and tie. (Power Damage, Boost XP, Defense)

NIGHTCRAWLER
1. Astonishing - red and black suit, white gloves (Melee Mastery, Max Energy, Defense)
2. Classic - Red and black jumpsuit, added shoulder pads lost the emblem on the chest (Max Energy, Critical Strike, Defense)
3. Age of Apocalypse - Same as 2 kinda, differant shoulder pads, red gauntlets (Max Health, Power Damage, Defense)
4. Ultimate - Same as 2, all red becomes yellow and the white gloves are black. also if you look carefully his sword colors change too. (Melee Master, Protective Forces, Defense)

CYCLOPS
1. Astonishing - Default look. (Critical Strike, Boost Stats)
2. Original - Same suit, lots of yellow added.. its not pretty lol. (Melee Master, Reflection)
3 Classic - Once again the same, less yellow. (Max Health, Optic Power)
4. Ultimate - Black suit, dosnt cover armors. Gold rins around ankles and chest, and a bad haircut (Optic Power, Max Energy)

HAWKEYE
1. Classic - Default. (Dodge, Melee Damage)
2. Modern - Purple and black jumpsuit, black bow. (Critical Expertise, Bow Mastery)
3. Street Gear - Normal everyday street thug outfit. (Point blank, Hawk's Endurance)
4. Ultimate - Red and black jumpsuit no sleeves. No mask, just silly looking goggles. (Bleed Damage, Max Energy)

VENOM
1. Classic - Black, White spider symbol on chest and back, Large White eyes,
2. Marvel Knights - Black. White spider symbol on chest and back. Thin white streaks running vertically to sides of eyes.
3. Thunderbolts - As Marvel Knights but without spider symbol, instead white patterns across chest, back and arms.
4. Ultimate - Purple textured skin with veins

MAGNETO
1. Classic - Red, purple trim & Cape (Magnetic Damage, Melee Damage, Defense)
2. 80s - Purple, white trim, Helmetless (Resistance, Magnetic Damage, Defense)
3. Xorn - Black, knee length boots, leather pants, biker jacket, Black motorcycle style helmet with blue visor (Max Health, Power Damage, Defense)
4. Ultimate - Similar to Classic but grey, with red Helmet and Cape (Max Health, Magnetic Damage, Defense)

SABERTOOTH
1. Modern - Tan and Brown, Brown headgear, fur collar (Critical Strike, Max Energy, Defense)
2. Original - Tan, Brown trunks, fur trim to collar, gloves and boots (Dodge, Claw Damage, Defense)
3. Age of Apocalypse - Tan, brown boots and gloves, studded leather collar (Claw Damage, XP, Defense)
4. Ultimate - Green Pants, Khaki vest, brown headband, leather strapping on legs (Skill Boost, Melee Damage, Defense)

DR DOOM
1. Classic - you know what it looks like. (reflect damage, focus)
2. Secret Wars - Lost the cape and skirt, full metal. (Energy Regen, Power Damage)
3. Kristoff - Took off the hood, put the skirt back on lol. (Combo Bonus XP, Power Damage)
4. Ultimate - Puts on a full blow evil mage outfit. (melee Damage, Max Health)


TEAM BONUSES:
Shaba Ultimates: any new DLC  -- +15% Max Energy
Rogue's Gallery: bad guys
X-men: add Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Magneto, Sabretooth
Agile Warriors: Spiderman, Dare Devil, Deadpool, Nightcrawler, Elektra, Sabertooth (take away Spiderwoman)
Arch Rivals: Venom, Dr Doom, Spiderman, Mr. Fantastic
Natural Leaders: add Dr Doom, Cyclops, and Magneto
Classic Avengers: add Hulk
Avengers: add Hawkeye
Natural Forces: add Magneto
New FF4: add Hulk
Defenders: add Hulk
West coast avengers: War machine, thing, moon knight, human torch, secret wars spiderwoman, Hawkeye
Met his Maker: Add Magneto and Dr. Doom
Natural Leaders: Add Magneto and Dr. Doom
Marvel Royalty: Add Dr. Doom
Freaks: Hulk, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Wolverine, Thing
Secret Defenders: Dr. Strange, Ghost Rider, Hulk, Silver Surfer
Alternate Identities: add Dr. Doom (Kristoff)
Weapons Specialists: Add Hawkeye

NEW CONVERSATIONS
-Dr. Doom & Radiocative Man/Winter Soldier
-Magneto gets into it with Fin Fang Foom
-Venom and Mysterio at the Omega Base
-deadpool to nightcrawler....
"im glad i thought you to teleport, too bad you're still not as good as me"...


ALSO
-Gold Edition is confirmed, as when you go to download the new content it tells you not to bother if you have the Gold Edition.

[BliZZ]

So... once again, no Jim Lee Cyclops? Even though they went out of their way to make Jim Lee Storm?

The same 4 Nightcrawler skins? Wow. Should've expected it. Lame.

I have this feeling that Modern and Original Sabes are close enough in look to be really lame.

Are there snaps of these anywhere?

[Teancum]

It's logistically smart when you think about it.  They've probably got all the models in their original format, so you clean up a few polys.  Use a higher-resolution texture (most devs actually create their models with 1024 or higher then scale em down) and you've got content ready-to-rock. 

So this brings up some good questions: 

1-I'm assuming we'll be do Nightcrawler based on the DLC, but with PC XML2 models (since they work on Xbox MUA with no problems ).
2-Are we going to get flamed with 'play as Doom' PC requests? :runaway:
3-Can we up the res in an igb without ruining the model?