What you need to know
- Marvel's Avengers is an upcoming action game from Square Enix.
- It's supposed to launch in May 2020.
- Square Enix is going to improve the characters as the months go on.
- You can preorder Marvel's Avengers for $50 through Amazon.
Marvel's Avengers is an upcoming game from Square Enix, but the reveal didn't go as smoothly as the company anticipated. When Avengers was announced a few months ago, people criticized it for the "distorted" character faces and linearity of the mission. Instead of a sprawling adventure, the game came across as a linear brawler.
Developer Crystal Dynamics and publisher Square Enix have vowed to improve the game before its May 15, 2020 launch. Avengers Editorial Director Casey Lynch said the following in an interview with PCGamesN.
Everything about the game is going to continue to change as we polish, as we approach launch right now, but things that we've shown both at E3 and here, it's all been pre-alpha. There'll be changes to everything from the characters to a lot of what you see.
A Square Enix spokesperson added the following.
By changes, we're talking about polish. What we're doing is we are continuing to add detail to their character models, we're improving the lighting, we're improving the skin shading. So, what you're hopefully seeing is the characters continuing to look better as we get closer to launch. But in terms of changing character designs, that's not currently what we're looking at.
Hopefully, these changes will be significant enough so that gamers think the heroes look natural. However, only time will tell. PCGamesN added how Black Widow already looks better in the new gameplay footage.
The Avengers game takes place after a horrific event leaves San Francisco in ruins. The team has been disbanded for five years, but when an even bigger evil threatens the planet, it's up to you to assemble the crew and save the world once.
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After a horrific event leaves San Francisco in ruins, the Avengers are disbanded. However, an even bigger evil threatens the planet five years later, and it's up to you to assemble the crew and save everyone.
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