Marvel Heroes
Marvel Heroes Marvel has become one of the most successful companies as of late. This is all thanks to the success of The Avengers movie that came out earlier this year. The movie exceeded everyones expectations and managed to eventually become the third highest grossing movie of all time. Most people expected The Dark Knight Rises to rule at the Box Office in 2012 but Batman has to settle for second place against The Avengers.
As popular as Marvel and some of its characters have become over the years, its criminal to think that an Avengers video game was not released to tie-in with the movie. A game was scheduled for release but was eventually cancelled by THQ. Apart from an uninspired fighting game out for the Kinect and Wii U later this year, no other The Avengers games have been planned.
The only alternative Marvel fans will have to settle for is the upcoming Marvel Heroes. Marvel Heroes is an upcoming MMORPG game. The great thing about the game is that it will be free-to-play so every Marvel fan will have a chance to play the game. DC released its own MMORPG game in 2011, but now it will be Marvels turn.
Sadly though, no official release date has been announced as of yet. The game was initially announced in development back in 2008. The original developer Cryptic Studios however cancelled the project altogether but the game was thankfully picked up by Gazillion Entertainment in 2009. With the buzz of The Avengers still on everyones minds, it might be a good idea to release the game soon before people lose interest.
Marvel Heroes will include a number of well-known and even lesser known characters from the extended Marvel universe. You can expect to play as the entire Avenger cast Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, Hawkeye), Cyclops, Wolverine and of course Spider-Man. There are a number of other Marvel characters you will get to play as too which even include the likes of Squirrel Girl and even Rocket Raccoon!
With a plethora of different characters available to play in this game, you can be sure to experience many of the unique powers and abilities these characters have. You can even give the characters different costumes too. If youre a fan of the movies, you can dress them up like you saw on the big screen or leave them be as their original comic book outfit.
Gameplay footage of the game was shown at the San Diego Comic Con earlier this year and the game is looking great. The game is being powered by Unreal Engine 3 and is shaping up to be one of the better looking free to play video games out there. Onlookers have pointed out that Marvel Heroes looks and plays a lot like a Diablo game. Not that this is a bad thing since the Diablo series are one of the most successful game franchises of all time. The game is even made by the original creators of the Diablo games anyway.
If you were a fan of the Marvel: Ultimate Alliance games that came out a few years ago, theres a chance you will love the upcoming Marvel Heroes games as well. The MMORPG game even has a story with Doctor Doom wrecking havoc on the Earth once again. Too bad a release date for the game wont be announced any time soon, but peoples interest in comic book heroes doesnt seem to be diminishing any time soon. The Avengers 2 movie will be out in 2015 and a number of both Marvel and DC movies are to be released in 2013 and 2014 as well.
