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“So Kamala, in our game,
she’s the sixth playable character,
but she is the protagonist of our
campaign,” explains Scot Amos,
Crystal Dynamics’ head of studio.
From the very first teaser trailer,
Amos says, she’s been teased – it
was Ms. Marvel who narrated that
initial reveal.
“From the beginning of making
this game she’s been that core,”
says Amos. “I think there’s an
amazing synchronicity between the
player’s perspective and Kamala’s
perspective that will help really
pull them all together.”
Having won a fan fiction contest
to attend the ill-fated A-Day
celebrations that doom the
Avengers, Kamala is an accidental
hero in the making. Acquiring her
Inhuman powers from the Terrigen
Mist unleashed during the attack,
she picks up the torch five years
later to reassemble the Avengers
team. Kamala is an outsider thrustinto the superhero game. She’s our
way into this world of green Hulks
and world-ending threats.MARVELLOUS MIGHT
So what’s special about her? “She
can bend and stretch her body into
all kinds of crazy shapes and sizes,
which gives her an amazing new,
very fluid combat,” says Amos.
“[We had to ask] ‘How does she
stretch? How does she punch?
How does she grow? How does
she shrink?’ And for us, it’s this
amazing power that has really
changed our combat system.”
Broadly the answer to all these
questions is: very well. We’ve hadtime to play around with all of the
heroes, but Ms. Marvel the most
extensively, and she is terrific fun
to play as. She’s melee-focussed
and has the combos to match as
we whale on AIM soldiers –
hitting r for light attacks and
then wrapping things up with w
for heavy attacks to end with
different finishers, some more
suited to dishing out direct
damage or hitting a wider spread
of enemies. Reduce an enemy’shealth enough and a
combination of w and
e will perform a
scripted finishing move.
So far, so superhero brawler. But
it’s incredibly slick, polished, and
responsive, with Ms. Marvel able
to dish out smackdowns at speed.
Simply double-tap q and she’s
able to stretch out her arms to
grapple to far-off ledges mid-jump,
while dodging using e not only
stops enemy hits from landing
but allows her to follow up with
unique attacks, such as an
air-launching sweeping kick by
pressing r.SHE KHAN DO IT!
Even with a large number of
powerful enemies coming at us
we’re able to control the crowd,
zipping between enemies who will
pick us off with long-ranged guns
if we leave them unchecked. By
holding p we’re able to aim her
long-distance elastic punches, and
her assault heroic on u unleashes
a massive fist with some range too.
All heroic skills are on their“[MS. MARVEL’S] AMAZING
POWER HAS REALLY CHANGED
OUR COMBAT SYSTEM.”
Kamala’s mitts can grow in
size thanks to her powers.
No jar of salsa is too
tight for her to open.we can all identify with
new hero Kamala, and
her interactions with her
heroes are a hoot.While the action begins out
west in san francisco, this
adventure will take you
much further afield.