One of the fighting game community’s worst-received games is getting another shot at life as an avid team of talented fans, led and primarily funded by Maximilian, are transforming the ill-fated Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite into Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite and Beyond.
We got a massive look at latest progress made on Infinite and Beyond in a recent live stream presentation, and among the many improved facets of the MvCI experience, we’d like to highlight the captivating new main menu images.
First, we have to remind you what things looked like in their original form. The main menu of Infinite would initially give you the models of Ryu and Captain Marvel as seen below, and would proceed to cycle various pairings of Marvel and Capcom characters in a similar format:
We could split hairs as to whether the undeniably horrible visuals were more or less impactful than the lack of legacy MvC characters, but these two factors were more than enough to give Marvel Infinite a one, two knockout before it had the chance to garner any momentum back in 2017.
Infinite and Beyond aims to rectify this by overhauling the game’s visuals in just about every way. In game action looks a lot more comic book-like, as do the revamped character models. This is still a work in progress, of course, but tons of artwork and updated models have already rolled out.
It was during the live presentation that Max showed off a handful of updated main menu images featuring character juxtapositions that are so much more inspired, and that effectively capture the lighthearted and high octane action that’s long characterized Marvel vs. Capcom.
You can view all seven pieces of artwork plus a version of the main menu without characters and the updated Press Start screen vial the gallery below. Be sure to let us know which you were most impressed by in the comments after.
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For more of Infinite and Beyond’s updated graphics you can check out our article on Dante, one of the most egregiously-designed roster members of the original MvCI.