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![]() ![]() Marvel Battlegrounds is not EVO friendly, and it’s not trying to be. The stages, nine in total, also can change mid-battle, forcing you to stay on your toes. Your dodge roll, for example, is shortened to keep the combat fast and close and the camera is zoomed out at an isometric perspective to frame the action in a way that Disney Infinity has never done before.Ĭombat takes place in a free roaming arena where you can run around, attack whomever you want, hit buttons to trigger traps like a train car that smashes into enemies or laser blasts that fire from Ultron’s head and deal damage, and you can throw environmental objects like boxes and containers as well. The controls are fundamentally the same: you have a three hit combo with triangle, a super move and powers discs that can be triggered with the R and L1 buttons respectively and a throw, but the mechanics have been subtly altered to fight the context of a fighting game. As Marvel Battlegrounds is 3-D arena fighter in the vein of games like Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. and Capcom’s Power Stone, Vancouver based developer United Front games had to break down Infinity’s mechanics and rebuild them from the ground up to work, and they did so in a great way. The play sets of Disney Infinity are normally action/adventure platformers and the mechanics are designed to work in that context. The story mode of Battlegrounds is more of training yourself for battles against your friends and relearning how to play Disney Infinity. ![]() It’s not that engaging, only lasts around an hour and a half or so, and your reward for completion is a static image of whatever character you finished with and some text. A game like Marvel Battlegrounds is not one you play for the story, and if you are, prepare to be let down. Robotic duplicates of the heroes of the Marvel Universe created by Loki and Ultron are on the loose and wreaking havoc and it’s up to the actual heroes of the Marvel Universe to put a stop to this evil plan once and for all. Marvel Battlegrounds is an incredibly fun multi-player game that changes the Infinity framework in ways that you never thought possible. If you’re a Marvel fan, it’s time to come back out of the cold and dust off your collection of figures. Now that the Star Wars hype has died down somewhat, Marvel has come back to Disney Infinity in a big way with the release of the Marvel Battlegrounds play set and multiple new figures including Ant-Man, a new Spider-Man and Captain America, Vision and Black Panther. Even with those two figures, unless you’re a fan of playing user-created content or making your own, you can’t do a lot with them other than stare at them on a shelf. After three play sets and over twenty figures based on the heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe were released as part of the 2.0 edition of the toys-to-life game, the 3.0 edition until now has only saw the release of two Marvel figures: Hulkbuster Iron Man and Ultron. The first six months post launch of Disney Infinity 3.0 have been hard for Marvel fans. ![]()
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