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Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2

Marvel fans can rejoice again as Activision will be bringing Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 to the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii. The story will be focusing on the Civil War events from the comic books and should please fans looking for some comic authenticity, while fans of the original MUA should be happy for a follow-up to the addictively fun action game.

The roster is quite an interesting one, offering characters such as Captain America, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Wolverine, Mr Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch, Thing, Hulk, Dare Devil, Storm, Deadpool, Venom, Green Goblin, Ice Man, Luke Cage, Jean Grey, Juggernaut, Gambit, Iron Fist, Ms Marvel, Penance, Song Bird, and Thor. If your favorite character is not in the list, we can only hope that it will be offered as a DLC later on.

The in-game engine and pre-rendered cut scenes all look very detailed and solid, we can count on Activision to bring us more superhero goodness this time around. Take a look at the Gamespot video below to get a feel of the action. Can’t wait to play this game.

I can’t help but notice that as of late, it would seem that fat characters are rather popular in fighting games, don’t believe me? Take a look at Rufus from Street Fighter 4 and Bob from Tekken 6. Sure we’ve seen big characters before such as Zangief, E-Honda, and the likes but these guys are big because of their muscles and hey E-Honda’s a sumo wrestler. But with Rufus and Bob, they’re really, to put it politely, fat, yes just look at Rufus and you can see he’s like a big ball of jello, Bob’s still has a thick layer of fat around him but his animations aren’t as comical as Rufus.

Bob from Tekken 6

Rufus from Street Fighter IV

Guess what, for all their fat, these two characters are surprisingly agile and flexible and not to be prejudice about fat people but we have a real life example of how agile they can be, anyone who watches Kung Fu movies would be familiar with Samo Hung, although not quite the same size as our video game characters but he sure isn’t err… thin, yet he’s a very agile fighter. Check out the videos below to see what I mean.

Rufus shakes his jelly belly as he confronts his rival to become the No. 1 fighter in the USA!

Bob putting the hurt down on some Tekken characters in this trailer.

This really disproves the stereotype that has long been established that fat people are slow, heck they could possibly be faster than you, so think twice before laughing at tubby next time ya. On a side note, maybe fat could become the next ‘in’ look, afterall it’s we humans who dictate these so called ‘trends’ (sorry but could not think of a more appropriate word to use here)