GNT: Go for broke! Get ready to fight! Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 is a fighting game made by Marvel and Capcom that released as a launch title for the Playstation Vita on February 22,2012. Game consists in forming two teams of 3 characters selected from the Marvel or Capcom roster in a crazy and flashy battle until a player loses. Game features offline modes like practice, mission mode, arcade and online mode. Consisting of 50 popular Marvel and Capcom characters like Wolverine, Captain America, Iron Man, Ryu, Morrigan, Frank West the roster hasn’t looked this good in years with the all new characters. The game fits all the craziness from the console title, but this time adding more content exclusively to the handheld. Controls feels smooth to play on the handheld and inputs work even better with the directional pad. Bringing all graphics featured in the console title to the handheld device doesn’t compromise at all the display of them, in fact it makes an astonishing work.
Artist Chris Cayco, who we’ve featured a few times before on Kotaku, grew up playing Marvel vs. Capcom (and Marvel vs. Street Fighter) games. His tribute to this, which took him over 175 hours, was to combine every single character to ever appear in Capcom’s crossover series in the one enormous image.
Makes me despise Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite that much more
So much wasted potential
As common as it is today, it is hard to believe that there was a time where gaming franchises crossing over was just a pipe dream. Capcom broke down the wall, but they took the combination of some of the most unlikely of franchises and made it the norm.
Whether it was a colossal successful partnership with Marvel Comics or a collaboration with rivals Namco and SNK, the “Vs.” series brought unforgettable experiences to the fighting genre.
Marvel doesn't just have a bright future ahead of it in films, but in the gaming realm as well. Some exciting new titles are showing up on all hardware, so does that mean gamers are finally catching up with the MCU?
