Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds hands-on
August 25, 2010 by Daniel van Leeuwen
Last year, most of the oldschool hardcore fighting games made their revival with titles like Tekken 6, King of Fighters 12 and Street Fighter 9. This year, Tatsunoko vs Capcom, Super Street Fighter 9 and Blazblue were added to that list.
By now, it’s has been almost 10 years since we have seen an iteration of the critically acclaimed Marvel vs Capcom series, so it surprised none when the sequel, Marvel Vs Capcom 3 was announced for release next year.
This past GamesCom, we had the opportunity to try out the next step in the Marvel Vs Capcom legacy with our own hands.
For those who don’t know Marvel vs Capcom, it is a sidescroller Fighting game with characters from both Marvel and Capcom that fight against each other. The previous game (Marvel Vs. Capcom 2) is still very popular and was played by millions. Because the previous game was so incredibly well received, making a sequel that is even better is no easy task, but it seems like the developers are on the right track.
In Marvel vs. Capcom 2 you had 56 playable characters to choose from. However, there were some complaints that some characters felt unbalanced. Some even seemed useless, and overall very un-balanced. Some characters had suspiciously similar play-styles to others. This time around, Capcom announced that they didn’t want to include 56 characters, but instead go for a total of around 20 to 30. This to ensure each character’s uniqueness, striving for a balanced lineup overall.
A lot of new characters will be introduced In Marvel vs Capcom 3, and so far, 16 characters have been announced. The Capcom characters include: Danta, Felicia, Ryu, Morrigan, Chris redfield, Trish, Chun-Li and Amaterasu. It seems that Capcom has taken characters from all of their franchises, instead of just looking at Street Fighter. This is a very nice move of CapComs’ and brings some well-deserved variety. On the opposing side, we have Marvel with the more standard lineup, including Captain America, Iron man, Deadpool, Hulk, Wolverine, Thor, Doctor Doom and Super-Skrull.
The game looks pretty cool and as we’re used to from Marvel vs Capcom games, all the attacks and combo’s are rendered in all their colorful special-effect glory. From our preview, we’d say that the developers tried to combine all of the good points from both Super Street Fighter IV, and Tastuko vs Capcom, kept it close to the roots of Marvel vs Capcom, and succeeded. If you’re a fan of fighting games then will definetely be on your must-buy list when released somewhere next year for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.
Great article! But i think i am missing a part.. Something that has to do with the writer meeting Ryota Niitsuma