The Marvel Games panel is set for San Diego Comic-Con with a lot of the various producers providing fans with a glimpse of their upcoming projects.
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With Spider-Man on PS4 being shown off recently, we’re expecting to hear more about Insomniac’s open-world superhero title, but hopefully we learn more about their other titles.
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 and Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite were announced for many platorms.
Marvel Heroes Omega recently debuted on PS4 and Xbox One, so they could announce some new playable characters coming to the game.
Maybe we’ll hear more about SQUARE ENIX’s Avengers game?
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Marvel Powers VR
Bill Rosemann and Mike Jones from Marvel Games were introduced by moderator Greg Miller, giving a brief overview about their history with the company. They then brought out various developers of the games including Mat Kreamerย from Sanzaruย Games, Brett Elston of CAPCOM, Arthurย Parsons of TT Games, Justin Lambrosย of Telltale Games, and Bryan Intiharย of Insomniac Games.
They started the panel by talking about Sanzaru’s newly announced Marvel Powersย VR, revealed last week at D23. They partnered with Oculus for the game. Gameplay footage featured Captain Marvel, Hulk, Lockjaw, and Rocket taking out swarms of enemies with their various powers.
They said that the game will feature teamwork with playersย being able to play cooperatively and use their powers together.
“At Marvel, everything we do is storytelling,” Rosemannย said. Theย game will feature an all-new Masters of Evil made of A-List villains getting their hands on a Cosmic Cube. They break up reality into their own individual universes to rule.ย
They announced the fourth playable character as fan favorite Deadpool. The reveal footage showed Deadpoolย fighting Kree footsoldiersย with guns, swords, throwing stars, and a toilet plunger.
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
The latest fighting game was showcased, featuring Ultron, Mega Man X, Captain Marvel, and many other characters from the Capcom and Marvel franchises.
They said the game is inspired my the Age of Ultronย comic book which established a world where Ultronย won. Similarly, in MvC:I, the game begins with two universes merged with the characters figuring out how to stop the villains: Sigma and Ultron.
The panel revealed an exclusive trailer in which gameplayย forย Gamoraย of the Guardians of the Galaxy was revealed. Gamoraย utilizes swords and blasters in her rapid fighting style.
The trailer concluded with the debut of the Mind Stone, showing Gamora’sย Maximum Level special in which she slices up her foe then finishes him off with a blast from a giant laser cannon.
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2
The new LEGO game is a direct sequel to the first Marvel Super Heroes game in which Kang the Conqueror is the main villain.
The game will take place in different time periods, all stitched together in a big open world called Chronopolis.ย
Rosemann said the game is inspired by Avengers: Forever by Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco and that Busiekย is involved with writing the storyline.ย Parsons of TT Games said he’s happy to get to work alongside Busiek.
They announced Carnage and Venom for the game with a character reveal video, and also announced a hybrid of the two named Carnom would be playable in the game. Carnomย is a Big-Fig style character, like Hulk.
Moderator Greg Miller was announced as the voice of new character Howard the Duck as well as his armored alter ego Iron Duck.
They closed that portion with an announcement on a new trailer this Saturday that will contain 10 new character reveals.
Future Fight And Contest Of Champions
Though the developers weren’t in attendance, Rosemann revealed that Future Fight will have a Monsters Unleashed update in the future, including Kid Kaiju as a new character.
After Kid Kaiju, they’ll be introducing the classic X-Men villain Apocalypse. This comes in the wake of the inclusion of the X-Men characters in their ’90s attire.ย
They don’t have a release date for Apocalypse yet, but they’re working on that right now.
Contest of Champions was up next, and they revealed artwork for a new version of the Sinister Six for the Free-to-Play game. Spider-Man: Homecoming villain Vulture has been added to play the game as of today, with Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus to follow after.
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Spider-Man will release in 2018 for PlayStation 4.
