Marvel's Avengers players who ordered the deluxe editions of the game are suiting up as of today, and the developers are asking fans who have early access to keep the game's plot under wraps to not spoil it for less fortunate players. The long-in-the-making superhero game is a collaboration between Marvel and Square Enix, with the developers at Crystal Dynamics. The game takes a cast of Marvel Cinematic Universe-inspired heroes and changes them just enough to fit into Marvel's video game universe, which also contains Sony's Marvel's Spider-Man. The wall-crawler won't appear in the initial version of Marvel's Avengers, and he will be restricted to PlayStation platforms when he does swing in sometime in 2021.
Despite being an online-focused action game, Marvel's Avengers has a full story campaign depicting the team ing back together after a tragedy set the world against them. Without heroes, Advanced Idea Mechanics (or AIM) became an oppressive paramilitary force, stocking the world with an army of robots that provide great cannon fodder for Captain America, Thor, and the rest. Playing primarily as Ms. Marvel years after the world-changing "A-Day", the group must settle their differences and reunite to retake the world from the technocratic organization.
Discussing anything further about the story would go against the developer's wishes, as the its #DontSpoilTheEndgame campaign, which featured a certain period where fans were supposedly barred from revealing the details of the final film in the series. There's less riding on this new iteration of the Marvel universe, but it does have some twists and turns built in that players will likely want to see themselves. Considering that replies to the official tweet are already complaining about YouTube thumbnails, the requests are more than valid.
Because Marvel's Avengers is a live service game that needs to market its persistent world as well as its single-player story, some of the marketing has already dropped some pretty big hints about the game's narrative. For one, Captain America is shown to be dead at the start of the story, falling during the prologue mission shown at last year's E3. However, because he's a playable character in the multiplayer with his own movesets and cosmetics, it's almost guaranteed that Steve Rogers picks the shield back up by the end of the game.
As with any piece of big media like Marvel's Avengers, it's only good etiquette to wait a few weeks before talking openly about its story. While this new Square Enix game is setting up a whole new universe, there are obvious nods in the tale to past media, and true fans will want to feel surprised when they pop up. Of course, true fans will also probably be plowing through the story by the end of the week and then talking about the spoilers themselves. For the sake of the slower among the gaming public, it's probably best to follow the recommendation and let people have their unspoiled superhero fun.
Marvel's Avengers will be available on PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Google Stadia on September 4, 2020, and it will launch on Xbox Series X in November 2020 and on PS5 in Q4 2020.
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