Marvel Vs Capcom: Infinite

The fighting-game crossover returns for capcom’s riskiest game in years

- Nathan brown

Capcom’s fighting games have a history of not quite getting it right the first time round. The Street Fighter III series only took hold the third time, with the aptly titled Third Strike, and Street Fighter X Tekken only came into its own after a hefty balancing update.

Marvel Vs Capcom 3 was as good as broken right out of the gate, and it took the Ultimate revision—a full retail release just nine months after the base game launched—for it to survive.

It’s no longer a luxury Capcom can count on. Street Fighter V hasn’t had the best time of it on PlayStation 4 (*snigger*), but since Capcom has embraced the changing world of the game as a service—where titles are updated over time for free, rather than parceled up into a series of full-price revisions—it has learned that, if you mess up at the first time of asking, you might not get a second chance.