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Yoshimi wrote:Black Widow looks like she's being played by Cobie Smulders.

Cheeky Devlin wrote:

Yoshimi wrote:Black Widow looks like she's being played by Cobie Smulders.

Looks more like Janeway cosplaying Widow in the holodeck.

captain red dog wrote:I don't really have a problem with the character models aside from Cap, who looks like he's had one too many bbqs and is a 50 year old single dad!

Spiderman is a great example of how they can have the look and feel of the MCU but create their own decent looking character models.

Tafdolphin wrote:Such a bizarre direction to take, using the movie costumes and art design but subbing in bland, lookalike faces. If you're going to make the franchise your own (and you can't afford actor licences) then make it your own. This strange halfway house just gives the whole thing a 'badly-drawn-cartoon-on-the-side-of-a-funfair-ride' vibe.

Keanu is the right kind of familiar. And over at Square Enix, Final Fantasy 7 had the right kind of familiarity too, even if the characters never fought like this, never moved like this before. The combat system was new, but the boss was familiar, and the music was familiar and the roster was familiar. It was a warm bubble bath of nostalgia despite the new stuff. And it made the new stuff exciting.

But look: you recognise the characters and you recognise the bosses and the music. And then: Avengers. You recognise...the uniforms? The air of Mild Peril? But who's wearing Captain America's outfit? Whose voice is that coming from Iron Man? The panic starts to rise a little. Who are these people wearing my friends' clothes and borrowing their banter? The final guitar clash was pure horror: what have you done to Paul Rudd?

sh, faces are important. It's bad enough when games don't have the right voices - when it's Jim Hanks rather than Tom Hanks, when it's Frank Stallone. But The Avengers didn't have the right faces either. They didn't have the right faces but - crucially, fatally - they had everything else. So there was this familiarity in the costumes and the relationships and then: who are these strangers?

Maybe it will work. Spider-Man worked for Insomniac, but they ditched more, carried across far less and were comfortable in the sense that they were doing their own take. Marvel's Spider-Man, but, really, Insomniac's Spider-Man. Crystal Dynamics are a great team, I think, and I felt for that team last night as they bounced their presentations off the hollow basin of an LA theatre. On paper, they had the mix right: something new, but something old and familiar. But the volumes were wrong. The recipe was wrong. The door rolled up and the smoke poured forth and I did not recognise the silhouettes.

Wedgie wrote:It would cost them a fortune to get likeness and voices, wouldn't it.

I don't mind if it's totally different look as Marvel exist before the MCU. The gameplay is more important at this stage.

Wedgie wrote:It would cost them a fortune to get likeness and voices, wouldn't it.

I don't mind if it's totally different look as Marvel exist before the MCU. The gameplay is more important at this stage.