Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (Xbox 360, 2006)

Not the most complex game out there, but this is loads of fun to play. It's a great beat-em-up RPG, and extremely high on the comic-geek quotient. There's also a nice variety of Marvel characters to play, and a HUGE amount replay value.

The only minor quibble I have is the instruction manual. There's a few mechanics of the game that it doesn't explain clearly, such as accessing the Team Roster menu or a few other things. I had to do a web search to figure them out, which wasn't too difficult, but shouldn't have been necessary.

I had this game for the PSP, but the Xbox 360 version had a few more perks (I'm kind of a sucker for Achievement points...), plus it's nice to be able to see everything on the big screen.

I am hotly anticipating the release of Ultimate Alliance 2 on 9/8...