It’s been quite some time since we last talked about Marvel Universe, the upcoming MMO from Secret Identity Studios and Gazillion Entertainment. Originally in developement years ago by Cryptic in a partnership with Microsoft, that game was canned and now it’s under Gazillion as part of their decade-long partnership with Marvel.
Back in April of this year, Marvel announced that this new Marvel MMO was on the way and since then, The Marvel Massively Multiplayer Society has been slowly revealing details, most importantly that the game allows players to play as their favorite characters from Marvel’s vast library and that it’s free-to-play. Today, we’ve gathered the character images released thus far.
Before we get to the pretty pics, we can recap a details which have been confirmed. Marvel man Brian Michael Bendis is the game’s head writer and in late April, when MMMSociety held a little event for Marvel Universe Online, they revealed a few of the characters that will be playable.
Dr. Doom is the primary villain of the game and it will launch with more playable characters than any other Marvel title to date. Flagship characters who are currently getting the spotlight in cinemas with their own feature films are obvious inclusions (Spider-Man, Captain America, Thor, the X-Men etc.), but for the Marvel hardcore, obscure characters like Nova and Squirrel Girl will be playable as well.
Throughout the summer and leading up to now, including San Diego and New York Comic-Cons each revealed an image/character from the game and we’ve gathered them below. They’re mainstay unsurprising reveals and the graphics are nothing to write home about but we’ll take what we can get.
The logo and poster were revealed first, followed by obvious fan favorites like X-Men poster boy Wolverine, the first Avenger, Captain America, the Merc with a Mouth, Deadpool and last but not least, the time-travelling mutant with a big-ass gun, Cable.
The character designs are going for more of a cartoon/comic book feel over lifelike designs so that may bring some to question how much to the ‘core MMO’ market this game will appeal, especially if it’s free-to-play. But until we see some gameplay and have an idea of how deep this experience really is, we can’t say too much about it or how it’s “massive” if the game is limited to a set amount of existing canon characters.
The other question mark is around what platforms Marvel Universe will be playable on. We know it’s coming to PC but with DC Universe Online, now free to play, on PS3, will Marvel re-team with Microsoft to put this game on the Xbox 360 or its as-of-yet-unannounced successor?
What do you think of Marvel Universe Online thus far and what platforms would you like to see it on?
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Source: MMMSociety
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they’ve said multiple times that this game will have the largest array of marvel characters to date, so i’m pretty pumped. not only that but players are supposedly gonna be able to fully customise their characters, which means we could mix and match different versions of a characters outfits (hopefully).
another thing i really like is that players can play as villains as well (or so that’s what we’ve been told), which could hint at alternate endings/solutions to story arcs/missions. which again is a pretty sick feature.
by the time this comes out i’ll have a better PC, b/c i’m getting sick of consoles (online wise). they’re either expensive and full of kids (360) or slow and infested with young adults who think they’re hardcore (psn).
There’s an insane amount of potential with this game and I’m excited for it.
It does however, need a TON of options, customization, progression and RPG elements to be deep and worthwhile. If it’s simplified, it won’t be fun for long, no matter how many characters there are.
I’ve been burned by the Marvel Ultimate Alliance games so I hope this one is done right.
giving each character their own skills would be an insanely long job, if they do do that though, they’ll more then likely copy/paste some skills but change stats to them (like in MUA 1/2 and league of legends).
i don’t really care much about the skills, but my story idea would be pretty cool, there could be 3 factions:
good (divided into the universes alliance groups (avengers, new avengers etc))
evil (same thing as good)
vigilantes (punisher, deadpool etc).
i agree with the customisation part, i don’t just wanna see recoloured versions of spidey and ironman flying around everywhere, my idea about mixing and matching armour versions is pretty cool, even somehting like alternate skins would be ok (if you can recolour them).
Completely agree Rob…
This game will be so much better than DCU, it makes no sense….
It just better be available for PS3.
I’m with you man… I’m really hoping it’ll be on PS3 as well.
I will be getting a new laptop soon though (i7 processor, 6GB RAM, 1GB dedicated graphics — I hope that’ll be enough to be able to run the Marvel MMO)
Hahahaha. Wolverine’s claws are way too long!
His claws wouldn’t fit into his forearms, they’d go up into his upper arms
making it impossible for him to bend at the elbow.
I know, right? I don’t understand the slightly over-exaggerated designs. I was hope for something more real.
Just noticed the claws as well.
It’s RIDICULOUSLY stupid
Still, this is early concept designs (to my knowledge), they can still fix these types of things.
WOOT! YES!! FINALLY ILL BE ABLE TO PLAY AS DEADPOOL!
I hope that we can play through different comic story arcs that we only had a taste of in the ultimate alliance series. Such as secret war, civil war and some new stuff like secret invasion, dark reign, and siege.
That would be sweet. With Bendis involved, and for a very long time, it sounds like there will be a lot of content like that from the comics.
It is said from Bendis that no corner of the Marvel Universe will be unturned. So pretty much the game should have a deep length into playing. And being able to play as villains gives us the option to change the storyline of some of our favorite events.
Look i played DC universe online for ps3 but its not that good to me because im a big die hard marvel fan and i hope they do put it on ps3 so that they can beat DC ass on the ratings for best mmo online game my favorite character is always goin to be the first avenger cptn America i tried to make a cptn America on DC universe but its just not the same so please put it on ps3 and i will play that game all the time and buy all the dlc game packs^_^