Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2/Off the Leash


 * Objectives
 * 1) Dispose of the Bombs

If you've been following the Anti-Registration path, welcome back! With this brief boss battle, the two divergent stories converge and continue in the same track. Your job is to fight Goblin and ../Venom/ while helping ../Nick Fury/ dispose of some bombs.

Ditch the bombs
This is much easier said than done. Shortly after battle starts, Fury throws the first bomb to the ground. You have to run over, pick it up (Grab button) and throw it into the exhaust pit in the center of the arena (Grab button again). You have to do this while dealing with Green Goblin and Venom. Just to complicate matters, they take turns riding Gobby's glider around and throwing bombs and other nasty things at your feet.

The toughest things to deal with are the grenades. When you see blinking red lights on the ground, run away. You do have to deal as much damage as possible to the criminals in order to advance the game. Fury will not pull off the next bomb unless you have whittled down the bad guys' health. You can only damage the villain currently on the ground.

When Venom is on the glider, he throws webbing over the vent. You have to blast this off to get the bomb in. Keep an eye on the vent and listen for Fury to start shouting about the webbing and go ahead and blast it quickly so it doesn't interfere with you when you're ready to chuck a bomb in the vent.

Also, you have less than a minute to grab each bomb and chuck it before it explodes and you have to start over. So keep an ear out for Fury telling you there's another one and watch for the clock that appears above the villain's portrait in the lower left of the screen.

Sequence of events

 * 1) Shortly after the battle begins, Fury throws down the first bomb and you have 42 seconds to get rid of it.
 * 2) When Venom's health reaches about 10%, he and Gobby exchange places and Fury throws down the second bomb; you have 32 seconds to get it in the vent.
 * 3) When Gobby's health reaches about 10%, he and Venom switch places again; Venom is now at about 50% health; Fury throws the third bomb and you have 22 seconds to chuck it.
 * 4) When Venom's health is almost gone, he gets back on the glider and you have to fight Goblin again, now at about 50% health; whittle him down to almost nothing and then Venom gets on the ground and a couple hits later you're hitting the cutscenes.

This is not an easy fight; but, it's quite doable as long as you do two things: keep moving and don't let webbing stay on the mouth of the vent. Remember, your primary goal is to get those bombs into the vent, not kill Green Goblin and Venom.