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Marvel Rivals dominates Steam charts with explosive launch

2025.01.09 23:24:40 Allen Kim
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The newly released superhero shooter ‘Marvel Rivals’ has taken Steam by storm. 

The game, developed by NetEase Games, topped the charts with approximately 400,000 concurrent users on its December 6 launch day.

Even more impressively, the developer announced that the game surpassed 10 million cumulative users within just three days of release. 

Marvel Rivals introduces a fresh take on team-based PVP shooting, featuring   an all-star team of superheroes and supervillains with unique abilities on Marvel Multiverse's various destructible maps. 

In Marvel Rivals, players can choose heroes into  three distinct roles: vanguard, who protect allies and disrupt enemies; duelist, who can attack enemies with various skills, and strategist who can heal the allies and give buffs to them based on their unique play orientation. 

The players are free to team up with their teammates and choose your preferred roles and heroes to form a versatile and dynamic battle combination. 

The ability to team up also allows players to experience a higher level of team play collaboration and work with their teammates to unleash joint superpowers to sweep the battlefield and win exciting battles. 

Marvel Rivals’s one of unique characteristics is it includes famous Marvel characters and not well-known Marvel characters as playable characters. 

There are very famous characters like Iron man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Spider man and Doctor Strange. 

But there are some not well-known Marvel characters like Jeff the landshark, Iron Fist and Magik. 

Both famous and not famous Marvel characters are loved by the players with new designs and interesting skills. 

Especially, Jeff the landshark is a Marvel Comics original character that is not that famous to the audiences. 

But Jeff is one of the most played characters in Marvel Rivals because Jeff has a cute and unique appearance, easy skills and super that can change the battlefield’s outcome. 

His super is to swallow the allies and the enemies and spit them wherever the player wants in limited time. 

It can save the allies from the unfavorable battlefield and bring them to a safe place or swallow the enemies and spit them to a falling location to kill them all at once. 

Marvel Rivals’s another difference from other shooting game is the players can make various combinations of characters to make unique combination skills based on the combinations of characters. 

If there are Doctor Strange, Iron man and Hulk in the same team, Hulk can enhance his teammates’ attacks with gamma energy.give gamma energy to Doctor Strange and Iron man to boost their attacking. 

Similarly, a team comprising Punisher, Rocket Raccoon, and Winter Soldier can exploit Rocket’s skill area to eliminate reload times, ultimately boosting their combat effectiveness.in the same team, in Rocket’s skill area, Punisher and Winter Soldier can shoot their guns without reloading. 

The game also has dynamic environmental interaction, allowing players to modify maps by destroying certain elements, creating tactical advantages for their team.It can boost their firepower extremely because Punisher and Winter Soldier are characters that use medium-long distance guns with their main attacks but they have deal-loss when they are reloading. 

This level of environmental manipulation adds another layer of strategy to the already complex gameplay.

With these distinctive features and its remarkable initial success, Marvel Rivals has established itself as the current frontrunner in the competitive gaming market.

The gaming community eagerly waits for future updates, as the title continues to break records and set new standards in the team-based shooter game.Players can also break some parts of maps and make more advantageous battlefields to the team. 

With those unique characteristics, Marvel Rivals is the hottest game now and the players are expecting the next update.

Allen Kim / Grade 10
St. Johnsbury Academy Jeju