Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order

North American box art.
Developer(s)	Koei Tecmo Team Ninja
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Release Date(s)
Nintendo Switch	WW: July 19, 2019
Nintendo Switch	WW: July 19, 2019
Platform(s)
Genre(s)	Action role-playing Hack-and-slash
Download Size	15.51 GB [1]
Rating(s)
ESRB	05
PEGI	03
CERO	02
ACB	02

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order is a co-op fighting game released exclusively for the Nintendo Switch in 2019. Unlike the previous entries, the game was developed by Team Ninja with Nintendo publishing it worldwide. The game also takes many more cues from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Gameplay

The game is a co-op action game where up to 4 players can choose from a wide variety of Marvel heroes with powerful attacks and unique skillsets that expand as the characters level up. The game is playable in local and online multiplayer with the ability to drop in or out at any time. The heroes each have their own signature attacks called the Alliance Extreme attack which can be combined into Synergy attacks when other players join in. A full team can perform an Ultimate Alliance Extreme attack.

Playable Characters

• Iron-Man
• Captain America
• Thor
• Hulk
• Black Widow
• Falcon
• Vision
• Scarlet Witch
• Wolverine
• Storm
• Nightcrawler
• Star-Lord
• Gamora
• Rocket Raccoon and Groot
• Drax
• Iron Fist
• Daredevil
• Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
• Spider-Man (Miles Morales)
• Spider-Gwen
• Venom
• Lockjaw and Crystal
• Captain Marvel
• Doctor Strange
• Black Panther
• Deadpool
• Ant-Man
• Miss Marvel
• Cyclops (Update)
• Colossus (Update)
• Punisher (DLC)
• Blade (DLC)
• Moon Knight (DLC)
• Morbius (DLC)
• Ice Man (DLC)
• Gambit (DLC)
• Cable (DLC)
• Phoenix (DLC)
• Mr. Fantastic (DLC)
• Invisible Woman (DLC)
• Human Torch (DLC)
• Thing (DLC)
• Doctor Doom (DLC)

Plot

In this new storyline, heroes and villains unite in a race across the Marvel Universe to find the Infinity Stones before the mad cosmic tyrant Thanos and his ruthless warmasters, The Black Order, use them to unleash cosmic chaos. Several of the heroes' arch-nemeses gain control of the Infinity Stones along the way.

Development

The game was revealed at The Game Awards 2018. The game was released on July 19, 2019. An Expansion Pass for the game was announced at E3 2019 which revealed plans for additional content, including story missions, modes, and characters from Marvel Knights, X-Men and Fantastic Four starting in fall of 2019. At San Diego Comic Con 2019, Marvel announced that additional characters Colossus and Cyclops from the X-Men would be added to the game via a free update, released on August 30, 2019, and revealed the four characters coming in the Marvel Knights DLC pack, "Curse of the Vampire"", which was released on September 30, 2019. The contents of the X-Men DLC pack, "Rise of the Phoenix", were detailed at The Game Awards 2019 and announced to be releasing on December 23, 2019. The Fantastic Four DLC pack, "Shadow of Doom", which includes a new story set after the main campaign, was released on March 26, 2020.

Reception

In Metacritic website, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order gets a metascore of 73/100 based on 81 critic reviews.

External links

• Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order at GameFAQs