Marvel Rivals has revealed the first trailer of the team-based superhero shooter

A new Marvel game is coming. Not happy with the upcoming Xbox exclusive Blade project and 1943: Rise of Hydra, whose first spectacular trailer faces off Captain America and Black Panther, the company just announced Marvel Rivals, a promising fusion of genres(shooter and MOBA) which seems to be their response to the success of Overwatch, Fortnite, and Smite.

The game will be a third-person shooter in which two teams of 6 players will take on the role of superheroes from the Marvel multiverse who couldn’t be more different from each other. It is being developed by NetEase (the Chinese company behind Diablo Immortal and Hell: Bladepoint), with reportedly a triple-A budget, and it’s arriving on PC at the end of the year through Steam and the Epic Games Store. The game is set to be free to play title and even has its first beta scheduled for May.

This is how the first description of the game offered by Geof Keighley reads: “Marvel Rivals features a storyline crafted by the NetEase writing team where the merciless clash between the tyrannical dictator Doctor Doom and his future counterpart from the year 2099 has forced countless universes to collide in the Timestream Entanglement, creating new worlds and crises still unknown. Now, Super Heroes and Super Villains from across the multiverse must fight together and against one another as disparate groups seek to defeat both Dooms before one achieves domination of these realities. Familiar faces become newfound foes while former enemies become the greatest of allies in Marvel Rivals.”

All Marvel Rivals characters

A first roster of the game has already been leaked, showing the first 18 playable characters of Marvel Rivals: