Here's what you need to know about Marvel Rivals

Marvel Rivals is a team-based hero shooter that mashes together Marvel 's comics history with the mechanics of the industry’s latest hot-ticket game.

In Rivals, heroes and villains from across the multiverse have been drawn to a singular futuristic amalgam reality after its Doctor Doom and a past alternate managed to cross paths and inevitably attempt to undo each other.

Every playable character in Rivals is rooted in the comics.

Lin Lie and Sai are two of the biggest characters in the Marvel Rivals roster who aren’t their usual alter egos.

Each of the game’s maps for the convoy’ escort mode are built around a series of fun nods to the comics, some more intriguing than others.

Most of the mutant characters in Rivals all hail from the mutant sovereign state formed on Krakoa , the living island of the comics.

The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda provides the theming for several of the skins in Rivals first premium battlepass.

The concept of Wakandan finding its way to the stars was first established in 2017 , before becoming a major element of Ta-Nahesi Coates ’ run on Black Panther .

Although distant from Wakanda on Earth , it’s still active in the cosmic scheme of cosmic things even now.