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A screenshot from the game.

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The Avengers was a planned video game for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, and Wii U. The game would have coincided with 2012's massively successful Marvel film The Avengers, with the now-defunct THQ developing the title. Development of the game started in 2010 at THQ Studio Australia. The studio was granted the license by Marvel to create a video game tie-in The Avengers movies and comics.

Gameplay

Pre-Alpha builds of the game would have had players could choose to play as Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor and play in a single player campaign with a co-op mode. Players could also switch between a first-person point of view and a third person point of view. The game was going to follow much of plot of The Avengers movie and would go through levels that would have included famous scenes from The Battle of New York, Triskelion, The Helicarrier, and the inside of an alien mothership. Not all levels were going to be based on the movie as one screenshot features Captain America fighting against the Skrull, a prominent alien species in the Marvel comics that was not in the movie.

Cancellation

During the development of The Avengers, THQ was losing money. In February of 2010, THQ started a massive reorganization as finical troubles were looming. With failures like the U-draw tablet and after spending a great deal of money spent on titles like Homefront (that ended up failing), THQ was looking to cut expenses. In January of 2011, THQ mobile was sold off to a Swedish company. Financial issues also caused the team at THQ's Australian studio to be cut in half. Despite these cutbacks, this was not enough and by August 2011, THQ closed down THQ Studio Australia who was working on the game, due to the financial issues. As THQ began to liquidate assets in 2013, no buyers came forward to purchase pre-built assets for the Avengers.

Gallery

A trailer for the game.

Unseen64's video on the game.

Photo of The Avengers video game.
First-person view as Iron Man.
The Hulk's video game render.
Captain America fighting a Skrull warrior.
Concept art for a Skrull.

External Links

Information from ScreenCrush Retrieved 21 Nov '17
Video footage from Kotaku Retrieved 21 Nov '17
Blog featuring screenshots from the game Retrieved 21 Nov '17
Concept art of the cancelled game. Retrieved 21 Nov '17

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 ==Gameplay==
-Pre-Alpha builds of the game would have had players could choose to play as Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor and play in a single player campaign with a co-op mode. Players could also switch between a first-person point of view and a third person point of view. The game was going to follow much of plot of The Avengers movie and would go through levels that would have included famous scenes from The Battle of New York, The Helicarrier, and the inside of an alien mothership. Not all levels were going to be based on the movie as one screenshot features Captain America fighting against the Skrull, a prominent alien species in the Marvel comics that was not in the movie.
+Pre-Alpha builds of the game would have had players could choose to play as Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor and play in a single player campaign with a co-op mode. Players could also switch between a first-person point of view and a third person point of view. The game was going to follow much of plot of The Avengers movie and would go through levels that would have included famous scenes from The Battle of New York, Triskelion, The Helicarrier, and the inside of an alien mothership. Not all levels were going to be based on the movie as one screenshot features Captain America fighting against the Skrull, a prominent alien species in the Marvel comics that was not in the movie.
 ==Cancellation==