Marvel’s Avengers

After 120 hours of playtime and playing the endgame with 3 different heroes this is my review:
Realistic rating: 6.9/10 ( to be updated )
Fanboy rating: 9/10
to BUY or NOT
Buy if:
- You enjoy a good single player story
- Are a Marvel fanboy and can afford a 60€ game
- You like heroes and very good/fun combat system
- Playing together with your friends
Do not buy if:
- 60€ price is a bit too much in my opinion, this game should be 40€. So if you are tight with the money I would recommend waiting for the sale and a bit more content.
- Can't stand issues I mentioned under. Personally I encountered only a few of them, but its different for everyone.
Story: 8/10
I rarely follow the story in online games and usually just rush to the endgame but this one got me hooked up. It was really interesting and I wanted to know what comes next after every mission. It took me around 12-14 hours to beat it with breaks in between.
Heroes: 10/10
I don't remember the last time I couldn't make a choice about what class/character to play. Each hero feels unique and I think they really nailed it with this one.
You want to play glass canon ranged type? Iron Man
You want to play stealthy assassin? Black Widow
You want to play melee brawler? Thor
You want to play ranged hero but don't like Iron Man? Thor can do that as well. Every hero have multiple build options, be it melee/range/support/tank/skill spam. And every hero feels so different from each other it's crazy.
Combat: 9/10
Even though this is the biggest reason I'm playing this much I still can't give it max rating since there are some amazing games out there with better combat (like PS4 Spiderman). Still, the combat is this game is soooo fun. I think there are options for every type of play. You can juggle enemies forever or you can just use heavy ground attacks if you don't like juggling. U have light attacks as well if u want to attack fast. Then you have signature attacks, which are like special attacks ( Kamala's whirlwind spinning attack ). You can use more powerful atacks to build up stun meter faster and then you have Mastery tree. Some of the masteries completely change skills while other give various effects.
For example Ironman can choose between pulsor, beam and rocket passives, each of them improving it significantly.
Thor's Biofrost ultimate - You release a massive amount of energy which can either heal allies or burn / freeze enemies. Depending on your choices you can make a lot of different builds on the same hero.
Multiplayer: 3/10 ( to be updated )
When it works it's great, otherwise it's really really bad. Biggest problem are bugs, which developers acknowledged and are working on fixing them. Matchmaking seems to be broken, at first it didn't work at all, then it would only matchmake with 1 person instead of 3, now its somewhat better but it still needs to be improved. People can get stuck in mission loading, fall through the map leaving other players unable to progress unless they reset the checkpoint and even then it might not work. For example I played with my friend and we had to take an elevator to the next area. For some reason elevator was missing for me and all I could see was empty space. If I went inside I fell through the map and got respawned in the middle of the forest. Restarting checkpoint didn't fix it so we had to restart the whole mission.
Replayability: 6/10 ( to be updated )
This one is hard to judge as it's up to personal preference. Some people don't mind grinding same activity over and over again while others do so I'll break it down and let you decide.
There are currently 6 heroes in the game and if you want to max all of them it will take some time. If you only want one of them, it should not take more than 2-4 days depening how much u play. U reached the end game and it's time to gear up.
Shield vaults - you have to find a hidden shield vault ( which is usually in 1 of the 3 spots ) and beat 3 waves of enemies after which you get to loot the vault where you get resources and a piece of equipment ( elite version always gives legendary)
Hives - Normal hives are 5 floors and Elite hives are 6 floors. You go floor by floor, completing different objectives like kill enemies, defend allies, capture points. In the end you get a reward which is usually a legendary piece.
Elite heroic hive - is a special type of hive which is solo only activity. There are 14 floors, and it should take between 30min - 2hours depending on the difficulty. It is the only place at the moment where you can get exotic piece of gear and completing it with 100% improves the odds of getting it ( its still super hard, and heavy rng. Some people got it on their first try on easy difficulty while it took over 10+ runs for others on the hardest difficulty ).
Villain sector - there are 4 villains you can face and they give DNA keys as a reward which you use to open stronger version of boxes you find in the missions and they give more resources.
Drop zones - If you don't have much time to play, you can drop zones. They usually take only a few minutes to complete and reward you with ISO-8 artifacts, which is like trinkets in other games.
Harm virtual missions - Located on the Helicarrier, you have standard missions which give you random comic book and special ones which rotate and have different modifiers every rotation. They give specific comic books which give u small passive boosts when you complete a comic book set.
Hero specific missions - Some heroes have hero specific mission rewards, for example Thor. If you do his mission you get Thor specific legendary and I'm not 100% sure but I think it can also give unique Thor legendary ( will update ).
Faction missions - 120 hours and I have no idea what they do lol, probably reward you with faction exp after completing them.
Dailies - You get 1 villain and 8 normal missions for every faction, they are fairly easy to complete and you can do most of them just by playing the game.
Challenge card ( battle pass ) - have daily and weekly objectives. Some of them can be a bit harder but still doable. If you don't like it, you can refresh it once per day to get a new one.
As you can see there are multiple options with more stuff coming in the future ( like raids! ). Some people complain there's not much replayability, I think there's just enough to keep you going until we get more content ( unless you play 24/7 but even then you can rotate game modes so you don't get burned out )
Costumes:
There's been a lot of controversy around costumes and I'd like to make it as clear as possible. People are complaining about the costume prices and I think it's ridiculous. You DO NOT NEED TO OWN every single costume in the game. Every costume have a few color variations and there are multiple ways to obtain them:
Challenge card ( battle pass ) - If you buy the game you get a FREE battle pass for the 6 starting heroes. Every completed battle pass will give you 1300 premium currency and you only need 1000 for the upcoming ones. So if you complete them, you NEVER have to spend real money.
Marketplace - you can buy costumes with in game currency. It's grindy but real money free.
Patterns - You will find them inside the boxes that can be found while playing missions.
Overall:
So we have good story,heroes and combat. Replayability is decent. So whats so bad about this game?
There are many issues, like crashes, multiplayer can be a pain in the ass with people getting stuck before mission start or in the loading, performance issues, memory leaks, falling/getting stuck in the map, costumes disappearing, stat bug where you have almost 0 in all stats and do no damage are just some of them. The good part is developers made a reddit post where they regularly update bug status and progress.

Get it when it goes on sale.

This game is many different things to many different people. I'm no one special but here's what I know, and that I can share with all of you.
1 - I played the Beta, it was very buggy and crashy. Now, playing the day-one-release, I experienced 2 NPC related bugs in the first minutes...and after that...not a single bug or crash for the next 10 hours.
Considering the fixes since the Beta were most likely being done in a remote "work from home" scenario for the most part, I can assume they are taking this production seriously.
2 - I've only ever seen images of Ms.Marvel with oversized hands, so I don't know much about her at all. However her powers in this game are awesome and worthy of a junior Avenger. The story also develops her into an endearing character...even though her excessive Voice Overs can become annoying, but that can be adjusted with time and player feedback.
3 - The fighting style of every character is REALLY cool and fun to play. They feel really good in your hands...except for Ironman. It could just be me, but I'm not feeling it. Which is sad for me because I love Ironman. His parry needs some tweeking. Also, he's a better fighter in the air, but his flying is rough AF. Sad.
4 - With enough engagement from the community, I would imagine that they might continue to put resources into this game's development and with time and continued work, they just might be able to deliver an extended user experience that will be fun for every gamer who lives it and grows with it. (That weak DLC for $26.99 is not a good way to start though. Price too high, DLC too empty.)
If you made it here, I thank you kindly for reading my review.
If my opinions here change over time, I will correct myself and update them.
Happy Gaming!

wait for sale

Hulk smashes bad guys and your framerate.

First and foremost, do not pay full price for this game.
There is a good game underneath all the Destiny-type stuff, but the multiplayer severs seem pretty dead already on PC. I enjoyed the single player campaign but it definitely was not worth $60. If a 10-15 hour single player campaign brawler with Marvel characters appeals to you, I would still wait for a decent sale in the $20-$30 range.

Pros :
1. Story is surpisingly solid, with good voice acting and everything you'd expect from a good story. However, it will start to feel rushed as you progress.
2. Combat is fun, with every character feeling unique with a diverse moveset.
3. Quite a few cosmetics, although some of them are re-colors.
4. Diverse maps, ranging from wastelands to snowy mountains.
5. Multiplayer's fun when you play challenging missions.
6. Boss fights are also fun but there aren't a lot of them.
7. Fanservice that references comics, and they are somewhat frequent.
Cons :
1. The sidequests are fun, but there aren't a lot of them.
2. Not a lot of game-breaking bugs, but there are some bugs that are annoying, for example locking some cosmetics that you've already unlocked
3. Battlepass progression takes wayyyy too long, as there are only 4 challenges that allow you to get points daily.
4. PC version seems to suffer from less crashes and freezes compared to consoles, but the optimization in the game could be done better.
5. Enemy types are really diverse, but the faction types are not. Currently, there are only two enemy factions.
6. Endgame currency takes a bit too long to get.
7. Once you unlock all skills for a character, it's just gear and cosmetics grinding.
Conclusion :
7/10. Wait for sale if you're not a Marvel fan. If you're a Marvel fan, grab the standard edition.