NOTE: Played on a PlayStation 4 (Slim) from a copy purchased by the author. “I made it for all the right reasons…now this.” – Tony Stark The Avengers have existed for over half a century, but their star has never burned brighter than in the last decade or so thanks to the shared Marvel Cinematic…
To clarify exactly what type of game players will be investing into with Marvel’s Avengers, the developers at Crystal Dynamics have started a series of events, dubbed “War Table”, that are meant to highlight specific features of the game prior to its September launch. The first was held at the end of June, with the second airing…
The climax of December 31st this year won’t just mark the end of another calendar year, but also the closure of an entire decade, and as we roll into the 20’s, it’s time to look back at a ten years of comic book video games. This decade has been an interesting one for comic book,…
The success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has given birth to a new golden age of Marvel video games that started with last year’s Marvel’s Spider-Man and will continue with Marvel’s Iron Man VR, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order and (hopefully) whatever Square-Enix has cooking with their Avengers Project. Rewind eleven years though, and it was a…
It’s been well over a year since the Disney Infinity 3.0 Marvel Battlegrounds was released and approaching a year since the termination of Disney Infinity (moment of silence, please). The figure that came with the Battlegrounds play set that you either own and have on display, own and put away or are presently in a bidding war for, was not the…
One day after the first gameplay trailer that showed off the first four playable characters in Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite, another extended version has landed that shows two new playable characters. The first is the star-spangled Avenger himself, Captain America, who made his Capcom fighting debut in the original Marvel Super Heroes and the second is Morrigan from the Darkstalkers series…
The PlayStation Experience press conference just ended which among many things had the first unveiling of Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite. From the PlayStation Blog comes the first details of the game starting with a release window: late 2017. Outside of the four characters shown in the trailer: Ryu, Mega Man x, Captain Marvel and Iron Man, the…
Over this past month I’ve now looked at three versions of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 that have all addressed the Civil War conflict. Prior to the release of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, and even the story in the comics from Mark Millar, Captain America and Iron Man have been battling in video games and continue to do so even today. To…
When Activision started their Marvel action-RPG series with the original X-Men Legends, development responsibilities primarily fell on Raven Software with the occasional porting duties being outsourced to other studios. With development on X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Singularity and a reboot of the Wolfenstein franchise all happening simultaneously, Raven had very little resources to commit to the second and final Marvel Ultimate Alliance game released in…
The dungeon-crawler action-RPG genre was a good fit for the PSP. The overhead perspective allowed developers to create a fun action game on the go without having to be strapped with the usual camera problems inherent with more traditional 3-D action/adventure games. Some of the games that found great success on the handheld were the…
