Marvel's Avengers Review - IGN

So far Marvel's Avengers' campaign has impressed, but its post-game is a repetitive mess.

[LordoftheCritics]

I give it a 6 as well.

[Christopher]

I give it a 5/10, but my 5/10 doesn't mean utter trash and totally broken like most review sites. It is entirely mediocre as a package, though. If you want to do some button pressing and fight through infuriating teams of enemies who are insanely annoying because they remove any potential for using most of your abilities and penalize you for being in melee range, this is the game for you. It has different characters and you might some more than others, but the name of the game in the end is "stun meter growth or you die."

The MTX are actually very well handled, but that could change down the line. Most cosmetics are just different colors of one skin out of 4 or 5 possibly unique ones for a character. You will spend time getting every character to 50 and then getting every character to the highest power rating. You will then spend even more time hunting for the drops for a specific slot that has the desired attribute bonuses and is a 5* item with the right bonuses on it that can be unlocked.

They say you can build characters how you want, but do note that gear for specific characters are heavily slanted towards what they expect you to play them as and finding gear for a character they think should be played range focused but in melee is hard.

[LordoftheCritics]

All of this.

I just hated Hulk.

[Christopher]

In the end, I have Hulk and Thor as my selected companions because they're much better support characters than they are mains. Hulk's gamma DOT and he heals way faster and takes a lot less damage as a companion than he does when you use him. And Thor's bifrost for healing and since AI is perfect aim his hammer throws actually are useful because they always hit opposed to trying to aim at moving targets when you play him.

Kamala is obviously the most powerful character, IMHO, for end game right now. Her R2+light attack or heavy attack is insane, let alone the R2 ability is all about not getting hit, the most important thing in the game. On top of that, her power attacks are all ranged, so you have better control of staying out of AE attacks.

[Magic_Spatula]

@Christopher
That's pretty much my team too. I main Cap cuz I find him to be the most fun to play as and I switch to Kamala every now and then but I always have Hulk and Thor on the team.

[TGGJustin]

It almost seems like only Sony knows how to put out good Marvel games. MUA3, Avengers, and Telltale's Guardians of the Galaxy were all just average games.

[gamer7804]

and honestly I much prefer the first two over mua3, that said I honestly didn’t like Spider-Man. So for me so far only rocksteady has done super heroes justice on consoles

[Dragonscale]

Nah, just because you didn't like spiderman doesnt mean Insomniac didn't do super heroes justice on console and is arguably better than the batman games, especially arkham knight. Spiderman is a great superhero game regardless of your dislike.

[rpvenom]

@Dragonscale

I played both games and though Spiderman was a great game.. I actually preferred Arkham Knight. Guess that's an unpopular opinion but Arkham Knight for me on my PS4 Pro was arguably game of the year that year for me. I know there's been issues on PC but it played perfectly on my Pro.

[4Sh0w]

He said for him...so thats his opinion just as its your opinion Spiderman was great. Its all subjective just like I think the Batman games are definitely the best super hero games. uhmm or at least the best highly trained super rich guy who can buy the best tech to fight bad guys games.

[spicelicka]

That's a random statement. Sony didn't make Spiderman, Insomniac did. It doesn't mean Sony "knows" how to put out good Marvel games, it just means Insomniac is a great developer and knows how to make a great game.

[RememberThe357]

Sony now owns Insomniac.

[spicelicka]

@RememberThe357

Yes and that doesn't have anything to with making good Marvel games. it's not like they actively hunted for a developer that makes Marvel games and consistently released really good Marvel games. There is no correlation.

[Christopher]

I think TGGJustin just indirectly complimented Activision :P

[DaveZero]

*Cough* HorseCrap *Cough*

[-Foxtrot]

Thought as much

It's probably not a "God Awful" game but like...it's the Avengers, it should have blown us away.

I mean in the UK the game sold less than a third of what Spider-Man sold on its opening week back in 2018 and it was during the same month. That's an exclusive focused on just one big Marvel hero compared to a multiplatform game featuring the Avengers.

Maybe developers should start focusing on single player driven comic book games.

[CorndogBurglar]

Exactly. They could have made this something incredible, with all the same characters. But made each character have their own storyline that tells a side of the overall story. They could interact with the other characters and storylines can crossover. Then the end is a huge mission including all the characters, and you could choose who you play as.

This certainly didn't need to be a Destiny-style GaaS game.

[gold_drake]

i agree, it was a "meh" experience at best.

[Inverno]

“it's the Avengers, it should have blown us away” I fully agree, and I think the same about StarWars, or any big/well known comic/movie/book series. You have all these huge publishers buying up the rights to big franchises and just shitting out mediocre game.

When games like the Arkham series and the recent Spiderman exist how do you go into making a super hero game, based on a comic book series that has been the biggest movie franchise of the last decade, and just put such a low amount of effort into it? Id strive to make something better than the movies… that I can milk as far as the movies have been lol

[kevinsheeks]

ill wait for it to drop in price

[phoenixwing]

I'm going to do that too. However there's always the possibility I'll forget about it. I mean I only want it to play the single player story-line that they say is okay.

[VerminSC]

Ouch

[Father__Merrin]

banana review as always lots of content will be added to this id like to see ign gametime with this

[Greg2801]

Wel IGN is one of the last big game sites who released a review. So they probably took their time with it.

And the review is for the game in its current state. Who says that the new content will be any good? They should have released the game with more content from the beginning

[CorndogBurglar]

Whoa! Don't be crazy man.

[Angyobangyo]

You used future tense. You don’t review a game based on future content that isn’t in the game yet. You see how stupid that is. Maybe you like reviewing roadmaps or something...

[jbull]

Boss battles were a big letdown and enemy variation.

[Christopher]

I thought enemy variation was fine, I just think people get stuck on the idea that they all look too similar. But, if they looked vastly different, the variation of them as far as abilities and concept would be enough.

[jbull]

But as an Avengers game you were expecting epic boss battles and we got very few, Hulk vs Abomination. For an Avengers game you expect more not having to wait for future dlc.

[Christopher]

@jbull: I do absolutely agree with the lack of more boss battles. It's essentially just Taskmaster, Abomination, and MODOK. I think they're going to introduce one new boss with each character. But, yeah, with the over 100 still legit and usable villains, they underdelivered on it in this game.

[ajax17]

so it's more like a 4, then? ign usually over rates the shit outta games

[BenRC01]

2 years too late and no likenesses. That and its crap.
Also, go back, find all those 9s and 10s and blacklist those sites forever.

[GoodGuy09]

Was wondering where the ign review was lol.

[autobotdan]

Hulk smash IGN!

[Elda]

I'm enjoying it so far. I'll give it an 8.

[slavish0]

U enjoyed anthem too soo 😒

[Elda]

So did you.

[Tedakin]

Yeah sadly pretty accurate. The parts in the campaign where it focuses on single player action are great, like the Golden Gate Bridge. But when it turns into open world Destiny looter shooter it's so repetitive and just a garbled mess. They should have focused on an amazing 15 hour single player experience in line with the opening and final levels....

[DaveZero]

A solid 7.5 from me with the chance of it rising with content drops released.

I seriously think alot jumped on the hate train because of the spiderman fiasco. I have an xbox and was very annoyed myself but do I miss spidey?? Not one bit, am I enjoying the game however very much so all the way and cant wait to see what content is brought out, new characters, Features and modes.

This game has potential and as much as I love the division and thought destiny was ok, this is my new favourite game of this type.

[chicken_in_the_corn]

It's good. Surpassed all of my expectations. I'd give it a 7 so far

[WelkinCole]

Not far from my 7. I mean at least its not as awful as I thought it would be.

[Blaze929]

Biggest hype flop of the year smh. But we suspected

[Stay-Toasty]

I've got it on performance mode and whenever I play as black widow and use her super the FR plummets. So far only as her though. God it's miserable playing as her too...