The only real restriction comes from how many characters you’ll have at your disposal, but the currency necessary to get new characters (Eternity Shards) drops frequently enough that you’ll likely be able to buy a second character without spending a dime by the time you hit the max level of 60 on your first.Īlso worth noting is that you’ll have a larger selection of starting characters to choose from when you first create an account. That said, even if you’re coming at the game anew from a free-to-play angle, you won’t run out of things to do any time soon. This has helped immensely, and is worth disclosing. What this means is that I’ve got all of the available roster and team-up characters at my disposal, along with some in-game currency to spend on costumes, fortune cards and a few other items. Gazillion was kind enough to give me a press account so I could check out the new features, characters, and so on that have been introduced to the game. As much as I still enjoy and play Diablo III, Marvel Heroes 2016 might actually take over my action-RPG hours going forward. I’m pretty amazed at how much Marvel Heroes has managed to improve compared to my last outing with the game, and I could easily see myself devoting hundreds of hours to this game going forward. Much like another popular action-RPG, Diablo III, it’s taken a couple of years to really get rolling, with a number of additions and changes. I enjoyed it enough, but it didn’t feel quite like a complete experience. I originally reviewed and played Marvel Heroes shortly after it came out of beta, which was back in 2013. Developer Gazillion intends to roll out more and more updates this year, with various characters being reviewed and retooled, a fairly massive undertaking considering the size of the overall roster now.
I’ve been spending time this month catching up with Marvel Heroes (now Marvel Heroes 2016) ever since its last major update, which brought with it controller support, visual overhauls to some characters, and reworked powers for characters like Deadpool.