Play Station Official Magazine - UK (2020-11)

REVIEW

067

REVIEW

INFO

FORMAT PS4, PS5

ETA OUT NOW (PS4),

TBC (PS5)

PUB SQUARE ENIX

DEV CRYSTAL

DYNAMICS

W

hile Marvel’s Avengers

is designed to be an

ongoing multiplayer

experience, its

campaign mode is fully

fleshed out (taking

11 hours or so), and

thanks to revolving

around Kamala Khan discovering her own

superpowers and reuniting the Avengers

ensures the game steps out of the shadow of

the MCU more easily than you’d expect.

Opening with Kamala and her dad exploring

the A-Day celebrations honouring the Avengers,

it immediately set the supers apart from their

cinematic counterparts, and when everything

goes wrong and the team are blamed for San

Francisco’s destruction in the Inhuman-creating

blast that give Kamala her polymorphic abilities,

it carries more weight because we’re in her shoes.

MISSING MARVELS

It’s a darker Avengers story, but Kamala’s quest

to reunite the Avengers is never without heart

and charm. The campaign is a joy to play, filled

with sensational set-pieces and twists and

turns that, while expected, are nonetheless

wonderfully executed. Brawling in the campaign

can be repetitive, though, as you only touch

the tip of your heroes’ RPG-style skill tree and

upgrade potential. Most enemies are AIM robots,

foot soldiers in hazmat suits, or masked mercs,

and supervillain boss fights are a little lacking.

Multiplayer missions are thrown into the mix,

but for the most part the campaign is a single-

player brawler with unique stages to play through,

whether that’s flying through a valley dodging

lasers or leaping across canyons in search of a

resistance base.

Kamala might be the heart of Marvel’s

Avengers, but there are plenty of occasions when

THOR BLIMEY @MrOscarTK

MARVEL’S

AVENGERS

Marvellously assembling a

platform for future heroics

067

REVIEW

INFO
FORMAT PS4, PS5
ETA OUT NOW (PS4),
TBC (PS5)
PUB SQUARE ENIX
DEV CRYSTAL
DYNAMICS

W

hile Marvel’s Avengers

is designed to be an

ongoing multiplayer

experience, its

campaign mode is fully

fleshed out (taking

11 hours or so), and

thanks to revolving

around Kamala Khan discovering her own

superpowers and reuniting the Avengers

ensures the game steps out of the shadow of

the MCU more easily than you’d expect.

Opening with Kamala and her dad exploring

the A-Day celebrations honouring the Avengers,

it immediately set the supers apart from their

cinematic counterparts, and when everything

goes wrong and the team are blamed for San

Francisco’s destruction in the Inhuman-creating

blast that give Kamala her polymorphic abilities,

it carries more weight because we’re in her shoes.

MISSING MARVELS

It’s a darker Avengers story, but Kamala’s quest

to reunite the Avengers is never without heart

and charm. The campaign is a joy to play, filled

with sensational set-pieces and twists and

turns that, while expected, are nonetheless

wonderfully executed. Brawling in the campaign

can be repetitive, though, as you only touch

the tip of your heroes’ RPG-style skill tree and

upgrade potential. Most enemies are AIM robots,

foot soldiers in hazmat suits, or masked mercs,

and supervillain boss fights are a little lacking.

Multiplayer missions are thrown into the mix,

but for the most part the campaign is a single-

player brawler with unique stages to play through,

whether that’s flying through a valley dodging

lasers or leaping across canyons in search of a

resistance base.

Kamala might be the heart of Marvel’s

Avengers, but there are plenty of occasions when

THORBLIMEY @MrOscarTK

MARVEL’S

AVENGERS

Marvellously assembling a

platform for future heroics