Marvel Rivals has teamed up with Marvel Animation for its first-ever PvE mode, Marvel Zombies. The primary season of the Marvel Zombies animated miniseries simply wrapped up on Disney Plus final month, and now Rivals is getting in on the undead enjoyable simply in time for spooky season.
There might be 5 heroes to select from within the new mode: Thor, Blade, Magik, Jeff, and the Punisher. Every of them can have a particular new capability to assist them in combating what Danny Koo, government producer at Marvel Video games, calls “infinite waves of zombies.” Jeff can cost by means of hordes, Blade wields bouncing Moon Blades, Magik can now keep in Darkchild type indefinitely, and the identical is true of Thor and his Woke up state.
The gameplay proven off within the trailer seems very completely different from a typical Marvel Rivals match — with the heroes’ huge, sweeping assaults in opposition to enemy waves, it is nearly paying homage to a musou recreation like Dynasty Warriors. Alongside these waves of undead, gamers might want to deal with two bosses: zombie Namor and the Queen of the Lifeless, aka zombie Wanda Maximoff. Each characters come from the Marvel Zombies miniseries, which is a pleasant inclusion for followers, although Koo warns that each are “robust” adversaries to beat.
There are nonetheless lots of particulars which are unknown concerning the new recreation mode, like the way it will relate to in-game rewards and potential future occasions, how lengthy a spherical lasts, and the way boss fights are triggered. Nonetheless, gamers will not have to attend for much longer to search out out. Marvel Zombies will arrive in Marvel Rivals on Oct. 23 on PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Sequence X. Season 5 of the aggressive hero shooter recreation may even be in gamers’ fingers quickly; it is slated for launch on Nov. 14.