The upcoming Marvel Maximum Collection is a blast from the past that will take players back to many classic arcade titles featuring various Marvel superheroes such as the X-Men, Spider Man, The Avengers and more when it launches on March 27 for PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch. Developer Limited Run Games has announced on their Twitter/X account that Marvel MaXimum Collection is slated to release digitally first on March 27 and pre-orders for the physical edition will start on the same day and continue till May 24.
The Marvel Maximum Collection is a bundle of 13 games that marks the return of all the 8-bit and 16-bit classic Marvel titles that many players have loved from their early days of gaming. The collection includes games like Captain America and the Avengers, Spider-Man/Venom: Maximum Carnage, Venom/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety and the classic X-Men arcade game from 1992 along with several handheld titles as well. Below are the full list of titles you’ll get in this classic collection:
- X-Men: The Arcade Game
- Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade’s Revenge
- Captain America and the Avengers
- Spider-Man/Venom: Maximum Carnage
- Venom/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety
- Silver Surfer
These classic titles will come with several new features like Rollback Netcode and six-player co-op, along with the ability to rewind the onscreen action and save anytime you want. Plus there will also be cheat menus, a museum section along with multiple bonus features that are yet to be announced, overall it’s safe to say that if you’ve played some of the games back in the day, you’ll surely love Marvel Maximum Collection.
There’s also some cool additions such as Archive that lets you view the original box arts in super high-res, instruction manuals and more, although these are more geared to appeal to players who have experienced the original titles when they had first came out.
However, as fun and beloved as these arcade titles are, it would have been even better if Marvel could bring back the X-Men Legends series of action RPGs along with the Marvel Ultimate Alliance titles in remastered visuals cause those are some of the most memorable and cherished games from Marvel that have been lost in time.
