Cover:
Blonde haired and blue eyed American family in front of a suburban house, while an american flag replaces the sky. A silhouette of Captain America beating the crap out of Red Skull is seen.

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America. A haven for hopes, dreams and awesome action flicks with hairy men. What makes the different between America and a country...like Denmark? Maybe it's the fact that in Denmark you get Lego and in America, well, tits for colorful chains. Or it's because America has a superhero that embodies everything good in the most idealistic way possible, and spends his time beating the shizznats out of America's enemies.
Who knows. I, personally, don't care. I think, that Captain America conception as a motivator for american soldiers is long overdue, and surely became more than that over time.
The stories in the nineties, though, were as forgettable as the 131. Pokemon (Fuck Lapras!). They mostly were retconned and have no significance in the continuing stories. Cap is most present and remembered as the leader of the Avengers, and is logic since the Avengers comics were always more successful than his own series. So, it must be the reason why he always appears together with the Avengers. For example, in the 1992 game “Captain America and the Avengers” for the Snes.


Page 5: “I occasionally draw, when I'm not killing the Reds.” - Steve Rogers

Ports. That's what was the only way you could've played the game from the arcade without losing all your pocket money on a fucking hard game and then contemplating the possibility of asking the guy next to you for a quarter. Ah, I feel a little bad for those who thought the “Captain America and the Avengers” was any good, and therefore didn't go to the arcade in order to pay for this shitpile. It's a pretty bad port and it has nothing that speaks for it. This version stales in comparison to the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive one in every aspect. The graphic isn't the worst and is able to convey at least the look of the characters. But that isn't something worth for a medal of honor, it the least you should have done when you do a superhero game, right? So, the graphics doesn't look as good as the Sega version, bu-fucking-hu.
The real fault of this game is, that when you get hit the invincibility isn't really congruent to your flickering character. Meaning, that when you think that your still invincible, but are in reality (or virtually for that matter) vulnerable to hits. This doesn't even exist in the Sega version, which is why its so much superior to the Snes version.
The rest of the game is pretty much the same. A side-scroller and features Vision, Hawkeye and Iron Man as optionable characters. Multiplayer up to two player is also possible and makes this game a little bit more bearable. Music in this game is, to be honest, okay and has typically shitty voiced bits that provide some laughter.
Last but not least, the story which is pretty standard. You have to fight Cap's archenemy Red Skull, who formed a group of villians to help usurp the world. That's pretty much the story, the writing is just horrid, and gives you buyers guilt the second you read the first line.
Overall the game fails to be as fun as the already mediocre arcade game. It just takes the bad things and makes them worse. Its broken and beaten, and the best thing you could do is let it in the dollar bin to die.

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Its pretty clear that the game doesn't compare in the slightest imaginable way to the comic. Especially, when the comic is on a hell of a run right now. The creative team, Brubaker and Epting (and sometimes some other fill-in artist), is kicking major ass with Captain America. The started with a whole new Volume (basically a renumbering to attract new readers) and brought fans such monumental moments like the death of Captain America. The book is much more mature than most of the other comics in the marvel stable, and lives a little bit in a bubble in that respect. Which is pretty good when you just want to read one book without constantly going to Wikipedia to find out why Cap is a Cyborg all of a sudden. So, grab the book or wait for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, but just stay from that abomination of a game.


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