MUFB Episode 3: Movies and Video Games

May 1, 2013 Wednesday 

Movies and Video Games

  Hello, again! This is the third Marvel Universe Fan Blog! This time I'm going to write about some upcoming Marvel movies and upcoming Marvel video games. So let's start off with LEGO Marvel Super Heroes.There's been many LEGO games throughout the years. The most recent have been LEGO City, LEGO Lord of the Rings, and LEGO Batman 2 DC Super Heroes. And now we finally get to play the Marvel heroes in LEGO form. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes will be available for the Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3Ds, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, and the Wii U. It's a single and multi-player game, depending on which platform. The game will be available this Fall. The game will be similar to all the other LEGO games. There will hopefully be a wide range of playable characters and each character will come with unique abilities. For example, as Spider-man you would be able to use his web-shooters as you would use them as grappling hooks in LEGO Batman 2. As Iron Man or Thor, you'd be able to fly. I'm hoping that this game will be similar to LEGO City where you have to travel around a city to reach your location, not like a game where you chose what level your going to play from a level selection screen. The main setting for the game will be a LEGO version of New York City. It's quite likely Stark Tower, the Baxter Building, and maybe even an Avengers Mansion might be added to the LEGO New York City. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes will offer an original storyline where Nick Fury, directer of S.H.I.E.L.D, calls upon many heroes to save earth from threats such as Loki and Galactus, Devourer of the Worlds. There is also the Cosmic Bricks, which would be similar to Super Bricks or Mithril Bricks in previous LEGO games. There will be a wide range of playable characters. All the confirmed characters I have for now is Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Spider-man, Thor, Captain America, Wolverine, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Human Torch, The Thing, Invisible Woman, and Deadpool. And you'll possibly get to play these villains as well: Abomination, Sandman, Loki, Magneto, and Dr. Doom. 

Tony Stark aka Iron Man

Sandman

Abomination 

I'm especially excited to see how well the graphics look on the Wii U, since the Wii U has HD graphics on it's games. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes will also be one of the newer LEGO games where the characters speak. In older LEGO games the characters only made grunts and hand gestures. Speaking of (Ha, get it? I'm writing about speaking then...Oh, never-mind. It's not funny when you explain it.) a video was released showing a walk-through of one of the levels from LEGO Marvel Super Heroes. Here it is:

So that was a look at the game. I, for one, is quite excited for this game. I've played previous LEGO games like LEGO City, LEGO Batman 2, LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Indiana Jones, and LEGO Lord of the Rings. Still, it's quite a long wait till' this comes out, but I'll bring a lot more news on it. Anyway, last time I wrote about the upcoming Marvel movies. I wanted to write just a little bit about The Amazing Spider-man 2. So in the first Amazing Spider-man fought the Lizard. At the end, during the credits, we see Curt Connors (The Lizard) being put in prison. Someone suddenly appears although we cannot see his face. From the looks of it he's probably a bad-guy (obviously) and he looks sort of old. I had a thought that this guy might be Norman Osborn. Norman or his son wasn't in the movie but he was mentioned. It was just a thought. It's possible characters from the old Spider-man movies might return in this sequel. For example: Mary-Jane Watson, J. Jonah Jameson, or Norman Osborn. But I do know that the villains will be Electro and Rhino. 

Whenever I see a picture of Electro I always think of Spider-man making fun of his starfish-shaped mask from The Amazing Spider-man TV show. Sorry, totally off topic. The Rhino will probably look similar to the version of Rhino from the Amazing Spider-man video game. I'm not quite sure what Electro will look like. So I think I'll end this episode here. (By the way, I'm going to start calling the blog posts "episodes") I hope you all enjoyed! I'm really excited for the LEGO Marvel game. I'm not sure when I'll post the next episode since Iron Man 3 is Friday. Perhaps I'll wait until I watch it then I could give a bunch of spoilers next time! Today I'm going to watch the first Iron Man then tomorrow I'm going to watch Iron Man 2. Then on Friday I'm going to the theatres Friday to watch Iron Man 3! So I'll post the next episode either Friday or Saturday. So I hope you liked today's episode! Before I conclude here's the first LEGO Marvel Super Heroes trailer!

And check the "Featured Marvel Videos" tab to see a clip from Iron Man 3! Thanks for reading everyone! Till' next time.

        -Leigh "WolfTamer" Dap