Marvel?s Avengers is a game at war with itself. From the moment you drop into the game?s main menu, you?re presented with two main options: Campaign and Avengers Initiative. Campaign is where you?ll get the cutscene-fueled and setpiece-filled Avengers main storyline, featuring Kamala Khan aka Ms. Marvel reuniting the Avengers to take on the threat the AIM poses to society. Avengers Initiative is the loot-centered multiplayer mode, focused on grinding up character levels and replaying a variety of missions in order to turn your post-campaign team of superheroes into an all-powerful squad that can take on any challenge. Yet it?s weird to me that these options are separated when they are the same game.
There are numerous examples of loot games both good and bad, ongoing and evolving online experiences designed around repeatable gameplay loops that have had their share of growing pains. The Destiny franchise has been a rollercoaster ride of potential, The Division famously made a military third-person shooter into a Diablo-like loot-based co-op game, and BioWare?s Anthem is perhaps one of the highest profile failures for a game in this category. Marvel?s Avengers evokes the three of these games and more, for better and worse. But as Kamala Khan?s father tells her, ?Good isn?t a thing you are, it?s a thing you do.?
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