Capcom and Marvel have today officially confirmed that the highly requested fighting game, Marvel VS Capcom 2, will be coming to the PLAYSTATION3 and Xbox 360 this summer via digital distribution. The classic fighter pits some of Capcom's familiar faces against a host of Marvel Comic's biggest names in explosive three-on-three team battles. Marvel VS Capcom 2 has been PEGI rated 12+, USK 12 and OFLC 15+ and will be available for purchase on XboxLIVE! Arcade for Xbox 360 for 1200 Microsoft Points and the PlayStation Network for €14.99/ £11.99 when the game goes live this summer.
Everyone is trying the shared universe thing these days, but Marvel and Capcom were mashing up their most beloved characters decades ago. Perhaps their best crossover effort was Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, which was released on the PlayStation 2 & Xbox on Nov. 19, 2002, in North America. Previous releases took place in arcades and on Sega’s beloved but ill-fated Dreamcast console. Later releases came out on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360’s digital storefronts.
Former employees of Backbone Entertainment have formed a new company called Digital Eclipse. On Twitter studio head Mike Mika confirmed they would love to help the fans. In addition to having ported MvC 2 before, the studio has worked with Disney on re-releases of the Disney Afternoon Collection, Aladdin and The Lion King. Legions of fans are waiting for Marvel vs. Capcom 2 to take them for one more ride.
Arcade1Up reveals how the company was able to bring back the retro fighting game, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, with brand-new arcade cabinets.
The PlayStation Brahs:
"YouTube Maximilian Dood’s ‘#FREEMVC2’ campaign went big time viral as it spread like wildfire on social media. The goal? To get the attention of Disney and Capcom to bring back the greatness of Marvel vs Capcom 2 to modern consoles. Good news, as Capcom and Disney have had some discussions regarding the matter."
Please work it out. I have fond memories of this fighter game. Not to mention the sequels just aren't as balanced as this game was.
I laughed hard at balance lol. It is completely f***ing broken. Balance isn’t what people are looking for. Mk11 was the most balanced MK ever and the overall consensus was “restrictive and boring”.
For the noobs and average players it can be seen as balanced but at the highest competitive level it is absolutely broken. There was a ratio mod released recently that is actually pretty interesting and allows way more of the cast to see some play.
No one cares about balance in MvC2. Games all about being unbalanced lol. If it was, it likely wouldn't be good
MvC2 is so unbalanced pros make special brackets to limit the amount of clone teams this game has at high levels. Even now Justin Wong and others have only been playing with the character cost format to make it interesting.
Did you ever play as Cable or play someone else who was using Cable? This is an incredibly unbalanced game and honestly some of the most fun is making a redonkulous team and just clapping cheeks.
I really enjoyed the game on Dreamcast.
A lot less when it was later re-released on newer systems, because I believe all characters were already unlocked instead of you playing to unlock them. The SP experience on those re-releases was just ‘less’ than the Dreamcast version, which was a bit disappointing.
Would love a proper HD remake/remaster, if given the care & love it deserves (instead of a quick cash-grab with a mediocre port).
Would also love to see Capcom release a FullHD port/renaster/remake of Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max (psp).
Seeing the Alpha games storyline is being promoted in SFV, with all the mainline titles, it really should get one
Not sure what you mean though. Marvel 3 was pretty damn good and Marvel Infinite was too. Infinite just suffered from poor graphics but the gameplay and netcode was actually pretty solid.
I want them to rerelease the entire Marvel vs Capcom series on modern platforms, from X:Men Children of the Atom to Marvel vs Capcom 2
I’d also love for the next Marvel vs Capcom title to live up to its series legacy rather than being a disappointment like Infinite
I said the same thing without seeing your comment. X-Men vs Street Fighter and MSH were stunning games. They look great to this day.
I did not mind MvC3 and ultimate but the last entry was dire.
And I want them to go back to 2D - know THAT'S not happening!
Nice compromise would be something stylized towards what Guilty Gear does than their own attempts at 3D.
£11.99 for what appears to be a re-release with some filters seems a bit steep to me. If they had re-done it with proper HD then that price might seem a bit more reasonable, but as it stands I expected it to be a bit less.
I might have missed understood exactly what they've done, however, and would gladly change my mind if someone corrects me :)
$15 for this?
Thats crazy.
MAME FTW!
Remade it like tekkan 5 was remade w/ better visuals etc even though I love MvC2 a lot and is in my top 3 fighter games of all time I wont be dling this game if it has no improvements to it. Cmon capcom stop being lazy I rather pay 30 dollars for better looking game than 15 for a game from 2 gens ago.
MVC2 came out during the time when I was more interested in partying than playing video games. Maybe this time around, I'll actually have enough time invested to be an elit player.
its better than paying for the ps2 or dreamcast version. Cannot wait for this.