If I don't then I take damage.ĭamage is dealt by simply turning over the corresponding number of cards until either full damage is dealt, or the right blocking icon appears. If I have, say, a Spiderman who is himself a speed factor, but has the Red block symbol, then I can block it. So, say you attack with Wolverine who is an Animal factor. You play an attack card (since all cards are, effectively, attack cards) and then your opponent then has a chance to block it with a card of the corresponding block. Now as a quick "I need to eat 10 minutes" having more time to just get in and play a game myself is also a big perk.Ĭombat's also fairly straight forward. But it also makes the game play far easier to teach to kids and far simpler to dive in on. Having all the mana taken out of the game just makes it that much less fun on that front. Now, for the hard core among us, we know the hours spent finding just the right balance of mana to creatures to spells. This simplifies one of the most complex aspects of CCG's: Resource management. If the card has a power lower then the current power for the game, you can play it. Every turn you flip a coin to see if the "power" goes up, and that's how you can tell what cards you can play. There is no mana and there are no resources to manage. Each card as on it a level (or mana cost for the M:tG crew), a damage, an attack factor (or basically card color in M:tG terms) and a blocking factor (I'll explain that in a moment). Within the game is a collectable card game and with its recent release as an actual hold in your hands card set I've truly sold my soul to Marvel and Mr.
You can turn on full text speech but few. The default chat is phrase based, allowing you to say things like "Hi" and "Wanna play tag" as prepackaged comments to other characters.
The Online game is a free to play, pay for benefits, MMO designed for kids to explore and collect things in this world. But most episodes focus on team work as the core value, usually with some other common themes tossed in for the kids. All of the villains are toonified caricatures of their evil selves so as not to scare the younger ones. The humor of the show is pretty cliched, with a few brainy jokes tossed in to appease the grownups in the room and lots of slapstick for the kids. Marvel, Reptil, Silver Surfer and other members of the larger franchise. The show focuses on Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Wolverine and Falcon as the core characters, with frequent appearances from Ms. I'm hooked on The Marvel Super Hero Squad Online Collectible Card Game.įor those not familiar, the Super Hero Squad is a repackaging of various Marvel characters targeted at the preschool and early elementary ages. There is a need for a break and it's time to let you, dear readers, in on a guilty pleasure of mine: No one can work solid for 6 hours at a computer pounding away at the keys, be it writing code, computing expenses or writing a future best selling vampire novel. In a future installment I will review the game itself, the hub and the collectibles and the missions. It's a review of just the collectible card game portion. This is not a full review of the online game.