According to a leak from a Chinese app, NetEase's free-to-play third-person hero shooter game Marvel Rivals will add the Fantastic Four (Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch, and Thing) to its playable roster next week. The launch is reportedly happening on Friday, January 10.
Marvel Rivals launched last month to great player figures on Steam and consoles. Overall, the game has already passed the mark of 20 million players engaged across all platforms, and it ranked highly on player charts in the United States for the final week of the year. So far, the game includes the following playable heroes (and villains):
- Black Panther
- Doctor Strange
- Groot
- The Punisher
- Hela
- Iron Man
- Loki
- Rocket Raccoon
- Mantis
- Peni Parker
- Magneto
- Magik
- Spider-Man
- Venom
- Scarlet Witch
- Star-Lord
- Storm
- Luna Snow
- Hulk
- Namor
- Adam Warlock
- Jeff the Land Shark
- Thor
- Black Widow
- Captain America
- Cloak and Dagger
- Hawkeye
- Iron Fist
- Moon Knight
- Psylocke
- Squirrel Girl
- Winter Soldier
- Wolverine
With the leaked addition of the Fantastic Four, the roster would grow to 37 playable characters, and that's just in the first season of the game's live service. NetEase no doubt has a lot more characters planned to add in the coming months and years, provided that Marvel Rivals continues to do well. While the current list already includes the most popular heroes and villains, there's still a lot of characters left to introduce from the vast universe built over the past eighty years or so. Just off the top of our head, Deadpool, Captain Marvel, Daredevil, Kingpin, Green Goblin, Drax, Gamora, Nebula, Ghost Rider, Ant-Man, Luke Cage, Agatha Harkness, Miss Marvel, Red Guardian, Vision, Colossus, Cyclops, Gambit, and Sabretooth are just some of the potential upcoming entries.
Who would you like to see added to Marvel Rivals after the Fantastic Four? Let us know in the comments below.
About the author: With over two decades of experience in gaming journalism, Alessio Palumbo has led the gaming vertical at Wccftech since August 2015. He started working at a young age for Italian websites like Everyeye.it, Gamestar.it, Nextgame.it, and Multiplayer.it before kickstarting the indie English-language publication Worlds Factory as its founder and Editor in Chief. In the last decade, he has coordinated the overall output of Wccftech's gaming section, managed PR relations, assigned reviews, produced daily news coverage, edited gaming content as needed, and delivered game reviews. Arguably, his trademark content is the long series of exclusive developer interviews that have been cited by Wikipedia and by the biggest news media and gaming publications. His passion for technology also makes him knowledgeable when it comes to gaming hardware and tech. His favorite genres include RPGs, MMORPGs, and action/adventure games.
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