Forgoing the naff second instalment that would end up lobbing a pumpkin-bomb at everything that was enjoyable about the first, what we initially got was a dream team-assembling isometric beat 'em up that played like a fan-service love-letter to every Marvel fan worldwide. Taking the core gameplay mechanics of something like Diablo or Baldur's Gate and throwing in a huge amount of playable characters alongside special moves and even subtle touches such as Iron Man engaging his boosters to move around wherever other characters like Thor just flew, you could tell developers Raven Software knew from their days on the X-Men Apocalypse games how to please followers of any character. Core gameplay consisted of you putting together a team of any four superheroes, ranging from the likes of Wolverine and Spider-Man to Deadpool, Blade, Daredevil and even Silver Surfer. Combo'ing their talents together to take on swathes of enemies never got old, and when you threw in the fact that at any point one of your friends could drop in to share in the action, it's a crying shame that Raven would be hoovered up by Activision to work on multiple Call of Duty's rather than titles like this or a X-Men Origins: Wolverine sequel.
