Key conclusions
- Marvel Rivals can have iconic locations like Manhattan and Wakanda that offer a variety of maps.
- Xavier's School and Hammer Bay can be exciting battlegrounds with unique gameplay opportunities.
- Potential maps like Ego The Living Planet and Atlantis could introduce dynamic elements to improve gameplay.
When it comes to franchises as long as Marvelthere's an unimaginably huge amount of options to draw from comics, movies, and television when it comes to designing new maps. But NetEase 6v6 shooter is only three months away, fans have only seen two spots so farspread over a choice of four playable maps during the game's beta.
The entanglement of the time stream caused by Dr. Doom opens up a world of possibilities for locations to enrich the game's lore, so here are some places that our heroes could visit when timelines and universes collide.
10 Manhattan, New York
Familiar border
Perhaps the most must-have addition to this game's card pool, New York has served as a battleground for countless battles around the world Marvel universe. Pushing your payload through the streets of the city – with Stark Tower serving as a potential last checkpoint for attackers to reach – could serve as a great goal for the game mode.
And with a premise Rivals of Marvel involving the collision of different worlds, the team can approach this in very interesting ways. For example, merging present-day New York with a futuristic version inhabited by Penny Parker in the year 3145.
9 Xavier's school for gifted youth
The perfect school for fighting
Rivals already has its share of X-Men, so it would make perfect sense for the Xavier Institute to appear in this game, perhaps as a dominance card. Moving between the school and the surrounding area as both teams try to capture multiple checkpoints will work like a dream.
Destructive environments presented in Rivals can allow teams to be incredibly creative with the way they play, such as punching through floorboards to move between levels of a building, or breaking out of windows to reach the lush gardens of Mansion X.
8 Kingdom of Wakanda
Land of prosperity
Considering that the King of Wakanda himself is a prominent member of the game's cast, it would be great to see this highly developed nation as it would fit in perfectly with rivals list of cards. The country is distinguished by an incredible variety of terrainso implementing it as a convergence map would take full advantage of this potential.
In the best-of-three game mode, players could fight in different arenas, among towering mountain ranges and dense jungles; within the complex infrastructure of the city; deep underground where its high-speed Maglev trains run.
7 Hammer Bay, Genosha
Rebellion for mutants
Located on the east coast of Africa, this fictional country is home to the city of Hammer Bay, where many X-Men were once imprisoned by the Genoshan Magistrate. The goal of the attackers here may be to capture the area and free the captive mutants, while the defenders try to hold the site to prevent a breach.
It also makes room for Rivalsto do Supervision– teasing style for a new hero in the future, updating the map to have the X-Man mysteriously disappear from their cells.
6 Muspelheim, the realm of fire
Duel in the depths of hell
Rivals of Marvel already confirmed the inclusion of the three Asgard gods as well as their home of Asgard, so it would be wise to see another one of the Ten Kingdoms. And while they would all be more than worth picking, this realm of eternal fire would add some nice visual variety to the card selection in the game.
Environmental effects like erupting lava pools and cavernous fire pits may be included to make the map more dynamic, and pushing payloads across bridges overhanging flaming canyons can create mesmerizing yet terrifying scenery.
5 Ego is a living planet
Heavenly stadium
The Guardians of the Galaxy seen more love than Marvel would never have thought since their 2014 film took the superhero genre by storm, it would only make sense to show them some love with their own card. Star-Lord's celestial father was the antagonist in the team's second adventure on the big screen, who they end up defeating by setting off a bomb in his brain.
Transporting explosives for detonation in its core can act as a target here as well, with Ego getting angrier with each control point the player captures, requiring players to stop and changing the environment.
4 The lost city of Atlantis
The land, long forgotten
Mutant Namor hasn't seen much airtime in recent X-Men projects, but experienced a resurgence in popularity since his MCU debut in 2022 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. With that, there's a good chance gamers will see this sunken kingdom take center stage Rivals of Marvel how the king of atlantis gets his own map.
The inclusion of Atlantis will probably include a city rising from the water for our heroes to fight, otherwise it can be a little harder to play some of the non-aquatic members Rivals' thrown.
3 Xandar, home of the New Corps
Interplanetary police station
With Timestream Entanglement completely shifts the fabric of the multiversesuch a powerful intergalactic force as the Nova Corps is likely to be involved in such a serious situation. The battle taking place in their homeland of Xandar fits in perfectly here.
This can be done either with the location in its natural state or after being attacked by invaders such as Thanos or the Skrulls. That would also leave room for Richard Ryder, better known as Nova, to join Rivals' list that would be a welcome addition to many comic book fans.
2 Spider-HQ, New York
Siege of the Spider Society
Miles Morales has had a lot of success latelywith both of his animated films receiving high praise from critics and fans alike. The New York home of the Spider Society, which appeared in the second film, would fit perfectly into this versatile card list.
The infrastructure of the base of the society is absolutely stunning in appearance, but can make for incredibly interesting gravity-based map mechanics. With the third and final film in the trilogy slated for release in the coming years, the spot could likely be released at the same time as the film, featuring Miles himself.
1 Dumstadt, Latvia
Doctor's house
With Doctor Doom serving as the catalyst for this game's events, his house in Latveria will surely appear at one point or another. The Siege of Von Doom Castle would most likely be the objective of the map, but the reason for this depends largely on the direction the game takes its lore.
With the evil Victor Von Doom pitted against his 2099 counterpart in this game, the team has many options for how they may want to portray the Doctor's tenure. Either way, this reunion seems more than necessary, and will be another welcome result of Doom's recent rise in popularity.
