New Ultimate Alliance Characters

Expanding on the already impressive cast of Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Activision has announced plans to release Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Heroes and Villains, an expansion pack for its popular action/RPG.

The expansion will feature eight new playable characters: The Incredible Hulk, Magneto, Hawkeye, Sabretooth, Doctor Doom, Cyclops, Nightcrawler and Venom. Each new character will be unique, with their own signature powers, skins and dialog and achievement points.

These new characters can be purchased on Xbox live in April in two different ways: You can purchase the Hero Pack or Villain Pack seperately for 500 Microsoft points ($6.25), or buy the combined pack for 800 Microsoft points ($10). There will also be a gamer pic pack available for 80 points ($1).

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance already has the largest cast of superheroes ever assembeled, and is the best selling superhero game on the Xbox 360.