Developer Crystal Dynamics has revealed that the Marvel's Avengers expansion, Black Panther - War for Wakanda, will bring the game's total story length to 25 hours. The superhero brawler released back in September 2020, but it was met with criticism due to technical issues and a lack of interesting content. Crystal Dynamics has continued to the game through ongoing free updates.
Marvel's Avengers' expansion, War for Wakanda, promises to be the game's most extensive update so far. God of War's Kratos, will portray Black Panther throughout the expansion.
Crystal Dynamics recently told Entertainment Weekly that the War for Wakanda expansion will bring Marvel's Avengers' total story length to about 25 hours. The game has already received two smaller "Operation" add-ons, Taking Aim and Future Imperfect, which act as a continuation of the title's base campaign Reassembled. While some fans misinterpreted Crystal Dynamics' statement to mean that War for Wakanda itself is 25 hours in length, Game and Narrative Designed Keano Raubun set the record straight on Twitter. Raubun explained that the entirety of the Marvel's Avengers story, including the base campaign, both Operations and the War for Wakanda, will be roughly 25 hours total.
Crystal Dynamics is working hard to ensure that its interpretations of both Wakanda and Black Panther are true to the Marvel Comics source material. The developer even recruited Spider-Man: Miles Morales writer Evan Narcisse to help create Marvel's Avengers' Wakanda, adding an extra layer of authenticity to the adaptation of the region. Narcisse, who wrote the highly-celebrated comic storyline Rise of the Black Panther, was a narrative consultant on Insomniac's Miles Morales title, which released in November 2020. The esteemed writer's consultation in War for Wakanda will help to bring Black Panther and his world to life.
Black Panther - War for Wakanda is shaping up to be possibly the biggest and best expansion that Marvel's Avengers has received. The base game's Reassembled campaign was quite lengthy, but the two previously-released Operations were only a handful of hours long. With the game's total runtime now exceeding 25 hours, it seems likely that Marvel's Avengers players will be spending a decent amount of time within the dense jungles and advanced cities of Wakanda when the expansion launches in August.
Marvel's Avengers is available on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and PC.
Source: Entertainment Weekly, Keano Raubun/Twitter
