A Couple of Marvel Trailers
First up, the debut trailer of Iron Man and Hulk: Heroes United confirms my suspicion that it will be crappy.
Stiff, stilted computer animation looks like it was done by a freshman design student. The dialogue appears to be nothing but cheap one-liners and weak banter. The villains are just a bunch of robots and/or additional Iron Man suits. This is a flimsy, boring work of drivel from a company that produces the best superhero stories and movies in the world. I expect better.
Next up is the latest trailer for Marvel Heroes, the upcoming Marvel-themed Massive Multiplayer Online game. I don’t know why I haven’t written about this game yet, probably due to lack of interest. And I don’t know why I’m not very interested in this game. It looks to be the next evolution of the Marvel: Ultimate Alliance games, and those were great.
Marvel Heroes wisely forgoes DC Comics’ attempt at an MMO, and instead lets you play as the actual superheroes. DC went with a City of Heroes-style game, where you design your own superhero and then fight alongside the Justice League. Marvel is going with a Diablo-like game, where you get to play as their superheroes in a dungeon-crawler-like environment. They’ve done a good job with that kind of series in the past, like I said, but something about this game has yet to really grab me. I think it’s the generic-ness that I’ve seen from the previews so far.
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 was based heavily on Civil War, the comic series that pit hero against hero. It was full of exciting cameos (Multiple Man! Prodigy!), and got really in depth for a video game. Marvel Heroes, so far, seems to be striving to be as generic as possible, probably to bring in as many players as possible. Plus all of the characters they’ve revealed so far are not among my list of favorites. So there’s nothing to get excited about…yet. If anything changes, I’ll let you know.
What do you guys think of movie and this game? Are you looking forward to both? Hating them both? Share your thoughts in the comments!
Posted on October 18, 2012, in Avengers, Cartoons, Marvel, Movies, Spider-Man, Video Games, X-Men and tagged Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United, Marvel Heroes. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.
Henchman-4-Hire 
None of the characters there are among your favorites? Not even Rocket-Raccoon? Also is it just me or Tony sounds like Spiderman?
Oh I like most of the heroes shown just fine, but none of my absolute favorites have really been shown so far. And this is going to sound very hipster of me, but Rocket Raccoon is starting to lose some of his charm now that he’s going mainstream.
If you play Marvel Heroes, then I’ll play Marvel Heroes.
We will definitely have to play Marvel Heroes! I keep seeing you sign onto Diablo and I kinda want to game with you, but I can’t work up the desire to stop playing WoW just to play Diablo. Now that we have good computers and Internet, Marvel Heroes might be the game we’ve been waiting for to actually game together.
Also, which Pokemon Black/White 2 do you have? Because if we can figure out that wi-fi thing, I could get the opposite game and we could trade the exclusive pokemon.
I have White 2
Also now that I’ve seen the trailer, I call dibs on Cyclops. And so I can also sound like I hipster, I liked Cyclops since the 90’s…before he was cool.