Game Awards 2018: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 Heading Exclusively to Nintendo Switch

Written by Brandon Hofer on December 06, 2018

News: A new Marvel game is being developed to the Switch after the last one in the series was released almost a decade ago.

The 2018 Game Awards have come and gone and it has left us with a few surprises. For Nintendo Switch owners, one of the bigger surprises is that Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 is coming in 2019, exclusively for the Switch. The new game, which arrives nearly 10 years after the previous installment in the series, is being developed by Koei Tecmo Games/Team NINJA and published by Nintendo.

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order brings together Super Heroes and Super Villains from across the Marvel Universe to battle for the limitless power of the Infinity Gauntlet, one Stone at a time. This unprecedented team of characters must use their unique superpowers to defeat the mad cosmic tyrant Thanos and his ruthless war masters, The Black Order. The game will feature an original story and a playable cast of dozens of Marvel Super Heroes, including the Avengers, the X-Men, and—for the first time in series history—the Guardians of the Galaxy.

The new game features the same kind of action-RPG gameplay that made the franchise such a hit over a decade ago. In Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, up to four players can drop in for co-op battles in a variety of ways: They can play online, link up offline via local wireless or pass a Joy-Con controller to a friend to join the team. With another pair of Joy-Con (sold separately), four players can team up on one system. In addition to the series’ traditional perspective, the new entry will let players select a dynamic, zoomed-in heroic view, allowing for a more immersive play style for single-player or multiplayer when using multiple systems.

“As longtime fans of the franchise, we could not be prouder and more excited to bring back Ultimate Alliance with its biggest game yet,” said Mike Jones, Vice President & Executive Producer, Marvel Games. “Marvel Ultimate Alliance is all about teaming up with your friends and creating your own ‘dream team’ of Super Heroes to go on adventures across the Marvel Universe, and Nintendo Switch is perfect for delivering on that promise of cooperative gameplay and shared experiences.”

“The Marvel Ultimate Alliance games have been beloved by fans for more than a decade, and this new installment on Nintendo Switch will deliver even more of the thrills and heroics that the franchise is known for,” said Doug Bowser, Nintendo of America’s Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “Thanks to our partnership with Marvel, the fate of the Marvel Universe will literally be in the hands of Nintendo Switch players, whether they’re at home or on the go.”

What do you think about Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 being exclusively on the Switch? Clearly Nintendo is the one who paid for this to happen or the game probably wouldn’t exist at all. Will you be picking it up?