written by owen on 2026-Nov-15.

Play through

The game loads quickly and you can turn off most of the online stuff. There is a simplistic control scheme that reminds of street fighter 4's touch controls on 3ds.

I increased the difficulty but the final boss kicked my ass with every team i chose. I much be missing some technique in the fighting engine.

I popped the game in again and did the missions. You cannot do the training missions using the simple control scheme. So switching to normal controls really opens up the game making it make more sense. Wolverine is the best character - its like the game was built for wolverine. There are other characters and some moves which seem impossible to pull off. I played each character until I reached a mission that I was too hard for me to pull off.

By share luck I got the "ultimate edition" of the game so I switched over to that resulting in all my mission progress being reset. Not a big problem because the ultimate edition has some fixes that make the game more user friendly for example the game now remembers the last character you used.

So I have to redo the missions. I have started using Dante which seems to be more crazy than wolverine. I need to play this game with other people.

How it ended

There are 50 fighters in UMVC3. It is going to take a while to mission mode them all. I think I am at 10 so far.

Conclusion

My rating 9/10. Runs great and loads fast. Mission section is the best part of single player. Some moves seem impossible to pull off but there is fun to have and a large selection of crazy fighters.

Strategy

Play the missions, its probably the best part of the single player experience. Some characters are more fun than others. Some characters are impossible to complete so just skip the mission when the button combo gets too hard to enter. In mission mode you need to pause the game to see the button combos and you might need to google what the symbols mean.

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