Evo 2018 games announced – and Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite isn’t one of them.

Evo 2018 games announced – and Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite isn’t one of them .

Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite – we’re never going to get our Squirrel Girl DLC now… 

The final nail has been hammered into Infinite’s coffin, as the game is ignored by the world’s biggest fighting game tournament. The 10 best HD video game remasters – from Okami HD to Beyond Good & Evil Despite popularising the genre all those years ago with Street Fighter II, and revitalising it in 2009 with Street Fighter IV, Capcom has not had much luck with its fighting games lately. Street Fighter V never recovered from its fumbled launch, even with the excellent new Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, while last year’s Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite has fared even worse. Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite is not a bad game, but it was rightly criticised for reusing too many characters and assets from 2011’s Marvel Vs. Capcom 3.

 It also had an air of desperate cheapness about it, and reportedly had a budget less than that of one season of Street Fighter V DLC. The final problem was that the game didn’t feature any X-Men, or any other character Marvel Studios don’t own the film rights to, which wasn’t really Capcom’s fault but the planned buyout of Fox by Disney (which apparently might not now go through anyway) will come far too late to save the game. Especially given what’s just happened at Evo 2018, which is due to take place this August in Las Vegas. Despite Infinite being brand new, this will be the first time a Marvel Vs. Capcom has not been at the tournament – which is a pretty vicious slap in the face. 

The game also doesn’t seem to be part of the Capcom Pro Tour this year, although that’s not been entirely confirmed yet. MORE: GAMING Games Inbox Hot Topic, part 3: Reader’s Top 20 of 2017 The line-up of eight games that will be at Evo 2018 are: Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition Tekken 7 Injustice 2 Super Smash Bros. Melee Super Smash Bros. For Wii U Dragon Ball FighterZ BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 Even with the absence of Marvel Vs. Capcom there’s still plenty of controversy, over the fact that there’s two Super Smash Bros. games and three Arc System Works titles. The latter has been on fire lately, but as fans have pointed out BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle isn’t out until May (June in the West) so it’s hard to see how anyone’s going to get much practice at it.