Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (Game)

Avengers:Earth's Mightiest Heroes is a video game that was released on May 22, 2022. It's story is loosely based on the Acts of Vengeance story arc, following the Avengers form to stop Loki and his group of villains. The game has a number of side-quests alongside the main story for each of the major characters.

Hulk
Loki plots to find a way to escape his prison on the Isle of Silience on Asgard and defeat his brother Thor. He finds the hulk to be his way of doing so. As the hulk is leaping through the desert in New Mexico, Loki makes him see a stick of dynamite on the tracks in front of an approaching train. The hulk tries to snuff it out but miscalculates and crashes into the piece of train track. The hulk stops the train from crashing by propping himself on a boulder and lifting the damaged track up. Regardless of his heroic efforts, news outlets report that he was trying to destroy the train. Rick Jones believes the hulk is innocent and transmits a message to Iron Man to help him locate and protect the hulk. Loki attempts to divert the message to Donald Blake, Thor's human form. Iron Man still recieves the message as well as Blake. Blake transforms into Thor and flies off to Rick Jones' countryside house in New Mexico. Iron Man does the same. Ant-Man and the Wasp also recieve the message and fly off.

Meanwhile, General Thunderbolt Ross deploys a number of tanks and helicopters to take down the hulk. The hulk thwarts the military until a new weapon utilizing radiactive energy is used on him to get him to turn back into Bruce Banner. The hulk is forced to avoid this weapon while continuing to battle the other military forces. He eventually neutralizes the radioactive weapon and flees the scene.

Thor
The heroes all convene with Jones. During the meeting, Jones sees what appears to be the hulk outside. He goes on his own to confront him. He fights briefly before the hulk de-matieralizes out of sight. Thor realizes that his brother Loki must be up to something. He then leaves to Asgard to confront him. Upon arriving, he meets with his father Odin, who grants him permission to visit the Isle of Silience. Thor sets off in a boat. He realizes that Loki has set a multitude of traps for him. The first of which is long sprawling roots, which attempt to take hold of his boat and trap him. Thor swings past them with only a few seconds to spare.

The next trap set for him are volcanic bubbles being shot up towards him, which are capable of sapping the strength of any god. Thor bobs and weaves past them before his boat is eventually run aground on the Isle of Silience. He then begins to battle his brother Loki. Loki uses almost all of his tricks before calling upon the trolls to take Thor underground. He reveals to Thor he had promised them one of the great Asgardian gods. The trolls oblige and subdue him. Thor finds himself in a dark cavern where the trolls live. He is chained up and brought before Ulik, king of the Rock Trolls, who has led their war against Asgard since he was a boy.

Eager to prove himself a victor against Thor, Ulik attacks Thor in sheer darkness with his own hammer made of Uru. Ulik, able to see in the dark, has a clear edge, however. Thor has to summon lightning constantly in order to get sight of Ulik. Eventually the cavern walls collapse, and the two fight in broad daylight. Thor destroys Ulik's hammer and knocks him out, with the rock trolls cowering in fear. Thor says to them that Asgard has no quarrels with their people but men like Ulik will continue to make conflict inescapable.

Thor leaves to finally confront Loki. He sees Loki attempting to get away on his only means of escape, the boat Thor had arrived with. Thor strikes Loki back. In response, Loki uses his last trick of replicating himself ten fold. Thor is forced to try to find the true Loki. Eventually he does and tries to take him to show the heroes the true culprit. Loki refuses to comply and jumps off into the sea below. Thor believes him to be dead but realizes that Loki has taken the boat, the only possible mode of transportation to and from the Isle of Silience. Trapped, Thor calls on Heimdall to transport him off of the isle and back to Earth. Heimdall does so. Shortly after, Loki arrives and incapacitates Heimdall, travelling back to Earth as well.

Ant-Man and the Wasp
Ant-Man recieves news from one of his army ants that hulk is doing a circus act. He and the Wasp travel on their own to see if it is truly the hulk. Iron Man insists on travelling with them. Ant-Man and the Wasp arrive first. They succeed in trapping him but attract the circus runners, who attack them. They shrink down and flee, leaving Iron Man to bring the Hulk in.

Iron Man
The hulk manages to escape and the two engage in a chase across the desert. Iron man has to dodge multiple items which the Hulk lobs at him along the way. The hulk nearly destroys a plane when he springboards off of its left wing to evade Iron Man, destroying it in the process. Iron Man is able to lift the plane safely to the ground. His fight with the hulk comes to a head at a tire processing plant. As he is outmatched in terms of strength, Iron man uses his ingenuity to trap the hulk with a metal piece. The hulk breaks free eventually and grabs Iron Man by the throat. Thor arrives just then with news that his brother staged hulk's crash into the train track in hopes of defeating his brother and escaping his prison. Now he is on Earth plotting his next steps. The hulk finally transforms back into Bruce Banner and he is taken to New York City

Ant-Man and the Wasp regrow to their normal size and meet once again with the other heroes. They decide to call themselves the Avengers and stick together to see to it that Loki is defeated. Meanwhile, Loki, disguised as a stranger, coerces a number of villains to join him in defeating the new group of heroes who have formed and strike back at his brother Thor. Among this forming group are the major villains Kingpin, Red Skull, Mandarin, Wizard, Namor, and Abomination. Loki plans to break out a plethora of lesser villains to be broken out of the Raft to be directed at the heroes first.

Captain America
Captain America and American soldiers assault a Hydra missile base led by Red Skull. As he pushes past German soldiers, Captain America realizes that a nuclear missile launch is imminent. Suddenly, Red Skull gets the jump on him and the two begin to fight. As the missile begins to take off, Rogers jumps onto it with a grenade in hand. He lodges it into a compartment into the missile. As the missile is blown up, Rogers is launched into the sea, kept frozen for half of a decade.

He finds himself being thawed by the Avengers. Nick Fury director of Shield arrives, having been informed by them of Captain America resurfacing alive. Rogers talks with Fury briefly and surmises that the Nazis must have won the Second World War. He attacks the heroes and attempts to flee. Hank Pym decides to show off his newly perfected pym particle formula by growing to 30 feet tall and subduing Rogers. Nick Fury comforts Rogers afterward by saying the allies won the war.

Rogers is introduced to the new base of operations for the Avengers, a mansion leased to them by Tony Stark, which is cared for by a butler named Jarvis. The Avengers then recieve news of an outbreak at the raft from Nick Fury. Bruce Banner had chosen to leave New York City beforehand, leaving him out of the fight. Captain America and the Avengers arrive at the prison and are attacked by a vast array of foes who are escaping their cells. The Avengers go against the villains who were sent by Loki to begin the prison break, Mandarin and Wizard. Captain America is pitted up against the villains escaping, the first of which is Whirlwind, who is able to rotate at supersonic speeds. He can only travel in a straight line or go into the air for a few seconds. When rotating, he can send strong air currents. To defeat him, Captain America has to dodge his attacks and toss his shield whenever he has to cooldown.

Another escaping villain emerges from his cell, that being Grim Reaper. He has a magical scythe, which can send out energy blasts. His abilities include summoning demons and creating illusions. After defeating them, he tries to join back up with the other Avengers. Eventually the prison begins to collapse for some reason, causing Captain America to flee into the sewers.

Iron Man
Cutting back in time, Iron Man and the other Avengers are arriving at the prison. They see Mandarin and Wizard responsible for the prison break. Iron Man is able to choose a course of action for the team to collectively take against the villains. Regardless of how the team defeats them, during the fight the Wizard causes the floor to collapse in on itself. Iron Man tries to find the rest of the team but eventually finds his suit critically damaged. The Mandarin destroys his arc reactor and leaves him to die. S.H.I.E.L.D agents arrive on the quickly escalating scene, recovering Iron Man from the rubble. Meanwhile, prisoners from the raft envelop the city in chaos. As the agents carry Iron Man away, they attempt to take him helmet off. He stops them and jumps out of their helicopter. He takes refuge at the Avengers Mansion to repair his arc reactor and suit.

Ant-Man
Ant-Man, in his shrunken form realizes that he has been unconcious. He sees that the Wasp is wounded. He takes her and flees the Raft. A state of emergency is declared in New York City as this happens. Loki is content with his plan, and orders the other villains to now set in motion the defeat of the Avengers.

Ant-Man shrinks down and traverses the pipes sprawling across New York City apartments, aiming to arrive at the Avengers mansion. A gang of stray cats cross paths with him in a delapidated apartment. Ant-Man has to fend against them and is eventually seperated from the Wasp. The Wasp flees and eventually arrives at a meeting taking place between the Kingpin and his gang. He announces his intention to make the city his at last by enlisting the escaped villains. The Wasp is discovered by the gang and is attacked. Meanwhile, Ant-Man escapes the stray cats and sees that the Wasp is in trouble. He arrives and battles the gang members. The Kingpin leaves his gang to taking care of the two heroes.

Ant Man and the Wasp continue to pursue the Kingpin after defeating the gang. Their chase continues out on the street. The Kingpin sends the Taskmaster to keep them at bay. The Taskmaster fights the heroes while on the roof of the Kingpin's car, with Ant-Man and the Wasp dodging his attacks midair. Due to Taskmaster's ability to mimick any attacks made by his opponents, the only way to defeat him is to fluke attacks, which will allow for the Taskmaster to get hit. After the Taskmaster is defeated, the Kingpin rips open the roof of his car and jumps out. The car crashes, leaving Ant-Man and the Wasp injured before they can react. The Kingpin leaves the scene to continue his criminal operations.

Captain America emerges from the sewers and helps Ant-Man and the Wasp up. They then make it to the Avengers mansion. When they do arrive, they see the true identity behind Iron Man, Tony Stark, who was working on his damaged suit. The fractured team wonders what to do next with the city in array and a number of villains loose. Iron Man says that they need to find Bruce Banner and Thor if they hope to restore order.

Thor
Thor emerges from the rubble and searches desperately for his other team members. However, he finds the prison completely deserted. He flies out and sees the city billowing with smoke and chaos running rampant. He arrives at the Avengers Mansion and sees that the team has also arrived there. They explain that the city is under a state of emergency and that they are on their own. Thor decides to consult his father in Asgard. Upon arriving there, Odin explains that Loki's escape was predicted to set in motion Ragnorok, destruction of Asgard. Suddenly, a messanger from the Drwarves says that two enemies of Asgard, who were banished by Odin to Earth and imprisoned on the raft, Skurge and Enchantress, are aiming to awaken Surtur and create their own Mjiolnir hammers on the dwarve realm Nidavellir. Thor flies off to stop them.

Upon being transported, he is ambushed by Malekith and his band of dark elves who seek to reclaim their realm, Svartalfheim, after being defeated by Odin and Asgard hundreds of years ago for their ambitions to spread darkness across the other 8 realms. Thor is taken onto their ship and contrained. He breaks free and makes his way through its vast winding halls, taking out Dark Elves in the process. Eventually he finally confronts Malekith once more. Malekith has the ability to change his apppearance, which includes turning into a gaseous form and into 2 times his size. He can also generate a large concusive blast. Only the metal in Thor's uru hammer can hurt Malekith. Thor emerges vitorious in the end and crashes their ship with a bolt of lightning. A wounded Malekith orders his surviving troops to surround Thor. Thor defeats the force and calls upon Heimdall to send Malekith and his troops to Hel. Heimdall obliges.

Thor arrives finally at the place in which Mjiolnir was first created by the dwarves. He finds them all massacred and both Enchantress and Skurge standing above their bodies, with Enchantress seemingly closing the spell which keeps Surtur contained. Thor asks why they want Surtur, which Enchantress replies by saying that only something of Surtur's magnitude could create another hammer like Thor's. Thor swings his hammer, but is suprised when Skurge blocks it with a copy of Mjilionir. Enchantress reveals that she also had copied her own hammer. Thor is perplexed but reasons he can take them on, as his hammer is the only enchanted one. He begins to battle the two villains. After Thor defeats them, Enchantress calls upon the Demon Riders to attack Thor. The Demon Riders, freed denizens of Hel, have also been given copies of Thor's hammer. Thor fights them off to the best of his ability but eventually his hammer is destroyed, and he is left bloodied and weakened.

Loki arrives in Asgard once more and sees his father Odin sitting down. Odin says to Loki that it is his time to return to the well of souls and vanish from existence. Loki demands to know Thor's location. Odin says that he is in the realm of the drwarves. Loki arrives in the realm to see Thor defeated. He is boastful but Enchantress and Skurge tell him that the glory was their own. Loki however chuckles, and instead points out how they are fools for thinking they could contain Surtur after creating their hammers. At that moment, Surtur rises and cuts a swath with his sword, killing Enchantress, Skurge, and the Demon Riders. Thor sees the danger posed by Surtur and demands Loki help him stop Surtur. Loki is ambivalent and states he would much rather wish to see Surtur destroy Asgard. Loki goes to Asgard and kills Heimdall finally, alongside the Warriors Three. He then transports Surtur to Asgard, leaving Thor on the realm of the dwarves.

Iron Man
Iron Man flies off to find the Hulk, this time in a new and improved red and gold suit. He assertains the Hulk's latest location to be on Gibraltar. He is confused but flies to that location regardless. When arriving overhead, he recieves fire from a futuristic anti-air gun of some kind. He gets sight of an advanced fort on Gibraltar. After weaving past the fire, he systematically takes down the fort's defenses. Suddenly after doing so, he is tackled to the ground by Namor the Submariner. The two fight while Namor employs the aid of his own troops. When Iron Man emerges victorious, Namor calls to the Hulk. Iron Man wonders why the Hulk would decide to be among Namor's ranks, but Namor explains they have one thing in common, they are both outcasts hated by society. Iron Man, clearly outmatched, has to use a number of different tricks before he finally is able to get the hulk to transform back into Bruce Banner after showing him a hologram projection of Betty Ross.

Iron Man prepares to fly off with Banner when Namor attempts to stop him, saying that they will get in the way of his plans of earning the rights of the sea and Atlantis from the world. Iron Man asks if he is also working with Loki, to which Namor responds many more villains are. With his suit too damaged to fight the Atlanteans converging on him, he asks Banner to turn into the Hulk once again.

Hulk
Banner agrees reluctantly and after transforming attacks the plethora of Atlanteans attacking, including multiple Atlantean warships which come up from under the sea. Namor then tries to take down the Hulk himself, deciding to take the Hulk to his own area where he excels at fighting, the sea. The Hulk has to bounce around the sunken Atlantean warships to avoid being dragged under by Namor during the fight. When not standing on something, he is immobile, and only when briefly jumping from out of the sea is he able to punch at full capacity. He can't perform many of his usual attacks underwater and his punches are much weaker and easier to dodge underwater

When Namor is defeated, Iron Man says that to him that his war against the surface is over. Iron Man finds he can't fly anymore as he is out of battery. The Hulk decides to leap across Gibraltar to Europe with Iron Man in hand.

Captain America
Captain America, Ant-Man, and the Wasp decide to track down the Kingpin and his growing crime syndicate. Captain America travels across the city, gathering information from various sources, including lowly criminals and major villains Scorpion and Crossfire, both of whom he has to defeat. From his encounters he ascertains the location of a meeting Kingpin is holding with almost all of the escaped criminals, as well as news of Hydra emerging once again. When he arrives at the meeting, which is being held in a high rise building, he is perplexed to see Hydra agents guarding the entrances. Nonetheless, he infilitrates it disguised as one of them, slowly making his way past each level until he finally comes across the Kingpin speaking to a number of various villains. Afterward, Red Skull steps forward and asks if the Kingpin is willing to make a deal, Hydra backing in exchange for parts intended to help construct a weapon which the likes of humanity have never seen.

As the villains split off now, under the Kingpin's guise, Captain America siliently follows Red Skull until he is stopped by Kingpin. He is questioned by Kingpin briefly until Captain America accidentally blows his cover. The two brawl across the expansive floor, including into a bar, a bedroom, and a gym. Captain America eventually is able to succsefully pin Kingpin under gym machinery. Kingpin says that he dosen't know what weapon Red Skull is intending to create. Captain America leaves him pinned down. Kingpin however calls for help from his guards and the villains while Captain America calls Nick Fury to send a team to pick Kingpin up.

Captain America takes on the villains as well as Hydra agents, all without his shield as he was forced to leave it outside. The villains he fights include the human fly, the living laser, and grizzley. Shield agents arrive eventually and toss Captain America his shield which they found around the building. They then pick him and Kingpin up. As Captain America is leaving, he catches a glimpse of the Red Skull, who also recognizes him.

Red Skull tells the villains that they work for him now, and will thus help him find the pieces to fulfill the rest of his plan. To this, they agree.

Ant-Man and the Wasp
Captain America reports to Ant-Man and the Wasp that Kingpin is down but Red Skull is still probably intent on getting the rest of the pieces for his machine. He tells them to be vigilant for news of any attacks.

Thor
Thor finds himself aboard the ship of the Collector in chains. He demands to be set free so that he can return to Asgard to stop Surtur. The Collector refuses. Thor is approached by Beta Ray Bill who recognizes him as the god of thunder. He realizes that Thor's hammer must have been destroyed, and says that he knows of a place, where a dying star resides, where a hammer mold can be found. Bill promises to take Thor there so that not only Thor can reclaim a new hammer, but so that he too can have his own hammer to protect his people. Thor is skeptical, believing that only someone with the physique of a god could take on a dying star. Bill however believes it is strength of mind and will that allows a hammer to be created.

Thor decides to override his cell with his lightning powers, believing that he can still generate lightning without his hammer. He succeeds and breaks free. He then breaks Bill out of his cell. The Collector's guards attack them, which forces Thor and Bill to choose a variety of different weapons off of the Collector's shelves. After defeating the guards, Bill and Thor decide to try to take command of the ship. The Collector however uses a variety of tricks against them as they try to approach him, including taking them through other worlds via portal and dropping his cases with collections in them, which often allow many kinds of beasts and creatures to attack the duo. Bill is left incapacitated, leaving Thor to take on the Collector. The two then fight. The Collector uses his variety of weapons to attack Thor with. After Thor defeats the Collector, he traps him in one of his cases.

Thor redirects the ship to land on the dying star. Thor and Bill both attempt to create their own hammers. Thor is able to create a new hammer, though at a high cost, while Bill appears to be on the verge of death by attempting the create his new hammer. Thor gives his last ounce of strength so that Bill is also able to wield a hammer. With both of their hammers in hand, they bid eachother fairwell. Thor flies off into space, creating a portal leading to Asgard. He is horrified to see that it has been plundered and ravaged by Surtur. He begins to fight Surtur. The battle turns to a stalemate, until Odin speaks to Thor from Valhalla, telling him to stand down and let the Ragnorok profecy be fulfilled. The souls of the Asgardians will pass onto Midgard, and it will be up to Thor to revive Asgard once more. After hearing this, Thor stands down and reluctantly leaves Asgard to be destroyed.

Moves
Thor's main moves come from his hammer. Using Mjiolnir itself, Thor can toss it at an enemy from afar or hit a foe directly with it. As well, he can throw it and call it back to his hand, in the process of doing so he can snag an opponent by the foot with the strap and make them fall onto their back or launch them away. Mjiolnir can also block energy projections and explosions when it is spun in a circular motion in front of Thor. If objects are thrown into it, they are able to be grinded and spit back out. Spinning Mjiolnir before throwing it can alo amplify the damage it does when it strikes an enemy.

Only with Mjiolnir equiped can Thor summon lightning attacks. There is the standard lightning bolt which can be summoned to hit an enemy. As well, a mini-storm can be summonned even inside enclosed enviornments, which deal a flurry of smaller lightning blasts. Another lightning based move is a lightning net, which can confine an enemy and continually electrocute them.

Moves
The first suit that is playable is basic in terms of abilities. It can deploy a heavy machine gun, which can potrude from either arm. As well, it is able use a mini-flamethrower and send out tear gas and explosive pellets. The suit can use simultaneasly use the repulsors in both hands, while the repulsor in the center of the suit coming from the arc reactor can be the only repulsor used. As well, it requires a cooldown after being used and it cannot be aimed.

As the story progresses, the suit can be further upgraded using XP to include various abilities including retractable blades, smoke bombs, EMPs, wrist-mounted lasers and missiles, taser-guns, a should-barrage, high-speed thrusters, heat-scanning, and suit manipulation.

Moves
The hulk mainly specializes in melee combat. This can entail a number of special moves. These include using a thunderclap to stun an enemy, stomping feet on the ground to disrupt an enemy's movement, being able to grab hold of and use almost anything as a weapon, and grabbing an enemy by the legs and bashing them into the ground from left to right. When the hulk grabs an object to use as a weapon, in some instances, particularly with cars, he can split it in half and attack with the object in both hands.

Using his speed, the hulk can also do other moves, such as running into them head on. This move can also be used to break through walls and obsticals. He is also able to grab flying objects fast and change their course, such as missiles and artillery shells. His leaping can be used to great effect as well. He can break through roofs when in an enclosed enviornment and can also leap great distances when in the open world. When faced with hostile vehicles, such as tanks, he can leap vertically into the air and return to the ground, crushing the vehicle.