It’s been roughly over ten years since we’ve seen the crossover magic between Marvel Studios and Capcom, and we can still recall the good ol’ days playing the hard-to-find Xbox version of Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 for endless hours, just for the sake of pounding someone with a team-up 30-plus hit combo. Since that time, we’ve gotten the much more affordable – and accessible – Xbox Live version, complete with online play. But still, we needed a true sequel – and this week, we finally have it with Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. The story is pretty much nonsense, but if you’re buying a fighting game to get into the story, you might want to sit down with a role-playing game to get an idea what you’re missing.
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?
Finally a fighting game with a great character list!
Grabbing this today...
this game is fckin AMAZING!!!!!!!!!
Nice score