Developer Tribute Games has been proving its retro bonafides for years, and arguably its best work yet came in the form of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, a pitch-perfect love letter to the bygone age of co-op arcade brawlers. Now the studio is back with Marvel Cosmic Invasion, which builds on the excellent beat-em-up foundations established with TMNT, and after a brief hands-on at Summer Game Fest, it's looking like an even better, bigger tribute to the classics.
If you've ever played a classic beat-em-up, you'll understand the basics immediately. Pick a character, walk from left to right, and punch an army of evildoers into submission along the way. The key difference here is that you're playing as an array of Marvel superheroes, which opens up a lot more in the way of unique abilities and movement options, and you choose a team of characters to tag between as you like.
