I've been playing games a long time and have read a lot of strategy guides, going back to the old Nintendo Power Super Mario Bros. 3 guide for the NES. This one is right up there with the best. Take this guide from the perspective of someone who dropped hundreds of hours into Street Fighter 4 and Super Street Fighter 4, but put no more than 20-30 hours into Marvel vs. Capcom 2 on Dreamcast a decade ago.
This is a great guide for someone like me. MvC3 is a crazy complicated game with tons of stuff going on. Compared to SF4, here's way more characters, you use a 3-man team, the Y dimension is utilized far more, etc.There's a lot to learn. This guide gives you not just the basic nuts & bolts but the more advanced information you need to become a competent player.
The guide starts with the extremely useful 34 page outline (in SMALL fonts - same for the entire guide) of gameplay systems, but the rundowns of every character. The character rundown here is not like the Prima SSF4 guide, which was content to show special moves and a brief section on basic strategies. Each character here has an incredibly detailed rundown on strengths and weaknesses, complements, combos, and strategy ideas for important situations in the game. For example, you can learn about character X's options in the air, on the ground, in the corner, on offense, on defense, while utilizing X-Factor, as an assist, and so forth. It's really, really good stuff and it's something that I think any player of this game could benefit from.
Keep in mind, this guide is not afraid to liberally use the crazy fighting game terminology that other guides I have read shy away from. It includes a glossary so people can look up any terms they are unaware of. Of course, once you learn this terminology you can hop on internet sites and communicate (and understand) what people are talking about when they talk about this game - a useful tool!
My only real complaint about this guide is that the organization is all over the place. It's clear the authors worked really hard to pack as much info as possible and as such paragraphs are kind of laid out wherever and blocks of text are crammed in wherever applicable. But, this is a small price to pay considering what you are getting.
Highly recommended!
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Sergio
Very useful if you want to learn the game.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 10, 2019