Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: 10 MAJOR Issues Team Ninja Must Fix

8. A.I. Shenanigans

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If you ever worry about a Terminator-style robot uprising, playing MUA3 with CPU teammates should provide comfort that the AI apocalypse is still a ways off.

Your computer-controlled allies will spend much of the time trapped on scenery, focusing on a random minion while the boss charges up an attack right in front of them, or just standing aimlessly while enemies melt their health bar.

There are few things more frustrating than finding out you've used up all your revives because Wolverine absorbed a world-ending laser blast for the third time in a row. It ruins part of the joy of Ultimate Alliance when the "Alliance" feels more like a hindrance than a help.

It's like watching an Avengers film where only one of the main heroes is semi-competent, and the rest have turned up drunk.

Creating a decent AI is undoubtedly hard, but at the very least, marginal improvements to the code should mean your team requires less babysitting.

This ought to be near the very top of the developers' to-do list.

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