‘Marvel Rivals’ is a new superhero team-based shooter from NetEase

nme.com:

NetEase and Marvel Games have announced Marvel Rivals, a team-based shooter featuring a “deep roster” of heroes and villains.Due for release on PC, the Overwatch-inspired Marvel Rivals is a free-to-play cooperative PVP shooter that lets players assemble an all-star squad from across Marvel’s catalogue of characters and take to a number of destructible maps from across the multiverse.Each character will have their own unique skill set, and can work together with other heroes to activate a number of “team-up” powers for the 6v6 battles.Marvel Rivals will also feature a storyline created by the NetEase writing team that sees Doctor Doom clash with a future version of himself, causing a number of universes to collide in the timestream entanglement. “Now, heroes and villains from across the multiverse must fight together and against one another as disparate groups seek to defeat both Dooms before one achieves domination of these realities.”While a release date has yet to be confirmed for Marvel Rivals, a closed alpha test will take place in May.

Players can sign up for details here. The alpha will feature more than a dozen different characters including Black Panther, Spider-Man, Magneto, and Magik while the full launch will include a roster that pulls from Guardians Of The Galaxy, X-Men and The Avengers.NetEase and Marvel Games are promising a “continuously evolving universe” with Marvel Rivals as well.