Marvel Trading Card Game (PlayStation Portable, 2007)

The good:
-Tons of characters.
-Easy to play an online opponent.

The bad:
-Tiny, tiny cards with no way to simply blow the pictures up to a decent size and enjoy your collection. Comics being such a visual experience, I would expect you to be able to look through the cool art you collect. Maybe even save the pictures off and use them as your PSP background; that would have been cool, but instead you could only see the pictures at a pretty small size.

-The gameplay is poorly explained, without enough reward or fun involved to work through and really learn the nuances. If the cards were cool to collect that might be enough reward to stick to it, but as it is earning the cards just becomes tedious.

-Your online cards and your single player cards don't mix, so gaining cards in an online trade, etc. doesn't give you more cards when playing alone. Of course, since the cards aren't that cool anyway this isn't as big a drawback as it really should have been.

All told, I had high hopes but ended up really disappointed in the Marvel Trading Card Game.

Although this game is terribly addicting if you're anywhere close to being interested in Marvel or card games, it falls short in that the cards could be larger to allow the player to appreciate their worth and art. The music is pretty boring as well. If you can look past the fact that you're better off listening to something else while you're playing, and you're not going to see the great animation you may expect from Marvel, you'll still enjoy yourself plenty. I haven't even played online yet, and I've still enjoyed hours of figuring out the game playing the campaign. The various attack / defense concepts and strategies it takes to win keep the game challenging and fun.