Avengers: Doomsday may nonetheless be eight months away, however each side of Marvel needs to begin getting folks keen—together with Marvel Rivals, which is able to allow you to exhibit your pleasure for the new movie by letting you sit your ass down and take a break from playing to watch Avengers clips as an alternative.
NetEase has launched a primary have a look at a bunch of content material coming to Rivals this week to kickstart its “Path to Doomsday” initiative, which is able to see the recreation rely down to the arrival of the movie with content material drops themed round every MCU Avengers movie, kicking off with 2012’s The Avengers. Whereas there are extra conventional Rivals additions in the drop, like MCU-inspired skins for Loki and Iron Man based mostly on their designs from the movie and an asymmetrical PvP mode the place groups of Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, Hulk, Thor, and Hawkeye can face off towards a participant solid as the boss-sized Loki, maybe the oddest slice of all of it is available in Rivals‘ free-roam foyer map, Occasions Sq., which can be remodeled into an in-game theater/photograph op for the subsequent month.
🎉 WATCH. CAPTURE. CELEBRATE.
The Avengers have taken over Occasions Sq., and also you’re invited to the entrance row! Witness iconic moments on the large display screen to earn “The Avengers” gallery card, then head over to the Reward Store for an unique photograph op with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.… pic.twitter.com/0HokT4iusp
— Marvel Rivals (@MarvelRivals) April 29, 2026
In addition to an space the place you possibly can sit down and simply watch a spotlight reel of scenes from the first Avengers‘ climactic New York battle scene, you’ll have the ability to work together with quasi photograph cubicles that allow you to recreate moments from the movie with no matter customized skins you need for every of the MCU Avengers’ characters—though sadly, it doesn’t look like you’ll have the ability to think about your individual “what if” moments and change characters with some other members of Rivals‘ roster. No Luna Snow hulk-smashing Loki in an act of support-on-support violence, alas.
What’s coming on this week’s Avengers replace offers us a reasonably good indicator of Rivals‘ plans for the different films, however nonetheless, it does really feel a bit bizarre to be rewarded for watching Marvel film clips in-game as an alternative of merely simply enjoying Rivals itself. The “Path to Doomsday” replace will go stay in Rivals beginning tomorrow and runs by way of Might 28.
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