Hydra documents and files are the collectibles with the most obvious feedback into the main game. While progression through the game is fairly linear, the game world is actually fully open to exploration and you’ll want to do that, because collectibles that help you unlock new abilities as well as extra modes, documents, costumes and videos are scattered all over the place. So the foundations for Captain America: Super Soldier are set, but where do you get to use this wonderful combat system? Thankfully, in a rather diverse and open Hydra castle and surrounding village.

It’s a diverse and fluid combat system that feels great and rewards good play.

These act exactly as you’d expect them to except you can also buff them using portions of your special gauge to land devastating power blows, reversal attacks that allow you to take control of enemy weapons as well as enter a ‘super’ mode that generally allows you to attack with greater hit power. The combat is split into four main functions: light attacks, heavy attacks, counters and dodges. This means Cap is a joy to control when he gets into a scrap. What Next Level Games have decided to focus on for Captain America: Super Soldier is combat and in a bold yet effective move, they’ve based their combat on the Batman Arkham series. They sound convincingly like their characters and while their performances aren’t exceptional by any means, they don’t sound bored or phoned in which is pretty miraculous considering some other SEGA published movie tie-ins. What’s even more surprising is that Chris Evans, Neal McDonough, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan and JJ Field all show up to voice their characters in-game and even manage to do a respectable job. So where does that put us with Next Level Games and Captain America: Super Soldier? Thankfully, this is also one of the very few Marvel games produced by SEGA that actually shows a clear understanding about what makes the character great and it also does a great job of riffing on the strengths of the first film.

Of the five games (and their multiple ports) produced under SEGA, The Incredible Hulk is the only one that you could say was even remotely worth a look as the open world chaos that it brought certainly seemed to showcase that developer Edge of Reality understood what makes Hulk a great character and how they could transfer that to a video game. Every title SEGA published with a Marvel property attached to it was either rushed, buggy or entirely misjudged. To say SEGA’s time with the Marvel license was a bit underwhelming would be a bit of an understatement.

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