Marvel heroes go online

By Oli Welsh Published 16 May, 2007

In trading card form, sadly.

Konami has unveiled deeply unsurprising details of its Marvel Trading Card Game this afternoon.

Based on the, um, Marvel trading card game by Upper Deck Entertainment, Konami's virtual version hits PSP and PC at the end of this month - 31st May to be exact. There's a DS version due to follow in July, too.

Cross-platform online play is the game's major feature, and Konami is working to establish a community of players ahead of time. A community website has already launched, with localised European sites expected to spring up closer to release.

The game uses Upper Deck's 'Vs. System' - "a complex game engine much-loved by Trading Card fans, and offering a massive challenge to newcomers to the genre". In other words, noobs beware.

There's a single-player mode in which you pick a hero or villain and battle a series of enemies, with comic-book cutscenes. Multiplayer involves superhero teams, and will work locally through PC LANs or the DS and PSP's wireless connections.

Cross-platform online competition with handheld access has to be the real draw, though.

For fans of trading card games and Marvel, that is.

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Comments (6) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • BraveArse #1 5 years ago

    That was an evil, evil headline.

    /tries to get hopes of Marvel Universe Online news out of my head...

  • Darkflight #2 5 years ago

    IIRC, unless its changed from when I looked a while back, the DS can't use the websites features, ie buying cards etc and cant play with the PSP and PC online.
    Great trading card system though, granted the only one I ever played, due to the great cards, shame the online system isn't the DC cards too.

  • AOFanboi #3 5 years ago

    The VS system is decent. At least not a Magic: the Gathering clone like the WoW trading card game effectively is.

    However, someone are also working on a Marvel MMO. Though why you would pay to play a no-name hero there instead of in established City of Heroes is a different matter.

  • Syrok #4 5 years ago

    Sound marvellous....

  • Jdoki #5 5 years ago

    @AOFanboi

    The Marvel MMO is being developed by Cryptic (who make City of Heroes/Villains).

    I have a feeling this deal is fallout from Marvel taking Cryptic to court over the charcter similarities in CoH (otherwise, why would they want to make a game that competes directly with their aging CoH franchise)?


    The Marvel TCG game is pretty good. I've been playing the US version for a while. It's just a huge shame they couldn't have incorporated the DC VS cards, or maybe released two versions (like the old Capcom / SNK versions of CardFighters Clash).

  • Hugundo #6 5 years ago

    "much-loved by Trading Card fans"


    LOL, he dragged that selling point up from the depths.