It finally looks like the Avengers are starting to assemble in the gaming world, with Marvel Avengers arrival on Xbox Game Pass turning the games fortunes right around.

Upon its 2020 release, the Avengers team were greeted with a luke-warm reception. Fans were left disappointed with ‘convulated and uninspired menus with major bug issues’.

Broken matchmaking, reused environments and unimaginative enemies looked to make Crystal Dynamics action role-playing brawler doomed to stay in the unfortunate game category of ‘what could’ve been’. Even the release of post-launch content such as the War for Wakanda DLC didn’t look like it was going to pull the game out from the ashes.

That is until now, as it seems the developers decision to put the game on the Xbox Game pass is  paying off. Tony Stark and co have risen into the top 15 most played games on Xbox overall in the US since its arrival on the Game Pass. An impressive feat for a product which looked devoid of ideas.

Marvel's Avengers is in the Top 10 most popular games on Game Pass and has risen into the Top 15 Most Played Games on Xbox overall in the United States since being added to Game Pass last week

Definitely looks like entering the service saw a huge boost in player counts pic.twitter.com/XnStvPy22m

— Benji-Sales (@BenjiSales) October 5, 2021

However, this recent success should come as no surprise. The Xbox Game Pass has a track-record of helping to improve player numbers which means it should be no different for Stan Lees superheroes.

The big question now is whether Crystal Dynamic are able to transfer this new-found popularity into a long-term plan for the games future.

As previously mentioned, players were not overly impressed with what they were offered at first. Upon launch, Kataku reviewer Mike Fahey specifically criticised the games repetitive features and lack of content. He wasn’t alone.

“We need new content. New enemies. New game mechanics…The initial excitement over playing beloved superheroes has dulled, thanks to a lack of variety in late-game content”.

For a property of this magnitude, Marvel’s Avengers should’ve taken advantage of the Marvel hysteria infecting the globe right now. Instead, everything just felt a little too rushed. However, the signs that Crystal Dynamic can turn it around after this are starting to look promising.

The games above-mentioned War for Wakanda DLC and the upcoming Spider-man DLC look to add a lot more free content for players to divulge in- even if the latter is only available for Playstation users.

Crystal Dynamics also put out a recent and well-received next-gen update for the game on Xbox Series X.

Let’s just hope Crystal Dynamic will take  advantage of this recent success so all our Marvel gaming fantasies are properly fulfilled.

If you want to jump in on the all the action, Marvel’s Avengers is available now on PS4 and Xbox One here.

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The highly-anticipated DLC for Marvel’s Avengers drops in under 24 hours and there is now an insight into what we can expect

A familiar face is about to join Marvel’s Avengers in ways fans have yet to experience him.

War for Wakanda DLC is the latest instalment that will be added to the action role-playing brawler video game. Developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix, we shall also be reunited with the Black Panther himself, T’challa, voiced by Christopher Judge.

Comic Book Resources (CBR) spoke to the development team behind War for Wakanda, explaining what fans can expect from the DLC in terms of the gameplay and the characters involved.

War For Wakanda DLC

Hannah MacLeod, Writer, stated that the biggest thing the development team wanted to focus on was how T’Challa comes with an entire nation and go into depth with his character through that. She also mentions the team wanted to focus on how the characters fit into the overall story side of things with the Kree invasion (the main story arc in the DLC), and not just from a fan’s point of view.

Scott Walters, Senior Designer, goes onto explain how T’Challa addition to Marvel’s Avengers works with the rest of the Avengers and how they didn’t want to make anyone underpowered or overpowered because, “at the end of the day, we want everyone to have fun regardless of the hero they pick.”

T’Challa is going to be very much about buffing and debuffing both players and enemies alike. His skills of combat include; light combo, heavy combo, range attacks, and heroics. Walters goes onto describe if fans want to gain the most out of Black Panther, they will need to learn “the nuance of the skills, the rotation in which to apply them, and how to maintain all of those buffs and debuffs to be most effective.”

Players will get to play as Black Panther as well as explore the Wakanda biome, a brand new biome that stands out from all the biome previously featured, due to being outside of the US, and features the “technological utopia blended with nature” fans see in the MCU adaptation.

Also from the MCU adaption, we met Ulysses Klaue, who will be the main enemy for players to defeat but will see him in a new, unexplored light.

He was also really fun to tap into just in terms of his personal vendetta against Wakanda. It’s so similar to T’Challa’s backstory; they’ve both lost fathers to things that they consider unfair. It makes them almost alike enough to be dangerous, almost as if they’re too similar to be in the same room without butting heads. It wasn’t about just getting a big bad to punch; Klaue is someone who could say just the right things to make T’Challa snap. – Scott Walters, CBR.

Ulysses will be incredibly tech-savvy in the game with his sonic technology that the development team had fun creating a new damage type and a new enemy archetype. Players can expect to fight enemies with this sonic technology along with drones that will disorientate the player which you can tackle in solo or multiplayer.

A level of customisation can be expected for players with heroic upgrades and to the skills as well as through gear perks for players to tailor and fit T’Challa to fit their playstyle.

With the new War for Wakanda DLC attracting more Black Panther only fans, and this DLC being the latest instalment to a long campaign game, the development team wanted to make the campaign accessible to those playing the DLC by including the option to easily access it from the main menu. Fans that only want to play the War for Wakanda DLC can expect some spoilers from the main campaign but will be free to enjoy it for the DLC only nonetheless.

War for Wakanda DLC will be available on August 17 and added to Marvel’s Avengers at no additional cost for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Stadia and PC.

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More information has been released for Marvel’s Avengers Black Panther DLC

The long-awaited Black Panther DLC comes to Marvel’s Avengers next month and new information has been released regarding what players can expect.

If you aren’t familiar with the game, Marvel’s Avengers, developed by Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix, is an action role-playing brawler game that came out last year and features a wide array of classic superheroes that is constantly releasing DLCs for fans to enjoy.

War for Wakanda DLC

Black Panther’s T’Challa was one of the most highly anticipated characters to appear on the roster after its initial release, however, with the sudden passing of Chadwick Boseman last year, the developers decided to postpone the release. Currently, the future of Marvel’s Avengers is unknown after reports of staff moving to an unannounced project by Crystal Dynamics and the game’s sales decreasing, but the studio is on track to bring Wakanda to the game.

In order to give Marvel’s Avengers’ T’Challa his own unique perspective and help craft the game’s story, Square Enix hired Evan Narcisse as a Narrative Consultant and looked to his Rise of the Black Panther 2018 comic. In this, T’Challa is already well-established as the Black Panther and Wakanda’s ruler. He lacks a certain sense of doubt, thinking he has all the answers, and Narcisse explains that is the source of some of Wakanda’s troubles:

I think one of the cool things in this expansion is there’s tension between him and Shuri like we haven’t seen before about how best to move Wakanda forward. – Evan Narcisse

Ulysses Klaw, played by Andy Serkis in the MCU version, will also be making an appearance in the DLC. He also gains a corrupted vibranium form that gives him similar powers to those in the comics.

Christopher Judge to voice T’Challa

It has also been released in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that God of War‘s voice actor  Christoper Judge will be lending his voice to the role of T’Challa. In the interview, he explains how he initially turned the role down due to being fearful of being compared to the late Chadwick Boseman, yet has decided to let his performance stand on its own.

The War for Wakanda DLC releases in August and will hopefully enrich Marvel’s Avengers with new storylines and iconic worldbuilding.

Fans can be introduced to Evan Narcisse and Christopher Judge in a livestream later today on the Crystal Dynamics Twitch channel, at 17:30 GMT.

me and god-king @iamchrisjudge are going to be on the @PlayAvengers Twitch livestream tomorrow talking about #BlackPanther and War for Wakanda. https://t.co/ittoLQdB0p

— Evan Narcisse (@EvNarc) July 15, 2021

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