Marvel UA Question: "Action Figures"?
 

I'm playing through Marvel UA on Easy and I've stumbled across a couple of "action figures" (1/5 of Daredevil and 1/5 Black Panther so far). I'm avoiding flipping though the Brady Games guide for answers as I'm trying to avoid spoilers so hoping someone here can tell me how to access pics of these "figures" from the menus.

These action figures are Easter Eggs of sorts. If you pick up 5 of the same figure, then it unlocks that character as playable. I don't believe you can actually view the figures in the menus anywhere.

Black Panther ended up as one of my most-played characters, so it's worth finding the figures to see if you like the character.

Anyone else excited about the new characters coming? I am, but do not think the price is justified. We should be getting more game/levels for that price, not just characters and achievements:
http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/news/?id=15577

I'll likely be a sucker and bite though. :(

WOW! That is awesome news!! My brother and I played through this game and talked about how awesome it would be to have more characters to choose from. Too bad there's still no Gambit or Punisher but Venom, Hulk and Nightcrawler is pretty effin awesome! Can't wait for that!

Definately looking forward to those characters. I've never paid for download content before, but that's pretty cool even if there aren't any extra levels with it. For God's sake, how hard would it have been to at least give us comic missions for every character?

Nightcrawler was easily my favorite character in the X-Men Legends games. I tried to find the same love with the teleporters in Ultimate Alliance, but somehow it wasn't the same, so I am definately looking forward to him the most.

If I get this, I will likely try and convince some friends to do some co-op at my house a couple nights to go through it again.

I wonder what new teams the downloads will give us? One obvious one is Hulk/Wolverine/Spider-Man/Ghost Rider as the New Fantastic Four (from the Walt Simonson/Arthur Adams story of 15 or so years ago).

Hulk/Dr. Strange/Iceman/Hawkeye could be the Defenders, although Hawkeye was only on the team for one story arc and Iceman wasn't on the team at the same time as any of the others.

Oh my god -- I've lapsed into Nerd talk, haven't I?

Ah, makes sense. Just found a couple more in chapter 2, but the things are so freakin' small I've probably missed a couple already. (And I'm playing on a 42" HD.)

I'm pretty sure 1 Daredevil and 1 Black Panther per Chapter. I could be wrong though. They aren't very hard to find. I didn't have to look them up.

I've never seen one and I play on the same monitor as you. I just stumble across them. Can you actually see them? What's really frustrating is I have 4 Black Panthers and 4 Daredevels but can't get those last ones...

I missed a few and had to use a guide from GameFaqs to help me find the ones I missed. It's really easy to miss them.

Edited to add: For those other than the OP who wants the locations....

Locations for:

Daredevil: http://forums.xbox.com/7704260/ShowPost.aspx
Black Panther: http://forums.xbox.com/7700907/ShowPost.aspx

I want them both but I'm too lazy to go back through this game right now. I have Ac's for both but I'm not sure how many.

Question: I know BP and DD are availlable for the 360 version. However, I'm confused about Silver Surfer. Is he or is he not available for the 360 unlock? Some stuff I read seems to say he is, but I thought he was only for other system versions?

Silver Surfer is available on the 360. You get him by unlocking all the costumes for every other character, so that means getting at least 175 kills with everyone, and also getting at least Bronze on their comic mission. I haven't done this one yet. :)

Wow. Ok...I guess I won't be getting SS anytime soon. :lol:

Silver Surfer is one of the best characters to play with. He's insanely powerful.

The Silver Surfer may be the toughest unlockable ever. Yikes.

Since this has become a MUA Q&A, I have a question : What should you do later in the game when your inventory is full and you beat a boss or sub-boss who drops something? Should you sell a lower-valued item and pick up the new one? I don't see another solution since there isn't a storage cache in this game.

I get rid of things that don't give that much of a boost or ones that I know I won't use. Some are worth keeping and applying them to the heroes and others are disposable.

There is also a code to unlock him (consisting of pushing a sequence of direction arrows when in the character select screen). There's also one for Daredevil... that's how I originally got both of them, and I was wondering how to get that Silver Surfer achievement...

On a side note, I finally finished the game this weekend, and I'm glad they have a "new game +" option. Also liked the "What if" part at the end. I knew I should've chosen Jean instead of Kurt...

Remember if you use any codes to unlock everything you disable earning any achievements in your game unless you completely erase the save and start over from scratch.

My team included Cap, the Surfer, Dr. Strange and a rotating cast that included the Human Torch, Thor, Iron Man and Spider-Man. That team could cut through any mess quickly.

TK

Is that only for some uber code to unlock everything? As I said, I unlocked Daredevil and Surfer through codes (mainly so I could start playing them from the beginning) and I've gotten a lot of achievements, including the one for unlocking Daredevil by getting all his action figures...

Supposedly any code will axe them. I can attest to the fact that a code to unlock all the costumes for a particular character does disable the achievements (from what i saw when i rented the game).

I think you're right...

http://forums.xbox.com/11208683/ShowPost.aspx

This is probably because the codes to unlock them came as "exclusives" for certain stores... I think one was Target and one was EBGames. Here are the codes, by the way:

(enter on the character selection screen, you'll here a sound when it's done correctly)
Unlock Daredevil left, left, right, right, up, down, up, down
Unlock Silver Surfer down, left, left, up, right, up, down, left

Yes, but BARELY. Not even worth actively looking for them since they're so small.

Another question: Is it best to stick with one team throughout the game? I've had fun sampling the many characters (Luke Cage is my current favorite...love the chain whip), but I'm afraid that when I get to later levels (and even the comic missions) my guys will be way too weak to beat the bosses.

Thoughts?