PREVIEW -- MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE 3: The Black Order | E3 2019 Trailer

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order is an upcoming video game developed by Koei Tecmo’s Team Ninja and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the third installment in the Marvel: Ultimate Alliance series following 2006's Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and 2009's Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, and the first Marvel game to be produced and published by Nintendo. It will be in an entirely different universe than the two previous games.

The game's roster of playable characters is heavily inspired by the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), featuring several members of the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Inhumans, the Marvel Knights, and the Defenders. The X-Men and Deadpool, including the majority of characters who have yet debuted in MCU are also featured as playable characters returning from prior installments. The Fantastic Four, Marvel Knights, and more X-Men characters will be featured in post launch DLC season pass.

Playable characters
Black Panther Black Widow Captain America Captain Marvel Crystal Daredevil Deadpool	Doctor Strange Drax the Destroyer Elektra Elsa Bloodstone Falcon Gamora Ghost Rider	Groot and Rocket Raccoon Hawkeye Hulk Iron Fist Iron Man Luke Cage Magnetoa	Miles Morales Ms. Marvel Nightcrawler Psylocke Scarlet Witch Spider-Gwen Spider-Man	Star-Lord Storm Thor Venoma Wasp Wolverine
Bosses
Black Dwarf Bullseye Corvus Glaive Destroyer Doctor Octopus Dormammu	Ebony Maw Electro Green Goblin Hela Juggernaut Kingpin	Klaw MODOK Mysterio Mystique Nebula	Proxima Midnight Red Skull Ronan the Accuser Sandman Sentinels	Supergiant Surtur Thanos Ultimo Ultron
Non-Playable Characters
Ant-Man Beast Colossus	Cyclops Jessica Jones	Lockjaw Nick Fury	Nova Corps Professor X	Valkyrie Vision

^a Also appears as a boss.

Visually, I think the trailer looked stunning. The visual style of this game instantly reminded me of how much I preferred Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3/Marvel vs. Capcom 3's visual presentation over whatever the fuck Capcom decided to go with for Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. If Marvel and Capcom brought something to the table in the veins of this game's visuals then people wouldn't have been upset with how that game looked visually. 

On top of that, it seems like the full Marvel machine is behind this game in terms of the narrative and visuals from what they are bringing to the table in terms of a storyline. This should be a blast to play, much like the previous entries in this series, but I would be lying if I didn't think the Expansion DLC pass was pretty fucked up. For those who don't know, all of the Marvel Knights, X-Men, and Fantastic Four characters have to be purchased separately as part of this season pass.