First Look: Marvel Heroes
Diablo meets the Marvel Universe, from the man who made Diablo.
You may be asking yourself what Marvel Heroes is and why you should care about its first-look trailer. Well, for one, it has the word Marvel in it, so every geek will be playing it. For another, it’s a free-to-play action-RPG MMO created by David Brevik, yes, the same David Brevik behind Diablo. So think Diablo meets the Marvel Universe.
The pitch is Action-RPG combat in an MMO world: team up with friends or play solo through randomly generated environments that are different every time. You collect and play as your favourite Marvel Super Heroes: Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, Captain America, Wolverine, Hulk and many more, drawn from the Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four and every corner of the universe, building each one out of a library of powers appropriate to that hero and dressing them in costumes pulled from Marvel’s history.
There’s an endless variety of gear to chase, a story crafted by comic-book super-scribe Brian Michael Bendis, and a tour of famous locations from Avengers Tower to Mutant Town to the Savage Land, all while smashing through hordes of iconic villains. It’s only a trailer for now, but with the creator of Diablo at the helm and the entire Marvel roster to draw on, this one’s firmly on our radar.
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