MVC3 DLC costumes price, release date

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 15 February, 2011

Plus, Jill and Shuma-Gorath availability.

Alternative costumes for three-on-three fighting game Marvel vs. Capcom 3 will be available to download from the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live from 1st March, Capcom has announced.

Ryu wears his Street Fighter 1 costume, Chris Redfield wears his Resident Evil 1 outfit and Dante turns into his devil dad, Sparda. Marvel superheroes Captain America, Thor and Iron Man turn up in new threads, too.

They'll set you back $5 on PSN and 400 Microsoft Points (£3.43) on Xbox Live. Screenshots of the alternative costumes are below.

On the same day Capcom will launch the first Shadow Mode DLC pack. Shadow Mode is a free series of downloadable packs that let you fight against "custom-built computer opponents, modelled after famous players and specific themed teams".

The game's producer, Ryota Niitsuma, will be first up, in addition to Shadow Mode teams for assistant producer Akihito Kadowaki and a QA team leader. More will then follow, including "some personalities you already know".

Downloadable characters Jill Valentine and Shuma-Gorath will be made available as DLC "at a later date", Capcom said.

Simon Parkin reviewed MVC3 for Eurogamer, turning up an 8/10.

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Comments (37) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • asphaltcowboy #1 1 year ago

    Oh Capcom :(

  • J0rdan_KZ #2 1 year ago

    I'm usually not a huge fan of downloadable costumes... But I want Street Fighter 1 Ryu in my life! >_>

  • jablonski #3 1 year ago

    I could buy 5 samosas for that price.
    I will buy 5 samosas for that price.


  • DrR0b3rts #4 1 year ago

    If you squint and look hard enough at the disk, you can see them already on there. Laughing and pointing.

  • kinky_mong #5 1 year ago

    So glad I cancelled my pre-order for this. Fuck Capcom and their gouging of customers for content already on the disc.

  • menage #6 1 year ago

    So that's 5 bucks for the whole lot? Not just a couple which ends up a total of 20 bucks in the end?

  • superbeast2010 #7 1 year ago

    Post deleted at 10:57:39 01-02-2012

  • NotSoSlim #8 1 year ago

    With only 4 unlockable characters this is no shock.

    This should bit be £40 rrp

  • sega #9 1 year ago

    I hope this isn't an unpopular oppinion, but I'm hoping not many people buy them. I like additional content for games, but only to prolong its life - not updates that are announced before it hits the shelves that leave you wondering why it wasn't on the original disc.

    It feels a bit too much like buying a £40 demo and then having to pay to unlock the full game. I wouldn't have a problem if these were announced a few months throughout its life - like if Capcom said "if you're starting to get a little bored with MVC3 now, we've just made these extra costumes and characters to try out" then fantastic. But as it is, I'm worried this is going to be the start of a new trend where cool unlockables disappear from our titles and we find ourselves spending way over our original £40 to see the stuff we want to see in a game.

  • Phishfood #10 1 year ago

    Spoiler? I don't think Sparda has ever been revealed in any DMC game

  • nickthegun #11 1 year ago

    Im going to go out on a limb and say that all this DLC will weigh in at a massive 108kbs each.

  • RobotRocker #12 1 year ago

    I am buying all the DLC to spite you all. All of it.

    Especially the idiots offering £70 to independents breaking street. My pre-order got pushed up to £55 from £40 to collect it early and I had to tell em' to take a hike (And I liked that shop and I have no grudge against them. If there's a chance to gouge in this economy, fair dues to em' as long as I can go elsewhere) so I could pick it up at Tesco on Friday and use my Clubcard discount.


  • beastmaster #13 1 year ago

    Here we go again. People complain about paying for map packs for COD but they are much better value than these costume packs (which are probably already on the disc).

  • Brodie #14 1 year ago

    Oooh Iron Patriot. Shiny.

  • menage #15 1 year ago

    @Hugo M

    That's kinda what I meant, is this just for the chara's mentioned or for all of them.

    If not for all, SCREW YOU CC.

    I don't mind DLC, not even crappy ones, but these really take the cake pricewise.

    i
    Edited by menage at 15/02/11 @ 11:15

  • nickthegun #16 1 year ago

    Thinking about it, with the PS3 busted wide open, I cant see this 'on the disc' DLC business lasting much longer.

    And, yeah, the Iron Patriot is a *really* nice looking paint job. It almost makes me want to shell out..

  • nickthegun #17 1 year ago

    No one is disputing that, its just that their attitude to DLC is beginning to erode a lot of peoples good will.

    Such as debuting DLC characters before the game went gold, including them on the final disc and charging people to unlock them.

    They release fantastic products then nickle and dime everyone to death.

  • RobotRocker #18 1 year ago

    @TonyCorleone

    There's no point. People will continue to act like entitled morons and scream about how every company is out to get them with DLC and every disc needs to be absolutely stuffed with content even if it costs developers their sanity and years of development time and money and god damn we can't be happy with a game developed from the ground up with 36 well animated and great looking characters running at 60FPS.

    Though from hacking attempts on the MvC3 disc so far. There is DLC on there but its incomplete. BlazBlue had its alt colours hacked within a few days of the leaked ISO but Makoto was incomplete even though there was a sizeable chunk of Data on the disc. Shadow Mode, Jill and Shuma are the same. Partly on the disc, but inaccessible because they are not complete.

    Such as debuting DLC characters before the game went gold, including them on the final disc and charging people to unlock them.

    They release fantastic products then nickle and dime everyone to death.

    And when EA, Microsoft and Sony do it its "Adding extra value". Get a grip. DLC has to be planned months in advance now due to QA being ridiculous and ques being horrendous. Never mind the fact that a MS Screw up delayed DLC for Monday Night Combat and BlazBlue CS for months is forcing a lot of companies to start producing DLC at the end of cycles.

    PS, there's always a ton of incomplete DLC put on discs that's added when the game is content complete and going through QA to save on bandwidth costs that's separated from the rest of the content. Need For Speed Hot Pursuit and Mass Effect 2 have a ton of it and Halo Reach had map data and resources for the Noble pack on disc.

    tl;dr whiny consumers are whiny.
    Edited by RobotRocker at 15/02/11 @ 11:40

  • nickthegun #19 1 year ago

    A whole post without an SRK cliche? Step it up, plz.

  • nickthegun #20 1 year ago

    "And when EA, Microsoft and Sony do it its "Adding extra value""

    No, its still nickle and diming the consumer to death

  • scowat #21 1 year ago

    Post deleted at 16:41:01 08-02-2012

  • RobotRocker #22 1 year ago

    A whole post without an SRK cliche? Step it up, plz.

    "Ah bloo bloo. I gotta go straight for the ad hominem because I don't have a comeback"

    No, its still nickle and diming the consumer to death

    OK. Lets go back to the old days then. Thats £75 for four new characters and an extra game mode please. Thanks.

  • nickthegun #23 1 year ago

    Yes. Thats exactly the same thing, isnt it.

    There seems to be no point in continuing this salty realtalk in the armshouse because you are going for the scrub tactics of spamming the strawman.

  • chrisola #24 1 year ago

    They are extra costumes, so fans can buy them if they want. It's not like it's another mode or something that you only have half a game to play if you don't buy.

    And the Shadow mode is free - so who cares it's not unlocked from the start or whatever?

  • Darren #25 1 year ago

    Hmmm... so DLC the reason why this game's character count has dropped from 56 to 36 characters and modes like Survival, Time Attack, etc. are missing then; so Capcom can sell them as extra content?

    Capcom might have made some great games this generation but their DLC policy outright sucks IMO. Stripping content from a game to sell on at a later date is a questionable thing to do anyway (I don't care what anyone says, I'm sure many publishers intentionally do exactly that) but when DLC is announced ahead of a game's release it lessens the game's value for money. It personally puts me off buying it knowing that it could have been included on the disc.

  • RobotRocker #26 1 year ago

    There seems to be no point in continuing this salty realtalk in the armshouse because you are going for the scrub tactics of spamming the strawman.

    "AH BLOO BLOO. I GOTTA DEFEND MY E-CRED."

    Bro-Tip. Stop posting.

    No old days are everything on teh disc that you bought, maybe for an extra £10 if you count inflation.

    So £85 then for four new characters and a new game mode. They should hire you to get us out of the recession.

  • nickthegun #27 1 year ago

    And the original Ford Model T cost 15k in todays money and didnt even have a radio.

    Its not really the point.

  • Phantom_Dynamite #28 1 year ago

    And it begins........

    Tisk, tisk Capcom while the costumes are nice they should be on disk never bought the SF ones and I won't buy these as by the time you have them all you could of bought the game twice over.

    If they are going to charge it should be 400 msp for all costumes, its beond belife that for the same price as 2 costume packs you can but Beyond Good and Evil HD.

  • Sonic_D #29 1 year ago

    And so it begins...

    To be fair not buying the costumes on SFIV or SSFIV had no impact on the game, but it is a bit sad that Capcom feel this is the best way to make extra cash. Have they considered the number of ppl who will not buy the game due to their reputation was taking the piss with DLC?

  • Phantom_Dynamite #30 1 year ago

    Oh and EG you might want to update the article to say you get the classic Thor costume too.

  • neonemesis #31 1 year ago

    I'll be getting the game immediately (never imagined that a third one would ever get made) but it's a big "no" for this DLC bollocks. Anybody remember the days when you actually had to unlock stuff like this in fighting games by meeting certain requirements in modes? That was a lot more satisfying. If all this DLC was a genuine afterthought several months down the line then fine but no, it's all pre-planned. I know devs need to make money but treating the fans like walking wallets to bleed dry is just crap.

    Like I say, I'm still getting the game but as much as I'd like Thor's classic costume, I'm not paying for this.

  • dudefella #32 1 year ago

    First off I loathe DLC that's already on the disc (108k files) as much as anyone...

    that being said, you guys realize that when a game hits the shelves, it's been done and gold for at least a good month, right? The final code has to go through platform holder certification, discs have to be pressed, final QA needs to take place. It's not like the game is done and a week later it's on the shelves. There's next to nothing for developers to do once a game has gone gold except work on future updates like DLC, or moving on to an entirely new project. So you people moaning about DLC being announced before release need to actually learn a thing or two about game development before calling everyone money-grubbing evil corporations. Be glad that developers can actually add stuff that was cut for budget reasons or time constraints as DLC now, because otherwise we would never see that stuff at all, unless they did a Super-style update. It's not like DLC content announced around launch time would've been on the disc if there was no option for adding DLC, it would just never see the light of day. You guys think every single thing conceived of during development makes it into the final product? Get a grip. There are deadlines and budgets and stuff gets cut all the time, just like with movies.

  • nickthegun #33 1 year ago

    You do understand the issue at hand, right? Because thats a lot of words to miss the point by such a margin.

  • kinky_mong #34 1 year ago

    <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO2HP8msjC0">Gouge away, Capcom gouge away
    Make you pay, for on disc content</a>

  • FuzzyDuck #35 1 year ago

    If that's what they're charging for costumes, what price will Shuma Gorath and Jill clock in at?

    I'm buying this ASAP on Friday, but no fooking away am i touching this DLC with a poopy stick.

    @kinky_mong

    I'm on a Doolittle buzz for the evening now, thanks! :D

  • radioactive_bumfluff #36 1 year ago

    it sucks having to fork out for extra costumes, but I don't mind forking out for extra characters, at the end of the day if people want to fork out the extra cash for either it's up to them it just shows they enjoy the game and the extras you can pay for. Personally I won't be paying for extra costumes.

    Can't wait to pick this up on Friday though! =0)

    I booked Friday off work to play this game! Want to get a Madzcat Arcade stick but finding it hard to find any at a decent price! Anyone got any suggestions?
    Edited by radioactive_bumfluff at 15/02/11 @ 21:32

  • xerod3 #37 1 year ago

    i think that u guys are right ive been telling my friends about that crap for a while. i think its bs that we should have to pay for mre content like this, its not right. mvc2 had 52 characters and all you had to do was play to get more guys now you have to pay and pay.