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Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Ultimate Battle of Almost Ultimate Destiny

Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds is a pure nerdgasm. I can't attest to how much the game will please fighter purists, but to this barely-more-than-a-button-masher, it's a hoot that's well worth its retail price, and just about worth the wait. Great, accessible mechanics, a huge and varied roster, and loads of nerdy winks make this game a must-have for any fan of the fighting game genre or the comic book medium. Yes, it's been a freaking decade since Capcom put out the last Marvel Vs. Capcom game. Yes, the roster has 20 fewer fighters. Now that it's here, none of that seems to matter. It's a great game by any measure.

It has all the Capcom fighter basics, but with a few streamlined aspects casual players like me, who aren't obsessed with keeping the genre "pure" in its decade-old, frame-counting glory, will appreciate. There are four attack buttons, three light/medium/heavy attacks and a special launcher attack, and everything in the game can be done with a combination of those buttons and the standard fighting came stick motions (quarter-circle,  dragon punch, mash buttons). Honestly, for non-veterans, it's pretty much the same mechanics as Street Fighter 4, Capcom Vs. Tastunoko, and well, basically everything Capcom since the hyper combo was first invented.