Avengers player since the beta, here. I’ve been saying for a while that the best thing that could ever happen to Avengers is to have actual direct competition, like Gotham Knights and the Suicide Squad game. Why? Well it’s the same reason why Destiny 2, after a first sequel and several raids into their GaaS became popular, but most of all because Avengers was the first multiplayer superhero game of its kind. Focusing on few characters like it’s implied on this leak goes against the power fantasy of the superhero genre, which is playing with an array of several characters, and there is one thing that Avengers nailed was how every superhero feels like they could carry they carry their own game with their combat skill sets.

Which leads me to another point: between this and Gotham Knights, I’m much more interested on the latter. I am not interested on playing a shooter from Rocksteady, let alone a shooter with villains turned anti-heroes. To add insult to injury, not having a expansive cast of characters is already a huge turn off for me. We will know more soon enough, but Avengers got the head start among these games, and while I was already suspecting that this would be the case from the Squad trailer and the whole wording used by WB Montreal to describe Gotham Knights "an evolving open world with a living, breathing ecosystem", never mind how even the game’s hud and combat looks similar to Avengers, Avengers will be with 10+ characters that play very distinctly from each other , with more to come in 2022 until at very least when Knights is released. Regardless how good or bad Squad and Knights turn out, 2022 and 2023 are shaping up as interesting years for multiplayer superhero games.