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Square Enix' Big Reveal Is "The Avengers"

Posted: 27th January 2017 02:59

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Square Enix, through Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal (the folks you might know from, say, Tomb Raider and Deus Ex), just showed up in the world of Marvel. Yesterday, the company teased a reveal for today; right in line with the company's profile, that reveal showed up on Marvel's Twitter account this morning in the form of a fifty-one-second trailer. In it, Hulk, Thor, Iron Man and Cap all appear as wrecked versions of their accouterments, with a broken pair of Banner's glasses, Thor's hammer, a discarded arm from Stark's suit, and Rogers' vibranium shield, all in rubble.

The theme of the video is "#reassemble," which implies to me that the plot of whatever game this might be could slot in to the Marvel Cinematic Universe somewhere between last year's Captain America: Civil War and next year's Avengers: Infinity War, but to be honest, I'm a little behind on the MCU movies and given the fact that we have no idea where the game is in development, it could well take place after Infinity War but before the fourth scheduled Avengers movie, or even later. I mean, I'm no insider - maybe it's not MCU at all, but frankly they'd be crazy not to figure it in there somehow.

That's all we know right now, but that's one heck of a teaser - one of the largest game developers in the world working (in theory) with what is probably the hottest global IP in entertainment right now. Pretty wild stuff, speculate away.

Source: Marvel Entertainment Twitter
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Posted: 27th January 2017 07:30

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I'm not expecting anything particularly impressive from this. I think they will be very reliant on the Avengers name to sell it. But I've been proven wrong before! (yesterday)

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Posted: 27th January 2017 14:35

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I'm not expecting anything particularly impressive from this. I think they will be very reliant on the Avengers name to sell it. But I've been proven wrong before! (yesterday)

Yeah, this came up in chat a little last night as well. My take on it is that Square have what I consider to be their best studios right now tied to it, and we have already seen plenty of Marvel/Avengers games that are F2P or other things that might be less appealing.

I'm holding out hope for Deus Ex Avengers, I'm not gonna lie.

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Posted: 28th January 2017 21:44

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If this ends up similar to X-Men Legends 1+2 or Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 1+2 (four games I really really like) then I'm interested. If it's a forgettable movie tie-in then... yeah "forgettable" basically says it all.

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Posted: 26th February 2017 23:22

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We've got confirmation now that the Square Enix game (and other Marvel games coming up) will have no tie-in to the MCU: http://io9.gizmodo.com/marvel-games-wont-b...-dec-1792745204

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Posted: 6th March 2017 04:40

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I think letting them off the MCU hook is a pretty good sign, since creative limitation is I think a big reason why games like this come out bland. It's also, of course, tricky because they have to balance between players ambivalent to Marvel and players who are super into Marvel.

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