Marvel’s Avengers

Developer Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal

Publisher Square Enix

Format PC (tested), PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, Xbox Series

Release Out now (PC, PS4, Stadia, Xbox One), November 10 (Xbox Series), November 12 (PS5)

The comic book industry has long divvied up its own history over a Golden Age, a Silver Age, and then, perhaps realising where this pattern would end up, a ‘Modern Age’ that began in the 1980s and remains ongoing. Such designations now seem almost quaint next to the cinematic age of the superhero which, over the last decade in particular, has dominated the box office and recently culminated in the highestgrossing film of all time. The mass market has never loved spandex more and, with Hollywood conquered, games are the next medium in line.

is far from the first Marvel videogame, and is not even the vanguard for this new age of mega-budget would-be blockbusters (that would be 2018’s excellent ). It owes a debt to the knockabout series, as well as Rocksteady’s games. But