Something is Wrong with Marvel's Avengers! | Busy Gamer Review.

Marvel’s Avengers is the best, most forgettable game I think I’ve ever played. During the moment-to-moment gameplay, it was great, and I had a wonderful time, but when thinking about the whole package, I can’t really say it was a memorable game. This makes it hard to recommend, but also a game that I know a busy gamer could enjoy.

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Marvel’s Avenger picks up following a young Kamala Khan attending the Avengers Day event in San Francisco. This opening is a painful slog of a tutorial. Most of it could have been written as a cutscene and finished in about 3 minutes, but alas, you’re forced to guide Kamala through.

Don’t worry, it ends with everything going to hell after an attack on the Goldengate Bridge. Finally, you get to play as the titular Avengers, hoping between each hero as they help stop the attacks. But this section is a further tutorial where you fight through nameless redshirts as over-powered heroes.

This is a better and more exciting beginning, but it’s clear there is still a lot of hand holding. After stopping Taskmaster, the Chimera helicarrier blows up, kills a ton of people, mutates a whole bunch more, and the remaining Avengers go into hiding after taking the blame for the disaster.

The story picks up years later and you follow Kamala as see attempts to reassemble the Avengers to stop AIM and their evil experiments. This opening was a long, drawn out tutorial, and even as the game progresses, there is so much to teach the player that it continues to add tutorial like elements through most of the campaign.

This is partly because of the different mission elements and types, but also because the last member of the Avengers team is introduced in the 3rd mission from the end of the campaign. So even that far into the game, they have to teach you new skills and features.

Which is odd since they forced you through a brutal opening tutorial. It’s really dumb and repetitive design. The story itself is fine. It’s well written and mostly well performed. There are some cool set piece battles and a few interesting narrative twists, but the story feels small and more of a jumping off point for the longer MMO aspects of the game.

I do have an issue with the small number of recognizable villains. We want epic battles against well known villains and this game fails to deliver in this area. The only recognizable villains are Taskmaster, Abomination, and MODOK. And these boss fights are underwhelming, delivering more spectacle then challenge.

Overall, you won’t be upset by the story, but you’ll be left wanting. The best part of the game was the combat. Every Avenger is unique and has enough variety to make each enjoyable to play. Characters are easy to control, have a ton of upgradable skills, and have 3 special moves that are all satisfying to perform and a visual treat to see.

But there are two huge drawbacks. First, you don’t get half of the team until the last 3rd of the story and, second, you can’t switch between them during missions. This feels like a huge omission and there is no reason for the inability to hot-swap your heroes.

But it’s the focus on being an MMO that hurt Avengers the most. There are multiplayer mission’s structures thrown into the campaign and those missions feel like chores instead of amazing story set pieces. And as the story progresses, more and more MMO elements are added to the campaign.

Faction tasks, purchasable upgrades, and a cosmetics marketplace open and are completely unneeded to finish the story. Obviously, these elements are major pieces in an MMO, but makes the campaign feel like an extended tutorial serving as a jumping off point for the end-game content.

Sadly, the additional, non-story missions don’t have the depth and uniqueness of the campaign missions, so it’s just busy work for the grind, the glorious, glorious grind. On the bright side, if you really enjoy playing as these versions of the characters and don’t mind the repetitive mission structures, you’ll have a plethora of uninspired content.

Normally, we don’t comment much into technical glitches, but this game had a few to note. I got some seriously bad frame rate issues in the later missions. They were awful, and almost ruined a couple battles. A patch has been released which should help some of these issues but there is still much work to be done by the developers.

Marvel’s Avengers is a game you can have fun with if you don’t expect too much. The combat is great, and this iteration of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes is well done, but the choice to make this an MMO hampers what could have been and amazing Avengers experience.

If you have to get this game, I’d wait until the price drops and the issues have been patched. I did enjoy my time with it, but I’m not sure how much I’ll return to experience the extended MMO elements. So for Busy Gamers, Marvel’s Avengers is time, somewhat, well spent.

Let us know in the comments if you are still going to play Avengers even with the MMO hang-ups. If you really want a fun, over-the-top Avengers game check out our review of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order. It was our first review on this channel and we’ll have the link at the end of the video.

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