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The knock-off problem So we’ve had quite a lot of Marvel news in the last couple of days, most of it from Comic-Con but also the leak about Black Panther. What was Square Enix’s Avengers is still limping on but with at least three big name Marvel games now on the way, is now a good time to ask whether we need a new Avengers game?

Nobody likes the current one because of its boring multiplayer but the single-player was mostly good, even if it was awkwardly split between being a team game and a Ms. Marvel game. A sequel that was just based on the team could still work, if it was single-player and had a good story.

The problem is that the old team doesn’t exist in the movies anymore and nobody wants to see the knock-off brand versions they used in the current game, which creates a problem. To me the obvious thing to do is create one based on the new film they announced, Avengers: Secret Wars. That will presumably be a Young Avengers film with all the new characters they’ve been introducing, but which people haven’t quite got used to yet.

That still runs into the knock-off problem, but maybe Thunderbolts could work instead? Thunderbolts is basically the Marvel version of Suicide Squad, with a similar rotating squad, so they could have a few from the film and a few just for the game. In fact, you could try that with the Avengers game too, it’s not as if there aren’t enough characters to go around.

Or maybe get ahead of the curve and make an X-Men game? That way the films would end up being compared to the games and not the other way