During the Square Enix presentation for Marvel's Avengers at E3 2019 , it was said there will be gameplay with one to four players, but they left it at that. IGN followed up with the Crystal Dynamics developers and learned that the entire story campaign is single player only and has no multiplayer option.

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Marvel’s Avengers at E3 2019

After seeing the private Marvel’s Avengers gameplay demo at Square Enix’s E3 2019 booth, it was very clear the campaign was intended to be a single player experience. The demo was essentially the entire trailer shown to the public but they actually played out the full the gameplay sequences where you respond to the attack on the Golden Gate Bridge. As the level progresses, you’re put in control of each Avenger for a different segment and then it ends with a boss fight against Taskmaster. It was heavily scripted, kind of like Uncharted or Tomb Raider, and had you switching from one Avenger to another for key story beats, so you can see why that wouldn’t work with two or more players.Crystal Dynamics lead combat designer Vincent Napoli and lead creative director Shaun Escayg explained that as you progress through the campaign, extra side missions will open up, and that’s where you’re presented with multiplayer options, and you can choose to be whichever Avenger you want. If you want to do all of the missions as Thor and level him up, you can do that, and then go back to the main story.Note that you could play the whole campaign and all the missions single player, if you wanted to, and you could do that all offline. But to play the missions multiplayer, you need to be online.The missions will spin out of the main story, and have a little story of their own, and the developers said the stories will weave together so it makes sense why you’d be going off on these non-campaign missions in the first place.What do you think of the main campaign being solo? Are you okay with just doing side missions with your friends? Let us know in the comments.For more on the game, check out how the developers said the Marvel's Avengers hero lineup matching the MCU is a total coincidence , whether Marvel's Avengers will have microstransactions , and how to preorder Marvel's Avengers Marvel’s Avengers has a release date of May 15, 2020 as a PC game , a PS4 game and an Xbox One game.

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