Marvel Avengers Review (Steam)

Marvel’s Avengers is an epic, third-person, action-adventure game that combines an original, cinematic story with single-player and co-operative gameplay*. Assemble into a team of up to four players online, master extraordinary abilities, customize a growing roster of Heroes, and defend the Earth from escalating threats.

Pros:

• Amazing graphics.
• 58270MB download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Controller support.
• Graphics-fullscreen, graphics preset, texture quality, texture filtering, shadow quality, depth of field, level of detail, ambient occlusion, volumetric lighting, screen-space reflections, VFX quality, enhanced water simulation, enhanced destruction, motion blur, bloom, lens flare, screen effects, tessellation and screen space contact shadows, monitor, exclusive fullscreen, dynamic resolution scaling, v-sync, anti-aliasing and AMD fidelity CAS.
• Four difficulties-easy, normal, hard, and brutal.
• Controller-Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, four layouts that are default, mobile, dynamic, and custom.
• Action RPG gameplay.
• Autosaves regularly and shows an icon.
• Can skip cutscenes after a short wait.
• Tactical awareness-press a button to see interaction points and where to go.
• Photo mode.
• Decent loading times.
• Loot has rarity from common to legendary and epic along with a 1-5 star rating.
• Can deconstruct unwanted gear from your inventory for parts.
• Breakable boxes contain upgrade materials.
• Earn EXP and level up to get points to put into your skill tree which is vast and covers primary and secondary attacks and you get a specialty and mastery tree.
• The way the skill tree works mean you can in essence create builds for your character.
• Open areas and you are free to explore at your leisure.
• Different enemy types from grunts to shielded and big Mech looking enemies.
• Stunning locations and vistas.
• Well optimized with my tired 970 running it on high with no issues!
• Chests will appear on the screen and you get notified when close.
• Well executed set pieces including top-tier running away sequences.
• You get a lot of free reign from the levels and which missions to take on.
• Collections-find comics with classic covers, complete collections give stat boost incentives.
• Cosmetics-outfits, emotes, takedown, and nameplates.
• Challenge card-each character has their own and comes with changing challenges that earn points that fill up what is basically a season pass. You get daily and weekly challenges.
• Loot chests-in game and are tiered like loot and come in different colors like white, blue, and gold.
• Many collectibles to find that give lore and backstory.
• Loot drops emit light to make it easier to see them.
• Satisfying headshot noises.
• Dramatic/cinematic slow no attacks.
• Music will play when fights start and end when the fight ends.
• Counter markers and icons showing enemy attack directions.
• Assignments-work like daily challenges except you take the ones you want to do and you do them for different factions/people to earn rewards unique from them.
• Gear-has a power rating and you can increase it by putting resources into it.
• Handy red and green numbers on gear to help with comparisons.
• Factions-buy gear and use their shops to rank up with them for more rewards.
• Icon mission chains can be unlocked and are character-specific missions and rewards.
• Track up to five missions at once.

Cons:

• The game has its own launcher before it runs the game.
• No benchmark test.
• Stealth sections feel and play rough.
• Fighting can feel like it stutters at times.
• The pause menu has awkward annoying button choices.
• Locations can hinder progress or hide objectives as they all blend together.
• Reuses a lot of scenarios and set pieces.
• During the story, it will force you to play as certain characters which are annoying when on the game with another character.
• Has a few unskippable interactions.
• Can’t always bring up the menu to quit.
• The menu can bug out especially on the inventory and it won’t be in sync.