Marvel Vs Capcom 3 OTW?

If you are a gamer and love 2D fighting games than this news will blow your head off. When I first heard of it, I nearly wet a pants because it was too good to be true. Prior to the success of the PlayStation 2, the PlayStation was gold. The PlayStation was known for its fighting games, mainly the versus series by Capcom. On the PlayStation, Capcom has release "X-Men Vs. Street Fighters", "Marvel Super Heroes", " Marvel Vs. Street Fighters" , and the most famous of all, " Marvel Vs Capcom." The few copies of "Marvel Vs. Capcom" that made it to the US literally becomes rare overnight. ( It goes for over a hundred on Ebay; I was lucky enough to get my hands on one)

Its successor, "Marvel Vs. Capcom 2" did not go unnotice either. With a massive collection of 50+ characters from both, the Marvel universe and Capcom universe, "Marvel Vs. Capcom2" also becomes a legend on the Dreamcast and multiple Arcades. "Marvel Vs. Capcom 2" was later transfer to the PS2 and Xbox. But, something terrible happened. Again, this game too becomes rare because of the limited copies printed. This time however, it was EA and Activision's fault. The two major gaming companies bought up all the licenses from Marvel Studios. Because of licensing issues, Capcom was force to stop the printing of the game and all gamers hopes of a next gen sequel or more copies of the popular game was destroy. Until now.


With the new upcoming release of DC Vs. MC along with all the positive remarks by both gamers and reviewers, Marvel is keeping its head on the ball and is looking for a way to work with Capcom again. They too are aware that the Ps2 release of MVC2 and MVC are major money making games right now on eBay or anywhere including EB Games and Gamespot. ( The games are going for 70+ dollars. Dam! That's more than the official release price for a PSX or a PS2 game. Could you imagine paying eighty bucks for a Playstation game?)

One of the President of Marvel was ask at Comic Con if a sequel to the smash hit MVC2 was ever going to be made. Many gamers worldwide thought that the President was going to say no, but, ironically he said yes. That simple word, "yes", was all it took to make hardcore gamers jump at there TV. ( I know I did :) )The President was also noted saying, " It might come out sooner than you think." Oh, god lets hope he wasn't lying or drunk when he said those words. Capcom was also ask if MVC3 will be possible someday, and they said that they will love to make a Sequel.

So, if both sides agree than what is stopping them from making the game? Is it licensing issues again. No, ESRB was reported seeing an upcoming re-release of the game MVC2 for the Xbox360 and Ps3. From that fact alone, one could conclude that Capcom has won the lincenses back and that is why they are re-releasing the game as an import to the PS3 and Xbox 360.

I would think that MVC3 will release no sooner than the end of 2009. Why? Simply because Capcom has alot of hit games coming out. It will make absolutely no sense for Capcom to compete with itself by releasing MVC3 any time sooner. (Street Fighter Four is coming out, along with TvC and other nex gen fighting games)

If this game, " Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 ", is in the works right now, I would hope they add in more marvel characters. It was nice having Spiderman, Venom, Cable, Cyclops, and Wolverine as playable characters. But, maybe they can add in Carnage from Spiderman and Professor X from X-Men. From the Capcom side, they should add in Zero from Megaman and some of the new characters premiering in SF4 as playable characters.

I really do hope that Capcom and Marvel studios is not lying to us. I cannot stand another release of a crappy Marvel game. Marvel should get there act together and let a true fighting game specialist, Capcom, take there characters and turn them all into something gamers would appreciate. I use to be a really big fan of Spiderman as a game character, but, after the release cycles of horrible Spiderman games I am beginning to detest Spiderman. If MvC3 comes out, I am sure I will love Spiderman again. And we all know Spiderman is the best Marvel superhero. ( At least I think so)