Marvel Super Hero Squad Online

Marvel Super Hero Squad Online
Promotional comic distributed as free handout during E3 2010.^[1]
Series	Marvel Super Hero Squad
Engine	Unity
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, OS X
Release date(s)	April 29, 2011 (US Beta)^[2] November 4, 2011 (Europe Beta) November 1, 2012 (Server Merge)
Genre(s)	Massively multiplayer online role-playing game

Marvel Super Hero Squad Online was a massively multiplayer online game for younger audiences based on the Marvel Super Hero Squad. The open beta version of the game was released on April 29, 2011^[2] (although a closed beta was released in early 2011).^[3] It was a free-to-play game that supports both microtransactions of its in-game currency and a monthly subscription.

Players collected heroes to form their own Squad. They were able to choose a hero from their Squad to play in a number of games and activities. As they played, the heroes increased not only their power in combat, but unlocked animated emotes^[4] for use in the social game world zones.

Marvel Super Hero Squad Online was the first MMO game developed in Gazillion's and Marvel's 10-year exclusive game publishing agreement. The second was Marvel Heroes.

On October 11, 2016 it was revealed that Super Hero Squad Online will be shutting down sometime January 2017. ^[5]

Gameplay

Marvel Super Hero Squad Online has alternate controls, in which with one click the player could move from one place to another, or using the arrow keys or the traditional W, A, S, D keys on a keyboard. Selected characters could fly by pressing on blue circles on the ground. If the character was unable to fly, that character could have a double jump or a high/long jump. Points were separated into two compartments, gold and fractals. Gold points could be used to buy anything, while fractals also allowed a player to buy anything. However, fractals could be earned over time in game while gold had to be purchased with real money in the store. Many characters from the Marvel Universe appeared in Marvel Super Hero Squad Online in a traditional Super Hero Squad "super-deformed" style.

Missions had a beat 'em up style where players had to defeat a massive amount of enemies to reach the final boss.

Game World Areas were separated as zones. Zones included the Daily Bugle, Baxter Building, and Asgard^[6] with all having taken a small portion of Spider-Man's, the Fantastic Four's, and Thor's home locations. Additionally, Villainville was made available for players to visit, as a zone.^[7]^[8]

A collectible card game was made available to play in early August 2011.^[9] An arcade was developed where players could play as Deadpool, She-Hulk, Black Panther, Daredevil, Captain America, Thor, Doctor Strange and Jean Grey in selected mini-games. Two characters such as Deadpool and She-Hulk were featured in each mini-game. An achievement system was released that allowed players to complete several challenges such as greeting other players, buying new heroes, beating missions or card game quests. Each challenge completed awarded the player fractals, and a new hero. The game was released in Europe on November 4, 2011. On November 1, 2012, the European server was merged with the North American server and expanded to encompass more European countries.

Characters

There were 196 playable characters as of October 11, 2016.

Playable Characters
Abomination Agent Coulson^f Agent Venom^a American Dream^g Angel Archangel Annihilus^a Anti-Venom Arachne Beast Beta Ray Bill^f Black Cat Black Panther Black Widow Avengers Black Widow^a Blade Cable Captain America Avengers Captain America^a Captain America, Stealth Suit Captain America, Super-Soldier^g Captain Marvel Carnage Colossus^g Cyclops Astonishing Cyclops^g Daredevil^g Armored Daredevil Classic Daredevil Deadpool^a Pirate Deadpool X-Force Deadpool Destroyer^e	Dr. Doom^g Future Foundation Dr. Doom^a Dr. Octopus^f Dr. Strange Dracula Drax Electro Elektra^g Pure Elektra^g Emma Frost^g Enchantress Falcon Falcon Exo-7 Firestar^g Frankenstein Gambit Gamora Ghost Rider Classic Ghost Rider Goliath Green Goblin^f Dark Iron Patriot Groot Guardian^a Hank Pym Ant-Man Giant-Man Havok Hawkeye Avengers Hawkeye^a	Hope Summers^g Hulk Avengers Hulk^a Gladiator Hulk Indestructible Hulk^a Mr. Fix-It^f Human Torch Iceman Impossible Man Invisible Woman^g Iron Fist Iron Man Arctic Armor Iron Man^g Avengers Iron Man^a Hulkbuster Iron Man^a Iron Man 2020 Iron Man Midas Iron Man MK I^a Iron Man MK II Iron Man MK XLII Iron Man Silver Centurion Stealth Armor Iron Man^g Jean Grey Dark Phoenix Phoenix White Phoenix^a Juggernaut^f Lizard Loki^a Avengers Loki	Luke Cage^g Magneto MODOK^d Monkey King Moon Knight Morbius Mr. Fantastic Ms. Marvel Mysterio^a Mystique Nick Fury Avengers Nick Fury^a Nightcrawler Swashbuckler Nightcrawler Nighthawk Nova Nova Onslaught Psylocke X-Force Psylocke Punisher^g Quicksilver^a Red Hulk Red She-Hulk Reptil Rescue Rocket Raccoon^f Rogue^g Avenging Rogue Sabretooth^f Sasquatch Sandman Scarlet Spider^g Spider-Man Ben Reilly Scarlet Witch^g	Sentry^g Shadowcat^a She-Hulk Silver Surfer Dark Surfer Spider-Girl^g Spider-Ham^g Spider-Man Armored Spider-Man^g Big Time Spider-Man Black Suit Spider-Man^a Bombastic Bag-Man^g Ends of the Earth Spider-Man^a Future Foundation Spider-Man^g Iron Spider^b Spider-Man Noir^g Spider-Man 2099 Spider-Woman^g Squirrel Girl Star-Lord^a Storm Mohawk Storm^g Super-Skrull^a Superior Spider-Man Taskmaster Thanos^f Thing Tuxedo Thing^a Thor^g Avengers Thor^a Battle Armor Thor Classic Thor^g Ultimate Thor	Tigra Titanium Man^f Ultimate Comics Spider-Man^g Ultron^f AU Ultron^c Valkyrie^g Venom^f Vision War Machine^a Iron Patriot Wasp^g Werewolf^g Winter Soldier^f Bucky Cap Wolverine Avenging Wolverine^a Classic Wolverine^g Samurai Wolverine Street Clothes Wolverine^g X-Force Wolverine Wonder Man
Mission Bosses
Abomination Annihilus Bullseye Dark Surfer Doctor Doom Doctor Octopus	Dormammu Dracula Enchantress Fin Fang Foom Green Goblin Impossible Man	Juggernaut Kingpin Lizard Loki Avengers Loki Magneto	Malekith MODOK Mole Man Mysterio Mystique Onslaught	Red Skull Sabretooth Super-Skrull Surtur Titanium Man Ultron	Venom Wendigo Winter Soldier Ymir

^a Only available to monthly subscribers.
^b Only available after purchasing a one-year subscription.
^c Only available after purchasing the $95.95 gold bundle.
^d Only available through the in-game achievement system.
^e Only available through the in-game crafting system.
^f Only available through an in-game Mystery Box purchase.
^g Rotation character. Only available periodically for a limited time.

Development

The game was developed using the Unity engine, so that it was playable on any internet browser on both Microsoft Windows and Apple OS computers. The first debut trailer for Marvel Super Hero Squad Online was released on June 9, 2010.^[10] Marvel Super Hero Squad Online originally did not feature audio for the voice of the characters. An update was released on February 10, 2012 featuring all the characters to have some sort of voice. Over 3000 lines were recorded.

The game was AMD Eyefinity validated.^[11]

References

External links

Marvel video game crossovers

Disney Infinity	Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes Disney Infinity 3.0

Marvel Super Hero Squad	Marvel Super Hero Squad The Infinity Gauntlet Online Comic Combat

Marvel vs. Capcom	Clash of Super Heroes 2: New Age of Heroes 3: Fate of Two Worlds Ultimate Origins Infinite

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance	Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2

Other games	Spider-Man and Captain America in Doctor Doom's Revenge Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge Marvel Super Heroes Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse Marvel Pinball Marvel: Avengers Alliance Marvel Heroes Lego Marvel Super Heroes Marvel Puzzle Quest Marvel: Contest of Champions Marvel: Future Fight

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