Originally Posted by
Derek Metaltron
Events from the first game were referred to on a few occasions by characters in the second game, so that’s not strictly true. Like I suggested there was no reason why they couldn’t have called it simply Marvel Ultimate Alliance, but they kept the 3 in there. It’s not like EA which didn’t simply call 2015’s Star Wars Battlefront Star Wars Battlefront 3 because Pandemic had made two console games previously.
I wouldn’t expect them to be directly related but if they have referred to it in that way there should be a demonstration why.