Marvel’s Avengers @ E3 2019

We all knew it was coming but were we prepared? First revealed with a very short trailer in January 2017, the Marvel epic Avengers went quiet for over two years until this year at E3 when the world was finally given a taste of how the game will look and play. During a developer panel talk at the E3 Coliseum we were granted some more information.

It’s Avengers Day. A celebration of The Avengers setting up a west coast headquarters in San Francisco. That is until an unknown enemy attacks the Golden Gate Bridge and the superhero squad go to deal with threat. But the attack was only a diversion to steal experimental technology from the Avengers helicarrier, the Chimera. A diversion that seemingly costs Captain America his life and almost levels the city, causing the Avengers to disband due to outside pressure branding them villains because it was their secret technology that caused this catastrophe.

Weaved into the reveal trailer are snippets of gameplay. Each of the 5 heroes will have a different playstyle and move differently. The developers say that each character has been designed to play so uniquely that it should feel like the game was built entirely for them, as if they were the sole star of the show.

Iron Man for example can obviously fly and has many gadgets at his disposal to deal with enemies from range a from the air. Hulk can pick up huge objects and enemies and leap large distances and you will feel the weight and the power of the green giant. Even ground-based melee-combat heroes Captain America and Black Widow will feel different. Cap was trained by the military and his attacks will be direct and powerful, whereas Black Widow was trained as spy, her attacks will be more agile and stun focussed to incapacitate enemies. Thor will swing his mighty hammer Mjolnir for a flurry of lightning attacks.

The game story will be told over multiple years, starting with Avengers Day and jumping to 5 years after that devastating loss. Content will come regularly and completely free, ranging from new heroes to the roster and new regions to explore with multiple side missions. During the presentation we saw Hank Pym, AKA Ant-Man using his resizing technology to shrink a giant armoured walking tank. It’s uncertain at this point whether Pym will one of the playable character additions they talked about or if he’s an NPC within the main story campaign (or side mission).

Marvel’s Avengers is due to release in May 2020. 

You can pre-order it right now from The Game Collection.

- Nathan