Marvel’s surprise new game is an Overwatch clone

Earlier this week, Marvel began teasing a new upcoming game announcement, which was quickly rumoured to be a multiplayer game, rather than a single-player, story-driven title. Now, Marvel Rivals has officially announced and surprisingly, parts of it look like they were ripped straight out of Overwatch. 

Overwatch has been on the decline for a while now, with community sentiment dropping after the disappointing launch of Overwatch 2 and all the changes that came with it. Fortunately for fans of the original Overwatch formula, with 6v6 battles, it seems Marvel Rivals is taking its ‘inspiration' from the first game rather than the second.

Marvel Rivals is a 6v6 competitive ‘hero' shooter, where each player on a team selects a damage, tank or support character, with the goal of synergising various abilities to come out on top over the course of a match. The art style and UI almost intentionally look similar to Overwatch, with maps that look like they could have been previously designed for Blizzard's shooter.

It really is quite bizarre to see in action, particularly with certain characters, like Hulk, having very similar move-sets to established Overwatch characters.

The game will enter beta in May, with a full PC release coming later this year on Steam and the Epic Games Store. A console release has not yet been announced.

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KitGuru Says: This game is being developed by Net Ease, so expect the usual crop of free-to-play microtransactions to be in place. There is one thing that really sticks out as different to Overwatch though, and that is ‘team-up' abilities, which only briefly appear in the trailer. This idea should lead to lots of multi-character synergies, which could add a slightly different flavour to the flow of a match compared to the game this title is clearly inspired by. 

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