When you look at Hulk for example, Hulk is a massive damage dealer and he can take a ton of damage. “Every super is just as super as each other but all in their own unique ways.

I asked whether some heroes had to be weakened as a gameplay concession to level the playing field a bit. As the giant green beast who earlier smashed a tank with ease, I felt like my punches were weak, taking three or four hits to take down a regular human. I played as Hulk quite a bit in the beta, punching through a seemingly endless ocean of nameless guards and robots. Their answers weren’t exactly reassuring. Credit: Crystal dynamics / square enixĪfter playing the beta, I was able to ask Crystal Dynamics senior producer Shana Bryant and game designer Lauryn Ash about some of these points and get their take on what they’re trying to accomplish with the whole Avengers game and the beta. The experience in the beta can’t reasonably be extrapolated into a review of the full game. The missions selected for the beta are very generic. The random gear drops strewn around the world don’t feel appropriate for the setting. There are so many hordes of robots that I feel like I’m up against the Trade Federation’s army of droids in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. The combat is monotonous even with the variety of characters to play as, and the lack of enemy variety doesn’t help there. I played several hours of Marvel’s Avengers in a three-day closed beta on the PlayStation 4, which included the prologue and the beginning of the game’s main story, primarily starring Kamala Khan and the Hulk, along with a sprinkling of disconnected missions. The Marvel’s Avengers beta does not do that, and that’s worrying. A superhero video game should make players feel like they’re embodying that superhero.

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