Barely six months after the original games release, we now have confirmation that we will be getting a new version of Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Capcom released a video yesterday showing gameplay, complete with four new characters, Hawkeye and Ghost Rider on the Marvel side, Strider and Firebrand for Capcom.
Shortly after the announcement of the game Joystiq managed to find art assets for a total of 12 characters on Capcom's press site. The list of all twelve fighters is located below.
Capcom
- Strider
- Firebrand
- Vergil
- Frank West
- Phoenix Wright
- Nemisis
Marvel
- Hawkeye
- Ghost Rider
- Rocket Raccoon
- Dr. Strange
- Nova
- Iron Fist
Yes you read that correctly, Phoenix Wright. Capcom has released a statement to the public saying that outside of the four officially announced fighters nothing has been confirmed.
"Today we announced Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 for PS3 and X360 as well as the first four characters and a playable build for this week's San Diego Comic-Con," says the company. "As part of that, you may have seen some of our new characters for the game pop up on the Internet a bit earlier than anticipated. We are very happy with the positive response to the lineup, but at this point we're only going to focus on the four characters (Strider, Firebrand, Ghost Rider, Hawkeye) we have officially revealed. As for the other eight additional characters, we will have a ton of info, videos, screens and playable code in the coming months."
The wording of that statement makes it sound like the leaked list isn't far off.
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 will be a full retail release, though much like Super Street Fighter IV it sounds like the game will be a bit cheaper at $39.99. Capcom has stated that there is simply too much content to make these add-ons DLC, this content includes the characters, as well as a long requested spectator mode.