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It was The Game Awards last week, and with it you get the bevy of annual “World Premiere” announcements. Right off the bat of the awards, Nintendo and KOEI Tecmo dropped a trailer for the second expansion pack for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, called “Rise of the Phoenix”.
The expansion pack features new playable characters from the X-Men franchise such as the titular character Phoenix herself, and cult favourite Gambit. You can check the trailer out below:
Rise of the Phoenix expansion pack will launch December 23rd worldwide for all those who have bought the Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 expansion pass. Below you can check out the brief description of the DLC:
Dark Phoenix, the infinitely powerful cosmic entity from one of the X-Men’s greatest sagas, unleashes an era of fiery destruction! Four more X-Men join the alliance with this downloadable content pack: Phoenix, Gambit, Iceman, and Cable. Plus, face-off against friends in the newly added Danger Room mode! Up to four players will compete to see who can take down enemies while being barraged by buffs and debuffs.
With new modes and characters, arriving just in time for Christmas! Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order is out now exclusively for Nintendo Switch!
What are your thoughts on the Expansion Pack reveal? Are you excited to get your buddies / family together for some comic hijinks this Christmas? Let us know in those comments!
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order has been out now for a few months, as an exclusive title for Nintendo Switch developed between Team Ninja, Marvel and Nintendo. Now the first DLC expansion (of three) has gone live and is available for everyone who purchased the expansion pass!
The first Expansion Pack that focuses on the Marvel Knights adds four new characters, Punisher, Blade, Moon Knight and Morbius. Along with the new character additions there is a new game mode called Gauntlet Mode added. In Gauntlet mode, up to four players can work together to tackle a series of co-op challenges, which upon completion unlocks a survival mode version for endless runs.
Alongside this DLC pack, there is also a free content update for all players. New outfits are now available for free for Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Black Panther and more. There is also a new ‘Nightmare’ version for Story Mode that adds unique challenges not found in the other difficulties.
You can only pick up the DLC expansion pack by purchasing the expansion pass for £17.99/€19.99/$19.99, which will also include two more Packs to release at a later date.
Below you can check out the DLC Pack launch trailer:
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order is out now worldwide exclusively on Nintendo Switch.
What are your thoughts on the first DLC Expansion? Are you glad to see free updates as well? Let us know in those comments!
Nintendo have announced that the first DLC Expansion for Team Ninja’s Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order is arriving this September. It is known as “Expansion 1: Curse of the Vampie”, which will feature four new Marvel Knights characters.
The characters in question are Blade, Moon Knight, Punisher and Morbius. Along with these four new character additions, you will have access to an all new Gauntlet Mode which will offer a variety of co-op missions to play through.
The new DLC Expansion is set to arrive September 30th worldwide exclusively for Nintendo Switch. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order is out now on the Nintendo Switch!
What are your thoughts on the first expansion for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3? Let us know in those comments!
We have known for a while now that Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 was going to receive post release DLC support with it’s Expansion Pass. Though to what is a very nice surprise we are also starting to see free content updates arriving as well. As of the launch of the game (19th July worldwide), Loki is now a free addition to the already large Marvel cast list.
It has also been confirmed that more characters are in the pipeline to arrive as free DLC, with now confirmed X-men stars Cyclops and Colossus as the first to arrive on August 30th worldwide.
The first Expansion Pass pack “Marvel Knights” is planned to arrive sometime during Fall 2019. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order is out now exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.
What are your thoughts on Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 receiving free updates? Let us know in those comments!
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