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With developer NetEase Games granting players access to **Marvel Rivals ** ' closed alpha on May 9, players have had a better look at the role-based multiplayer title, and have been able to analyze each hero's gameplay in depth based on clips that have been shared online. As is to be expected within any fandom, this footage has sparked debates regarding how they compare to past appearances of the characters in titles such as Marvel's Avengers or Marvel's Spider-Man , visit Www.marvelrivalsarena.com now >>> or even specific seasons of Fortni

The X-Men franchise could potentially have rivaled the MCU if 20th Century Fox had followed Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class plans. There's a strong sense in which the Marvel Cinematic Universe wouldn't exist without the X-Men films. Marvel Comics only survived near-bankruptcy in the '90s by selling off the film rights to some of its most notable characters, including Spider-Man and, of course, the X-Men. What's more, many key figures in Marvel Studios cut their teeth on the X-Men films, including even Marvel Studios president Kevin Fe

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One of the most anticipated characters is Spider-Man, with the web-slinger already proving to be extremely popular in gaming, most recently in Insomniac Games' Marvel's Spider-Man series. Of course, the gameplay in Insomniac's games is different from that of Marvel Rivals , as the superhero has an entire open-world city to swing around in a single-player experience, instead of Marvel Rivals ' multiplayer arena-type levels. That's not to say that the heroes don't share similar traits, as both games have kept faithful to the source material in their depictions of their powers, with Spider-Man being able to crawl on walls, fire webs, and swing around in both . Of course, that's not to say there aren't mechanics that each title could pull from the ot

Marvel Rivals has plenty of exciting features you wouldn't know much about unless you tinkered with the game for a while. For instance, have you noticed all the sprays ? What are sprays, anyway? They're nowhere in the tutorial. Still, you can complete missions by tagging buildings with them. Plus, there are dozens of sprays featured in Rivals's menus. Seriously, what gi

And yet, since 2008's Iron Man , the MCU has outclassed Fox's X-Men franchise. The key difference has essentially been that Marvel Studios played the long game, building a shared cinematic universe where each film leads on to the next, culminating in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame . In contrast, Fox has largely seemed to be reactive, tossing countless ideas up into the air to see how they fall, rarely showing any sense of overarching narrative direction. The X-Men films' famous continuity problems are really a manifestation of this core is

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It is worth noting that **FleurashDesign does state that Spider-Man's controls do take some getting used to in Marvel Rivals , ** and calls the fan-favorite hero " the hardest character to use in the game " which could be one of the factors as to why Insomniac Games has yet to include something similar in its series. A previous Spider-Man title, Web of Shadows features combat that moved fluidly from being on the walls to midair to ground-based, and it's a shame this has yet to be replicated in a title since. This could be because normally most of the criminals Spider-Man faces are on the ground, whereas that title had symbiotes to fight on the side of the buildings, but with Marvel's Spider-Man 2 having a similar kind of symbiotic threat in its third act, it's a shame this kind of wall and ceiling-based combat didn't ret

Vaughn has stressed that Fox largely kept to his original script for X-Men: Days of Future Past , albeit switching around a couple of secondary characters - notably substituting Quicksilver in the place of Juggernaut , who he had imagined being involved in breaking Magneto out of prison. And yet, for all the script would have been mostly the same, it's hard not to see Vaughn's original plan as a better one. The key is in terms of pacing, with a gradual increase in the stakes; the impending conflict between man and mutant would have been neatly signposted in the second film, and there would have been a clear narrative throughline, with Magneto involved in the Kennedy assassination and imprisoned for it in the third installment. This also would have subtly rewritten Mystique's role, in that she'd essentially have become more of a Magneto loyalist, continuing his mission of assassinating high-profile political thre