Marvel has simply unveiled a brand new 2D-fighting sport throughout PlayStation’s newest “State of Play” preview.
Dubbed MARVEL Tōkon: Combating Souls, the brand new title permits you to assemble your personal crew of legendary Marvel characters to face off in opposition to opponents in 4v4 tag crew battles. Playable characters unveiled within the announcement trailer embody iconic heroes and villains equivalent to Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man, Physician Doom, Ms. Marvel, Star-Lord, Storm, and Ghost Rider.
PlayStation Studios and Marvel Video games have tapped Arc System Works—the developer of the Responsible Gear collection—to develop this new Marvel preventing sport.
“From the start, we aimed to make MARVEL Tōkon: Combating Souls a title that could possibly be loved by all kinds of gamers,” explains Recreation Director and Lead Battle Designer, Kazuto Sekine. ”Typically, a crew VS preventing sport requires the participant to study a number of characters, however for MARVEL Tōkon: Combating Souls, you solely have to grasp one character with a purpose to play the sport. We’ve designed the mechanics in such a means you could carry out quite a lot of actions with both conventional preventing sport inputs or easy inputs. With the press of some buttons, a number of characters can seem on display to offer backup or assault collectively – creating a brand new and thrilling crew VS battle expertise.”
Every character incorporates a bespoke set of Regular, Particular, and Distinctive assaults impressed by their talents and powers in Marvel lore. Arc has gone to nice lengths to make sure that gameplay fashion, motion, and really feel of those legendary characters is contemporary, new, and wholly distinctive to MARVEL Tōkon: Combating Souls.
Take a look at the MARVEL Tōkon: Combating Souls announcement trailer beneath. The sport launches in 2026 on PS5 and PC by way of Steam and the Epic Video games Retailer.
