The game's Spider-Man: Civil War is getting an unexpected Marvel title
In a new event in the first half of 2023, players will explore the fragmented Spider-Verse, where various spider variants will fight each other.
Kabam unveiled plans for the eighth Marvel Contest of the Champions, which will include a Civil War event inspired by the Spider-Verse. Since its release in 2014, the Marvel Contest of Champions has drawn inspiration from a variety of Marvel media, whether it be comics, movies or TV shows, with many of its events drawn from Doctor Strange and Black Panther from the Multiverse of Madness. : Wakanda Forever. 2022. Kabam's narrative roadmap for 2023 seems to continue this trend, while also offering some new, entirely original arcs for the mobile fighting game that are sure to please Marvel fans.
The core story of the Marvel Contest of Champions was inspired by the events of the 1982 limited comic book crossover series, in which the Grandmaster challenged Death to save The Collector's life, some of whose members formed two teams in the Marvel Universe The most powerful heroes act as pawns to assist them. In the game's eight-year run, the Marvel Contest of Champions has expanded from this premise to include other universe-altering events, with players taking on the role of a summoner who can now assemble a team from more than 236 Marvel heroes and villains.
Contest Of Champions' 2023 Roadmap Covers The MCU And Continues Its Previous Events
Preview by Max Arnold, Kabam's Senior Quest Designer What's new for the game is in the new Year 8 Narrative Roadmap video on the Marvel Contest of Champions' YouTube page. The roadmap covers January 2023 to June 2023, and events appear to line up with upcoming films from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantum Fever and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, among others.
The first half of 2023 will also offer new content following the Young Avengers and X-Men, and will also continue the events of Spider-Man prior to Marvel's Contest of Champions. During the events of the Spider-Verse in 2022, the Web of Fate was destroyed, which led to a civil war among the various Spider-Men in the first half of 2023. Arnold went on to reveal that an "unlikely duo" will seek to understand "the battle between spider friends and spider enemies" and restore order to the shattered Spider-Verse.
Marvel Contest of Champions' Spider-Verse Event Has Parallels To Across The Spider-Verse
The MCU-inspired event of Marvel Contest of Contest coincides with its cinematic counterpart, while the Spider-Man event will take place in April, months before the award-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse sequel, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Cosmos is coming. The Spider-Verse campaign tells its own original story, continuing what Kabam had set up in previous years, but The parallels can be compared to the story of Into the Spider-Verse. The trailer for Spider-Man Crossover: Into the Spider-Verse shows Miles Morales' Spider-Man being pursued by Spider-Man, a team of Spider-mutants pulled from the multiverse and led by Spider-Man 2099.
Kabam hints that the Marvel Contest of Champions' Spider-Verse event will follow the example of the animated sequel, as it will also see several Spider-Men face off, much like Marvel's Civil War arc. The "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" trailer also shows Gwen Stacy's ghostly spider standing up to Spider-Man 2099 after Spider-Man goes after Miles. If Marvel's Contest of the Champions does take inspiration from this film, the "unlikely duo" trying to bring order to the Spider-Man universe could be Gwen and Miles, though the game may give fans They bring some surprises.
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