Square Enix has unveiled a brand-new trailer for its upcoming Marvel’s Avengers game and, well, there’d have probably been a whole lot less fuss if they’d started with this in the first place.
Rather than parading a bunch of familiar heroes with weird faces and distractingly different voices about the place, the latest Marvel’s Avengers trailer gets right down to it, talking through the key mechanics of the Crystal-Dynamics-developed third-person action romp.
As we’re helpfully informed, Marvel’s Avengers kicks off on A-Day, as the costumed crime-fighting crew celebrates the opening of the Avengers West Coast Headquarters.
Skip ahead a bit and it’s all gone pear-shaped, with San Francisco in ruins, leading to the disbanding of the team. In their absence, a new organisation – Advanced Idea Mechanics (or AIM for short) – establishes itself, vowing to protect humanity. All of this, incidentally, features in the game’s tutorial which, if you missed it, Square showed in its entirety in August.
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Five years later, and with AIM’s robotic AI loose on the streets, Avengers fangirl Kamala Khan (who’s also playable in-game) enters the picture, vowing to prove her heroes’ innocence. And that’s where the whole thing kicks off in earnest, with players establishing a base of operations in a decommissioned Helicarrier, that will be upgraded as the story progresses.