Posts Tagged ‘Video Game’
Marvel Video Game Poll
brianregan09 has started a new poll in the forum for the best Marvel video games, and while it’s limited to the current generation of consoles, much to the dismay of us old fogeys that love SNES and arcade games, head over and voice your opinions. Are you a fan of the Ultimate Alliance games? Or something like Spider-Man Web of Shadows? Is the excitement for new Marvel vs. Capcom going to make you explode? Head over to the board to discuss!
SDCC 2010 – Super Hero Squad and Thor Video Game Round-up!
IGN has a preview of the upcoming Super Hero Squad Online MMO with a breakdown of the Helicarier, which serves as player housing. Apparently the environment is pretty interactive, and the review mentions how characters interact with objects… Hulk can lift crates, Daredevil will use the treadmill, characters gain performance benefits from collecting or using items. The game is starting to shape up!
Meanwhile, the THQ Super Hero Squad Infinity Gauntlet video game gets a preview over at Marvel.com (although you’ve already seen the Super Hero Squad Infinity Gauntlet trailer here last week.
Meanwhile, Sega’s upcoming Thor video game also gets a spot at Marvel.com. Here’s how they describe the game:
In the game, Thor battles through the numerous worlds of Norse mythology that span realms ranging from primal worlds of fire and ice to extraordinary planets inhabited by Frost Giants and Trolls to save Asgard, the capital city of the Norse Gods. Thor must overcome monstrous foes lifted from the pages of the comics including Ulik, Ymir, and Surtur, as well as other monstrous denizens. Players will wield the iconic Mjölnir, Thor’s legendary hammer, to fight enemies on an immense scale while controlling the elemental storm powers of lightning, thunder, and wind to vanquish enemies. As Thor earns Valor points through his exploits, players can acquire new abilities, powers, and weapon upgrades.
And while we’re talking about video games, hopefully we’ll get some more details soon about the Suicide Squad video game talked about over on Robot 6. Not much is known, but the phrase hyper violent keeps getting bandied about.
Sounds good right? Head over to the Rumor Buster message board to discuss!
THQ’s Super Hero Squad Infinity Gauntlet Trailer
Included in today’s The Super Hero Squad Show DVD was the trailer for the upcoming THQ The Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet video game. While the trailer is brief, new characters like the Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver and Thanos are shown, with oodles and oodles of Skrulls and game play mechanics similar to the first video game. While we wait for the game to arrive this November, here’s some screen caps to tide you over. Edit: And now we have the (internet premiere?) of the Infinity Gauntlet trailer
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Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions – Chronicles no more?
Big news hitting the internet today is that Activision’s new Spider-Man game will be called Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. In less reported news, the Spider-Man: Chronicles game Mark Hoffmeier had listed on his LinkedIn page, and which we mentioned way back in December 2009, was removed at some unknown point in time. Hopefully May’s Gamepro magazine will explain whether it’s just a name change.
Super Hero Squad DS
Nintendo Everything has a host of screen shots featuring the DS version of the upcoming Super Hero Squad video game. Hulk, Wolverine, Magneto, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America and Thor are all shown, while eagle-eyed viewers can see Mystique, those dagnabit AIM troopers, and big bad Doctor Doom
More Super Hero Squad Video Game News
In additional Super Hero Squad video game news, you can check out the official site with pictures of Thor, Juggernaut, Thing, Magneto, Dr. Doom, Wolverine (in what looks like the Savage Land, at least from the dinosaurs behind him), Hulk, some AIM soldiers, and even a Valhalla backdrop! Storm and Spider-Man are featured on the site art, and Spider-Man (and Iron Man, and the weird spikey-haired version of Sabretooth) has also been seen in the video game trailer mentioned earlier in the week. And you can also visit THQ for the screenshots, while Businesswire is one of the many places to read the THQ press release which explains the number of playable characters and play styles…
Set in the ever popular Marvel Universe, the Super Hero Squad is on a dire mission against Dr. Doom’s Lethal Legion of villains to recover the hidden Infinity Fractals; fragments of the all-powerful Infinity Sword. Each Infinity Fractal holds incredible power and can have significant effects on its possessor, giving each character special abilities that could alter the game’s rules and playing field. With more than 20 Marvel characters to mix and match, players can choose to take on the role of their favorite Super Heroes and Super Villains, such as Captain America, Dr. Doom, Falcon, Hulk, Iron Man, Juggernaut, Ms. Marvel, Silver Surfer, Thing, Thor and Wolverine, to name a few. Using character-specific super powers and customized combo attacks, players will blast, punch, and bash in fast-moving combat with their nemesis. Players can either jump into a battle arena against up to three opponents in Battle Mode, or choose to relive six campaigns as depicted from the animated series in Adventure Mode. Marvel Super Hero Squad is an immersive, single and multiplayer game filled with dramatic, interactive environments where players are given extraordinary powers to fight for good or evil, depending on which Super Hero Squad character they chose to play as.
For more information on the Marvel Super Hero Squad video game, please visit www.marvelshsgame.com. Information on the rest of THQ’s line-up of family-friendly titles is available on www.playthq.com.
Super Hero Squad Video Game and Cartoon News
IGN has an interview with the Super Hero Squad cartoon’s writer Mark Hoffmeier on the upcoming show and video game, which he says it’s like “a playable lost episode of the series”. There’s mention that Spider-Man is off-limits due to contract exclusivity (which is nice to finally hear) and that he thinks “a lot of it just depends on how Marvel negotiates its deals” (which is sadly the reason why we can have Wolverine and Iron Man appearing contemporaneously in their own shows). It also includes a pretty handy summary of the video game:
So what’s the basic setup for the story in the game?
Mark: It’s the same basic setup for the series. Doctor Doom is out to collect fractals of the Infinity Sword and they’re referred to as Infinity Fractals. The backstory on the series and the game is that Doom was trying to get possession of the sword, but Iron Man and the Hero Squad intervened and stopped him. Shards of fractals reigned down over the whole world and so throughout the series Iron Man will detect one, Doctor Doom will detect one, and then they’ll battle to get these shards. In the game what’s different is that Doom is trying to collect enough of them to create a miniature Infinity Sword. At one point in the game, he will actually succeed in doing that and the Super Hero Squad will have to stop him. What’s great is that you’re not going to get to see that in the series in the same way you get to see it in the game.
