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Iron Man's Roller Skates are Not in "Marvel's Avengers"… Yet

Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics shared quite a bit of new info about Marvel's Avengers at PAX West last week, along with a hands-on demo of the E3 level. The info session was scheduled after the hands-on demo and mostly went into detail on the core gameplay pillars and business model.

The gameplay pillars were essentially just marketing buzzwords. However, one piece of the presentation was good news for Marvel fans. The team at Crystal Dynamics is working with Bill Rosemann's Marvel Games division. Which means that they've got access to all versions of Marvel history. Which means they can pick and choose from 80 years of comics, film, tv, and games for everything from characters to plot ideas to cosmetic items.

Because Marvel's Avengers will be a premium game title with ongoing free content updates supported by cosmetic purchases, Crystal Dynamics will be heavily leveraging Marvel history in terms of character costumes. They showed off a few confirmed costumes for the five base Avengers, including the classic scale costume for Captain America, Hulk's Joe Fix-It persona, and Iron Man's black and gold Original Sin armor.

Naturally, as a fan of Marvel comics and Iron Man in particular, I had only one question at this point in the presentation: would we get access to Iron Man's roller skates?

For reference, this is the Iron Man suit in question:

It's certainly a suit worth remembering.

Now, Marvel's Avengers will have an RPG-like gear system, but that gear will not affect your cosmetic options. So the skates would have to be part of a costume. Which is fine, because the skate suit is pretty classic golden age Iron Man.

Sadly, the suit isn't confirmed for the game yet. As Crystal Dynamics' Head Scot Amos responded, "start a thread on reddit." Because if enough people want it, Crystal Dynamics is interested in delivering.

So if you have a costume or character you really want to see in this game, head over here to join the discussion.

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