Marvel Avengers Review - Averagers The Game _Buy_ Wait for Sale_ Never Touch

 at some point games shouldn't be called games as a service anymore if they are they should just be called griffs as a service because it is almost impossible now to track some of the ways these games try to get you whether it be consumables customizations monetizations or currencies they're all going to be jammed into the game to add to the supposed depth like somehow squeezing the side of a cup makes the water rise but doesn't change the actual amount inside however when square enix announced avengers i think a lot of people sat back and said you know what i like superheroes i like smashing people to death with a bunch of my friends let's see how this one turns out and then we heard about the various different battle passes and different ways customizations would work as well as different ways monetizations would work and i think a lot of people just threw up their hands and said you know what

i'm going to wait till this thing comes out and that's what we're going to discuss today this is my review in progress for avengers i'm going to be

covering all of the bits that i've played in the last 24 hours or so i've been up all night playing this not necessarily because i loved it but because i sort of wanted to do this video and talk to you guys all about it avengers has actually interested me keenly since it was originally announced so let's begin as you guys know less than 40 of the people who watch the videos are subscribed yet they continue to return again and again if you get a chance hit the subscribe button it helps or find somebody on youtube you like and maybe subscribe to them and thanks to square for a copy of the game as you guys know if even if a developer gives me a code i get a copy of the game and give it away to people so my hard earned cash is on the line just like yours

let's jump into this and discuss avengers graphics are up first so avengers actually shows up much improved for me from the beta hugely improved most of the large frame rate drops are absolutely gone and what you're left with here is an over-the-top action superhero smash him up if somewhat closed off in some of the locations you have characters pulling out supers like the hulk slaps his hands together the world's biggest and pretty much most epic high five overpressures the entire location and kills a bunch of bad guys then you switch over captain america leap into the air and throw your shield off the dome of like four enemy mercs who now unfortunately all have cte from the battle then you leap into the fight as black widow go invisible spawn a staff and proceed to gandalf the hell out of a ton of enemies that pick the wrong day to guard a door graphically the game is in love with particle effects and well and effects of all kinds with everyone even the more mortal of the characters like black widow having her fair share of moves that throw trailers off of everything from her boots to her hands that's not including the enemies as well who slash and dash and slide and shoot and stab and stealth around the game

world to try to take you on using all manner of environmental weapons luckily the designs for the characters are pretty good as well though the scale is a bit off just to make the game playable in fact you're going to hear a lot of that through this review or pre-review to make something work a lot of what you would expect in the game has to be handled in a particular way or it just probably wouldn't be here that being said the attacks are not bad at all some are

excellent like i said the hulk's hilarious over-the-top moves or thor's amazing moments just spinning that hammer or performing combos on enemiesthat being said i think we should all  take a moment of silence for black widows kneecaps that she apparently lost at wakanda i have no clue what's going on with half of these characters walking animations but it's like somebody went in there snipped their ligaments and said hey man go for a walk they all look really weird when they're moving around any of the normal locations that's not all though the one place where avenger absolutely fails it drops the ball utterly is in its level design whether it's snowy tundras or desert locations forest filled with teleporting enemies or some of the city locations it's just this nonsensical mess of artificial platforms stupid design broken locations i am blown away that all of these locations are this basic ignoring the more linear locations of which there are a staggering number where you basically go down into a small hallway through a door and into a room with some bad guys boom

mission over it's the larger areas that just they suck random planks and items sit out everywhere many times you just be running through a level and there's just a metal plate with a bunch of money on it you'd think a story based on a hidden military force would decide that the best way to hide everything would not be going by the old adage of sometimes you miss what's right in front of your face kind of design when it comes to their banks almost every single location has a large open area two or three ways around it and some platforms most conveniently placed so everyone can get to them just in case you know so you get a climbing participation award for a game that's asking everybody to repeat this content the lack of any destiny even level design in any location whatsoever in the game is atrocious it's unacceptable i can't believe this is even a thing it just looks bad we should expect more from a game like this

any game like this that's asking you to repeat this constant content and i am telling you all of the levels are like that everything looks like a

device or a design plot point to where it's just a floating container to hills with scratches on them for you to climb even the puzzles which run the extent of shooting two colored bulks to open up a door or  shocker four colored bulks to open a door it's almost lackadaisically placed luckily again you do have these very cool character designs but the locations themselves while initially looking very interesting completely fall apart as you play those

experiences even one if not two if not three if not ten times again also there are a number of graphical bugs for example captain america's face just melts in one of the particular costumes there's also a number of animation issues especially when you're attacking enemies where sometimes you'll hit them

and they'll fly one way or past you the wrong way where they're just not really affected and yes that's even if you're playing some of the games or

levels that you play solo none of this is going to matter if it doesn't run well i did say that the fps has dramatically improved from the beta and that's the absolute truth but it's not perfect 4k 60 is probably not going to be within most anyone's grasp regardless of hardware on the pc now there are some ways to get it running at close to that there is of course that very aggressive dynamic resolution system however on two pcs that i tested on thatdynamic resolution system got confused  over time and continued to downgrade the resolution and the only way to actually get it to anything remotely playable was to switch that off and then back on again it was a very odd decision with the 2080 ti i was able to actually do very well at 1440p with almost all the

settings on ultra but i do think 4k60 is going to be very difficult for a lot of people especially if you want it 60 locked now we can target anything target is sort of a cheat word it means yeah man we hope to get 60 at some point that's not the same thin what you want is fairly smooth fps throughout and even in this footage you will see it drop at times also bravo to these guys games got a ton of graphical effects that you can choose from most have examples it doesn't look terrible on low though i would say it takes medium to high to really get this stable heroes with enough power to stop a dinosaur extinction to really step up and look amazing lastly and very importantly check exclusive full screen on my pc exclusive full screen was 12 fps difference compared to

not i don't know if that'll be replicated on others avengers can look stunning but it also has a lot of small issues you will probably notice

and that brings us to sound music and voice and we'll do sound first and yeah i get a lot of people don't care about sound but i do especially in a game like this and it's pretty okay most of the battle sounds are fine bringing down an entire tesla tower worth electricity onto a single prison's head is thor

feels awesome the game will clap out thunder cracks and sizzling lightning is you pretty much turn him into a bipedal s'more battle and punches sound good

overall and things like that crazy ass dong sound that happens when you're dunking some jackass with captain america shield works really well what doesn't work really well are things like black widows guns they sound almost toy like compared to everyone else and footsteps are just movement sounds terrible and you think that wouldn't matter but in this game you're running in places between other places to clear out enemies from good guy spaces instead of running it sounds like someone's throwing wet socks onto a floor it just sounds weird and it's repetitive and it actually happens a lot just due to what you're playing lastly i ran into a very nasty bug sometimes actions and enemy sounds just didn't play at all like somebody cast a superpower of deafness on me no sounds the environmental stuff was occasionally there though it was lean but i couldn't hear the main attacks or the sounds and a reset of the game was needed and that brings us to music this is expectedly over the top it's suitably big movie sounding it's got a lot of combined elements and these hero moments that play out as you get up and close to the enemy's location and it sounds like you're gonna lead 500 knights into battle but it's just

you and iron man who won't shut the hell up no matter what you do lots of string sounds lots of horns lots of hero moment it is good and it is bombastic it's over the top it's theatrical but it also doesn't have a lot of spirit there's no particular track you're gonna hear here and be like man that reminds me of thispart in a game it's just sort of there as a background speaking of background let's talk about voice and yeah it's not the actors we all know

we have to take that for what it's worth it could be a lot worse you could have nothing i've seen a lot of people saying that they felt that no one really

sounded tonally like their voices were coming from the characters bodies in this game and i get it but look at mike tyson and listen to his voice sometimes voices just don't match the body i do admit with banner and captain america in particular their voices do not fit very well for those characters it just didn't really feel real to me what also didn't feel real is that nobody had any emotion it was like six people sitting down and being like we're superheroes and somebody else is like yeah you know okay whatever no matter what is happening on the screens huge apocalyptic events crazy ass delivery of exposition from bad guys so far it's been monotone and mediocre i do think camilla khan and especially in the first half of the single player does an incredible job it's a bit over the top with the oh my gosh it's iron man kind of bits still not bad this is a game that should probably have treated with a bit more

focus and emotional especially when you get most of the characters in the game repeating their one-liners 100 000 times and that brings us to game play and

playing a game like this 100 000 times first the single player game has layers to it that are far beyond the beta this is excellent it's surprising

it's certainly welcome this is a great starting for an avengers story i actually really liked it camilla khan has you going out you're in a contest for fans who write avengers fanfic with her being one of the writers and you're going to see who wins you explore this large park you get accustomed to some of the basic movements with in-game tutorials and playing various different things in an amusement park and just sort of moving around but something has to

happen otherwise it wouldn't need to the avengers for anything so nearby a bridge explodes the avengers show up in full force and that's where the beta if you played it is starting you get to go back and replay those moments jump in between the superheroes picking up how to parry and dodge what can be perry or

dodge what can't be parry or dodged and learning basic combos so that you can parry and dodge between them quickly you're thrust into this major story proper which is years after the event as the avengers are pretty much all around the world and camilla meets up with them and quickly as a team

they start getting to work putting the gila carrier back into the air this is not an easy feat and some of the missions in the story are based around

getting the actual system saved up and used you save some characters they show up on the carrier and you have to get different things for this all to move together i like that and it made the carrier feel a bit more like a base a giant friggin base that got really boring walking from one end to the other just

to talk to a vendor but nonetheless a big damn base as you continue on in that story you open up locations and at any time you can pretty much jump into the multiplayer the core to the avengers regardless of single player or multiplayer is to work through the story or the multiplayer with friends and bots you play in third person mode as i said before and you go into these missions that have the rewards posted for what you get if you complete them it's very much in the spirit of your warframes and your destinies if you expected anything else from this game this is probably not the right game for you

you take a jet to various locales around the world each mission is pretty basic though in its scenario if the story mission you're beating up enemies

along either linear locations contained mostly in tunnel complexes or underground bases or more open space like jungles and forests some deserts and more the larger areas are more open-ended and offer i think the best that avengers currently has to give as an offering it's a looter shooter scooter booter

you're running around collecting item collecting resources from the game world as you leap in lunge and explore fight off enemies by booting them with your big size five or size 400 boot depending on what size you are as camilla and join the rest of the avengers in combat combat is fairly simple though

it's got heavy and light attacks with unlockable combos or hold button combo presses mixed with parry and block systems this is based on a color coding of the enemy's attacks as they swing at you all the enemies can attack all the characters at once so it can get pretty cumbersome when in the larger battles or at least chaotic so be prepared for that most of the levels involve a couple waves of combat in a couple different places entering a location and then

figuring out what's going on in there as you go up and level you get challenge points for doing the various things as well as skill points these can be spent in four basic skill trees light heavy ranged attack as well as intrinsic ability for example iron man's intrinsics have to do with the suit kamalas have to do with her ability to shrink and expand and those skills there as you level them up also unlock specialty and master trees for utility

ranged efficiency and intrinsic as well now this can sound a bit like a bunch of skills overlapping but it's not necessarily like that and i'll get to that in a second i will say that i found a couple bugs here i'm assuming this will be patched out but in the mastery section in particular there's some confusion there because a couple of the different skills all say the exact same thing even the ones that are in the malay or up close fighting area talk about ranged

it looks like somehow copy paste didn't work there and some of that needs to be edited and cleaned up when it comes to the specialty and the mastery those are really how you solidify your gameplay style the skills are not bad while some unlock combos heavy attacks and stuns most of them are excellently connected to their characters like captain america's shield which starts out with this weak single enemy toss then it goes to three enemy killing

frisbees that basically leaves gaps where people's heads should be it's awesome iron man starts outfitting himself with all manner of lasers and rockets and

the hulk focuses rage to well rage more but sometimes rage more is just what you need using those specials jumping around with the different characters they do feel distinctly different there is a big difference between black widow and iron man there's a huge difference between how iron man and the hulk feels well there's pretty much a difference between everyone and how the hulk feels i think you're going to see a lot of people talking about that thor and iron man sort of overlap andyou could say captain america and black widow somewhat overlap but when you're playing the game there is a lot of difference in how they play not necessarily so much in the skills just even in the basic context of how they engage with things for example black widow has some stunningly cool counters that really end up making you able to be much more mobile than some of the others especially when you are countering made you feel like there's some range there in a way that maybe you weren't actually accustomed to everybody did have their own little segment it's just that as i continued on

their own little segment was just repeated over and over and over and over again and there doesn't seem to be a lot of diversity there  and that brings us to some of the oddities in the combat and just the lore it's sort of weird battles usually involve enemies in these locations are spawning in and then an

all-out knockdown drag out where you're taking out the enemies combining different normal attacks to build meters like the heroic attacks and using those on

the bigger enemies but a number of things hurt this firs it just feels weird hulk is massive yet even with the extra damage he never really feels

much stronger than anybody else and people might say well that's for balancing sure but we didn't decide to put that character in the game it was going to be up to them to balance it and it just looks weird regardless as it is he can be fun but his movement playstyle overall and just sheer lack of really any impact above and beyond everybody else one thing we do need to talk about is the ai first thing to remember the ai i terrible second thing to remember you're gonna run into the ai a lot because even in the campaign battles at times they'll join you and of course if you're by yourself they will come in to fill out your bot group if you do multiplayer if you have two people and you want four they're like cosplayers thrown into battle many of the times you'll be ducking and dodging and weaving and slipping by an enemy and boom there's thor floating about four feet from an enemy just you know hanging out

god like the thing is the ai shows up for those campaign fights a good deal of the time and in the multiplayer if you're not in that group which is fine overall but their lack of any sign of intelligence is weird especially when tony stark  is calling you a dumb ass but he's the one floating four feet from an enemy hacking a computer and not doing crap about it this is a title that while you could fill out your ranks with ai i would tell most people to

actually just end up changing your challenge difficulty whenever you choose a mission you can do that you can turn it up or down a little bit maybe do it that way versus bringingthem with you unless you're just sort of bringing them as fodder now as you battle it out you'll get all manner of resources and currencies and items because that's what this kind of game is items fit into one to four slots on your character and they're loosely based on arms waist head or insignia as well as one for the weapon for the character like thor's hammer or camilla's armbands most will have some kind of boon to them like doing damage or a particular chance of doing damage when hit adding more to light attack combos and so forth and more can be upgraded with whatever resources they are made out of in the first place this upgrade can happen a certain amount of times before that item is leveled out just consider it's taking in too much magic or too much science and you have to trade it out all of these weapons can affect your basic stats which are might and precision and proficiency valor resolve resilience and intensity these are up close ranged crit and perk chance heroic effectiveness and crit damage max willpower and recovery armor and stun damage and resistance respectively and the game from there quickly evolves into exactly what i think we all expect going out doing battle looking for gear to fill those slots or for money to buy gear or for money to upgrade gear or for resources to create the gear you want to

buy or upgrade and put in those slots talking resources and upgrades first light games before avengers has all manner of crafting as well as vendors in many locations be prepared for that they sell you different gear depending on your level with that vendor and with that faction most take different resources as well that you find around the game world luckily most of them are near one another and most of them are near a faction quest giver who will in a surprising turn of events give you some faction quests  just basically assume and understand  there is no fiction to a lot of these they're going to say things like go out and beat some people up and they'll give you some points for it this isn't unknown but i will say this is a strange tactic for a game where they seem to focus on the lore and on the story and then once again it's really shallow also while many people have no issue with that grind gameplay loop it's interesting to see how quickly it's introduced into avengers as well as how quickly those lackluster locations hinder it or at the very least noticed they really are they are they are really lackluster what's surprising even to me is that they don't even have movable bits for a lot of these locations there's

various different things that you could do to change it up and in a lot of locations everything is so in your face for example some scratches on a wall that indicate that's where the hulk should jump to it doesn't really make you feel like you could jump anywhere you can by the way it's just that the game seems so dead set on guiding you and not really surprising you in any way it's odd when that's sort of what this should all be about and let's wrap this up with one more thing and that's the challenge cards every character has a challenge card just consider them really their levels you are rewarded as

you go up every five levels with some item like some resources some money a battle plaque a new finisher a new skin or something else they're lackluster unlocks to say the least they also take forever what's nice here is squares made it clear that all the levels all of the characters those will all be free

to get everything in their challenge cards you're supposed to be able to do that without buying anything and with just all of the points from the prior challenge cards but we're gonna see how that is however that repetitive content usually is rewarded in some way and one of the weirdest ways it's rewarded in avengers is how customization actually works when you customize your characters with the basic skins that's it no items really make any other graphical effects other than the color of the attack now there's usually two sides of this argument one marvel knows best we should not have any choice in what we want for characters to look like because the lore is so important and two that site is dumb i rest in the second side of this because if they wanted lord to fit they wouldn't have pillow-fisted hulk playing patty cake with enemies for the same amount of time as black widow you could have easily done something here and adde  to that issue many of the skins are just reskins many are not iconic but just red iron man and white iron man when you break it down also you can go and you can buy some money so that you can actually unlock your challenge card or buy some stuff in the store but it's 100 points for every one dollar some real quick math shows that most of the suits that are running right now are probably nine to fourteen dollars apiece for a reskin a title card is a dollar finishers can run a couple bucks that to me seems outrageously expensive when i feel that some of that money should have been spent on making levels immersive interactive and having that overall bombastic feeling of a superhero movie that we're playing instead of something that feels a little bit more like kids first day out with  this gi joe toys and that brings us to fun factor for a while avengers is fun ignore the crap level design the broken walking animations all the destiny style elements that aren't built from years of work like destiny or years of lore but delivered unto you as a day one titl it's actually fun to rampage around with these characters and smash the hell out of them i liked unlocking the different parts nothing wrong with that i did enjoy the combat and the battle and when you jump into something and you have four characters whether it be real people or ai and you're just going to town it can be really kinetic there's a visceral feeling to the combat especially that first time maybe the second time maybe it tops the third but the game

should just change its name to the averages unless your idea of fun is painting the same wall the same color but mo man switch in the direction from up to down i don't know how this is going to hold you for very long it doesn't have near the differentiation the diversity of any other game in a sphere right now avengers can be fun for sure but it's already becoming a slog the game's enjoyment seems to be lagging behind i'm gonna keep playing i'm gonna keep seeing i hope my ideas change i've enjoyed a bit of the multiplayer and the story is much better than we were led to believe not anybody's fault that's just the way

 they had to cut the beta so as you guys know i rate games on it but i'm not going to rate this one as i told you guys there's a pre-review so i've had some fun with the game if you enjoyed the video give it a thumbs up if you disliked the video give it a thumbs down go everywhere follow me if you can if you don't want to i don't give a [ __ ] peace out enjoy the rest of your week you can check out patreon buy some swag bye-bye