Kate Bishop is Marvel’s Avengers’ first new heroīy the end of my time with the single-player campaign, most of my characters were level 10, out of a current level cap of 50, with probably two-thirds of their combat abilities not yet unlocked. Sure, you will have to put up with the game constantly reminding you with on-screen prompts that you’re not using the highest level gear for your character, but that’s about it. If you are only interested in picking up Marvel’s Avengers as a single-player, action-adventure and dropping it as soon as that’s done, you can totally do that. The campaign in Marvel’s Avengers is around 12 hours long, and I was honestly surprised by how separated it felt from the game’s eventual live service content. They went with a villain who the MCU has not yet touched, and did a great job bringing them to life. I don’t want to spoil who the game’s main villain is, for those who have avoided spoilers thus far, but I will say I very much enjoyed that the game made use of one of Marvel’s more ridiculous and over-the-top characters for this story. Even when I knew something was coming, I never quite knew what it would be. The single-player campaign in Marvel’s Avengers is occasionally a little bit predictable, but the story managed to keep me on my toes even in the moments I could see a plot twist was on the way. She knows what it’s like to be seen as dangerous just for being herself, but she’s also idealistic and optimistic, and that really helps keep the core “the Avengers disbanded” narrative from getting too hopeless. Considering her character is a Muslim living in modern day America, she makes for an interesting window into the struggles of the Inhumans, with a perfect motivation to want to try and change things when even the Avengers have given up. Very early in the game she’s on the run, judged as being dangerous simply for who she is, despite not having actually done anything wrong. Kamala Khan is basically our window into life as an inhuman. So much fun is hidden in the upgrade path of each character Image: Crystal Dynamics/Square Enix via Polygon There are separate upgrade trees for light attacks, heavy attacks, ranged attack, and special abilities, with upgrades ranging from new combos, to attacks that break through new kinds of defenses. While some abilities are locked behind leveling progression, you’ve usually got multiple upgrade options available at a given time, spread across different aspects of your character. As you play through the campaign or post-game missions, you gain experience in the background, occasionally earning skill points to spend on new abilities. Get in, let nothing stop you, get out.Ī big part of this simplicity is due to the fact that even by the end of the single-player campaign, you’ll have barely scratched the surface of most characters’ upgrade skill trees. It feels a lot like playing a Marvel-themed Dynasty Warriors game at its best moments you’re powerful as hell and are let loose to mow down waves of enemies that don’t stand a chance against you. The single-player campaign is largely a simplistic power fantasy It’s not a matter of if AIM will come for an Inhuman, but when. The Avengers are blamed, these new “inhumans” are treated as inherently dangerous, and the AIM corporation takes on the task of tracking down these newly created super-powered individuals. Some of these are beneficial, and some of them are people catching on fire uncontrollably. Due to a disastrous event seemingly caused by the Avengers, a bunch of regular humans unexpectedly develop super powers all across the American West Coast. The plot set up for Marvel’s Avengers is basically a take on the Inhumans story from the comics. She’s only the character who gets to have an arc, and grow, and develop as the game progresses, outside of the game’s villain. It’s assumed that you already know who these heroes are, and what they’re all about. While the rest of the Avengers all have roles to play in the game’s story mode, most of them are stuck on the periphery. Marvel work as this game’s main character is that she hasn’t really been explored in the Marvel Cinematic Universe yet, and has space to have her own narrative arc here that doesn’t feel like it’s treading on the toes of those movies.
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