Marvel's Avengers Adding The Winter Soldier Over She-Hulk Is Its Biggest Misstep Yet
This week saw She-Hulk premiere on Disney Plus, while Marvel's Avengers unveiled a new character. Given that She-Hulk has already leaked for the game, it came as no surprise that the latest hero in the ill-fated Avengers game is... the Winter Soldier. What on earth is this game even doing? I suppose it deserves a little bit of credit for still chugging along after all this time, but only the slightest sliver. A game based on the most popular cinematic franchise in the world should have been an easy slam dunk, but rampant monetisation, generic gameplay, and a string of poor marketing decisions have led to Avengers dying quietly in the dark, even as it still clings to life.
This is how things have always been for Marvel's Avengers. It launched with just five of the six MCU Avengers, with Kamala Khan tagging in for Hawkeye. By all accounts Kamala driving the limited story mode was the game's high point, so there can be no real complaints there, but adding Hawkeye as your first big new character was never going to win any fans over. Not only that, the second character after Hawkeye was another Hawkeye, in the form of Kate Bishop. Again, playing as Kate you can understand why - she's a fun character. But this was pre-Hailee Steinfeld's MCU debut, and therefore nobody knew or cared.
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It has long been clear that the Avengers game is completely disconnected from the MCU at large. I'm sure this lack of internal synergy is a constant source of headaches for the developers, but at a certain point you have to roll with the punches. Why not keep Kate Bishop back until Kate Bishop was on our TV screens? Scarlet Witch shot up the ranks to become arguably the most popular character
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