Stefanos M

Marvel Rivals is a decently polished game in a sea of under developed high price low quality games. Out of the box it's a well polished presentation with minor hiccups (crashes, performance issues) here and there. Characters are beautiful to look at; the abilities, at least in theory read awesome and interesting. But other than that Marvel Rivals is the Jack of all trades. While it boast a lot of characters, its impossible to balance. While it has destructible, and interesting areas, they are too big and movement is to slow to fully enjoy in a game. As hero shooter, it one ups the competition by adding synergies, but those by themselves make balancing the game harder. And that's where things become problematic (at least for me). Abilities are lacking impact, while in theory they are great as a melee hero you swing left and right in a sea of colors, hoping that your dps will close the deal, while your enemies remain full health due to currently very strong healing abilities. Sound design is average. The heroes are chatter boxes, constantly calling things from a pool of possible interactions, but Abilities' sound effects are lacking. Foot steps are barely hearable or non existent. Besides the game boasts one of the worse, low health alert in the game history, and with a 2 hit to low health ratio, you hear it constantly. Performance issues (starting week will be fixed later most likely). The performance in game fluctuates a lot, barely moving your camera can lead to fps drops. 8gbs GDDR, is enough for medium textures, anything higher and the memory is quickly filled, which leads to high performance drops (check with task manager to ensure you aren't hitting those limits). Frame generation and/or DLSS will be in many case a must to reach a somewhat stable 100+fps. All in all, I would say Marvel Rivals is a fun game worth giving a try, albeit I still believe that OW keeps a one up on game coherence and clarity as well as the better gameplay. Non the less this is a new game with potential, if its given the time, it might find its identity.