Marvel Ultimate Alliance Art Concept Shows What a Modern Remake Could Look Like

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Marvel Ultimate Alliance's new home on the Nintendo Switch feels like a comfortable platform for the isometric action-RPG. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order is much more advanced and modern than Marvel Ultimate Alliance's previous two installments. But when fans take a look back at where the franchise started, there still remains the influential gameplay loop that influenced a third installment.

Marvel Ultimate Alliance's chiefest pull as a franchise is the freedom with which players are able to combine characters and create their own personalized teams of superheroes. Co-op is therefore where Marvel Ultimate Alliance features the most longevity as players can drop in and out of co-op willingly; otherwise, a four-person team can be comprised of one player and three AI teammates. Recently, a fan's artistic concept shows what a modern remake of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance could look like.

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Twitter user and graphic designer Rock Rider recreated the key box art for Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, which both featured art of their iconic Marvel characters in different panels. Rock Rider's concept supplants Marvel: Ultimate Alliance's artwork with character models of Marvel characters as they appear in contemporary titles. Spider-Man's character model comes from Insomniac Games' Marvel's Spider-Man, for example, while Gamora's comes from Eidos-Montreal's Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, and Black Panther's comes from Crystal Dynamics' Marvel's Avengers.

Interestingly, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order decided to take a highly stylized and cartoonish approach to its art design. This plays to Nintendo's strengths but also keeps the Marvel Ultimate