After a loud reveal and some unusuallegal issues,Marvel Rivalsison the cusp of release, and NetEase has confirmed the game’s release time.
Marvel Rivalswill be available on PC through Steam and the Epic Games Store, plus PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X and S.
According to NetEase,Marvel Rivalscomes out on December 6 at 00:00 UTC. If you want to jump into the action as soon as the clock strikes midnight in London, you can pre-load the game starting December 4 at 00:00 UTC.
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Unfortunately, much likeSTALKER 2last month, the option to pre-load the game is restricted to Steam and Epic Games Strore users.
The latest information on system requirements saysMarvel Rivalsrequires 70 GB of disk space, which could translate intoa lengthy downloaddepending on the server loads.
If you are a console gamer, this is your call to do a little clean-up on your storage drive, lest you end up fumbling to delete games and three-years oldOverwatchtrickshot compilations while everyone else downloads Marvel Rivals.
A Super Hero Shooter
The hero shooter concept as we know it is about a decade old, though you could argueTeam Fortress 2did it first well before that.
After a meteoric rise withOverwatchandBattleborn,the genre is in a creativity crisis today.
In 2023, Blizzard tried to replicate its initial success by releasingOverwatch 2, ending up with a game that felt like a parody of the original and did not answer the key question from its player base: “why should I care about this?”
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Adding insult to injury, the game had a player surge this year when it addeda ‘Classic Overwatch’ modeinspired by the original.
No hero shooter had it harder thanConcordthough. Firewalk Studios had spent $200 million into the project by the time Sony acquired it, which led toanother $200 millioninvested.
The game came out on August 23, but it died an unceremonious death two weeks later when Sony announced it would kill the servers and refund players due topoor sales.
AsFirewalk Studios come to an endin the aftermath of theConcorddisaster, the hope is thatNetEase can leveragethe popularity of the Marvel IPto make a hero shooter that emphasized the ‘hero’ part, bringing some much needed freshness to the genre.
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