Preview Theres Nothing Super About Marvel Rivals on PS5
It's so over(watch).
Marvel Rivals isn’t quite what we were hoping for. In a time when hero shooters are questioned and criticised, we can’t deny that the Marvel meets Overwatch pitch is intriguing. Taking your favourite heroes like Spider-Man and Doctor Strange and then pitting them against each other in 6v6 modes is a slam dunk on paper. Yet after our time with the closed PS5 beta, Marvel Rivals serves more as a sign of what others in the genre do right, rather than how it’s pushing things forward.
“Overwatch clone” is a term freely and lazily used to describe pretty much any hero shooter these days, but never has it been more apt than with Marvel Rivals. Similarities are to be expected of course – it’s only natural for a crowded sub-genre of shooter – but what we have here is honestly baffling. Musical queues, match commentators, hitmarkers and their accompanying sounds, and even map design are all eerily similar to what you’ll find in Blizzard’s touted shooter. Wherever you look or listen in Marvel Rivals, the Overwatch influence is there.
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