Marvel Rivals has announced details of a bumper season one, which launches later this week and introduces members of the Fantastic Four as playable characters.Marvel Rivals is a 6v6 shooter that sees teams of comic book heroes and villains team up to destroy one another.
The game launched on December 6, and more than 10million players did battle in its first week.Marvel Rivals has continued to pull in big numbers as well, with the hero-shooter currently one of the most-played games on Steam.
Now, developers NetEase Games have confirmed what will be added to the game in the coming weeks.Season one of Marvel Rivals launches this Friday (January 10), and will see the Fantastic Four’s Reed Richards (aka Mr Fantastic) and Susan Storm (aka The Invisible Woman) become playable characters.“Mister Fantastic’s cellular elasticity allows him to stretch his body beyond all physical limits”, while the Invisible Woman can “generate impenetrable force fields and to make herself fade from sight in an instant”.
Fellow Fantastic Four members The Thing and Johnny Storm (aka the Human Torch) will also be joining the game in the near future.The update also introduces a new storyline to the game.
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