Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order review — only sometimes super

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 is in this weird place. It’s a throwback to the kind of simple cooperative beat-’em-up games you don’t see a ton of anymore.

Its predecessor, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, came out all the way back in 2009. That’s one year after the first Iron Man movie launched the Marvel cinematic universe. Not only have games changed a lot in that time, but Marvel has become a gigantic brand far better known for their films than comics.