Marvel Super Hero Squad (2009) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Marvel Super Hero Squad

Marvel Super Hero Squad is an action beat-em-up game for one to four players that is based on the animated Marvel TV series. The game is based in Super Hero City and sees the Super Hero Squad battling against…

50 20 October 2009

What Marvel Super Hero Squad is

Marvel Super Hero Squad is a fighting game developed by Blue Tongue Entertainment and released in 2009. It was published by THQ. It is available on Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, Wii and PlayStation 2. It runs on TOSHI.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Marvel Super Hero Squad is an action beat-em-up game for one to four players that is based on the animated Marvel TV series. The game is based in Super Hero City and sees the Super Hero Squad battling against Dr. Doom’s Lethal Legion of villains. The story is that long ago the mighty Infinity Sword was shattered and nor Dr. Doom and his minions are seeking the pieces, the Infinity Fractals. Each fractal is immensely powerful and gives whoever possesses it special powers. Super Hero City is in danger and only the Super Hero Squad can save the day! With a story line like that the stage is set for lots of fighting, though the enemies can be targeted so players can throw objects and use long…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Marvel series

Marvel Super Hero Squad is the 195th of 404 entries we hold in the Marvel series. The next entry was X-Men Origins: Wolverine - The Mobile Game in 2009. Its critic score of 50 is 14 points below the series average of 64. The highest-rated entry is Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes at 90.

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How it was received

Marvel Super Hero Squad holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 17 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Marvel Super Hero Squad launched on 20 October 2009, within three weeks of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Dragon Age: Origins, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Dragon Age: Origins, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition.

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