The big controversy surrounding MvC I before its release has been about its visuals, and that was for a good reason. While most of the challenge mode combos aren’t too useful, they at least show some of the basic applications of the arsenal of moves at a character’s disposal.

However, it’s important to note that netcodes in fighting games are notoriously difficult to gauge due to a myriad of factors that could affect it. I could search for ranked matches with 3+ bars and have a good experience for three or four games in a row and then encounter an extremely laggy match that was nigh impossible to play. Outside of the story, all the other modes functioned about as well as you would expect, as I found challenge mode combos to be a decent jumping off point to see a character’s potential and the online mode worked well enough, for the most part. Even when I was finally able to fight against some proper combatants, I was stuck playing as the characters chosen by the story, and the big final boss was just a giant wall of HP to chip away at for ten minutes as he summoned even more waves of generic soldiers.Īs the credits rolled, I had to ask myself if it was better to not have a story mode at all if it’s going to be this bad, and while I would personally say yes, I could understand why someone else might disagree.

The fights in the story mode themselves were mostly against waves of brain dead generic soldiers that moved forward until they expired like a bunch of lemmings. I found myself constantly tempted to skip cutscenes, but I steeled my resolve to see it all the way through so I could judge it properly, and outside of two or three chuckle worthy one-liners, it was devoid of any charm.

The story mode takes the player through about an hour and a half of nonsensical world clashing nightmare, as aggressively boring as it is poorly written. Story, arcade, versus, challenge, training and online modes are all pretty mandatory at this point, and Capcom seems to have learned from their blunder with SFV by launching MvC I with all the aforementioned features. In that regard, what gamers have come to expect from a full-priced fighting game has changed as well. It’s been a long six years since the release of Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 and fighting games as a genre have come a long way. Many of these character models could easily be voted as the worst iteration of these classic characters yet.

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