Marvel Rivals’ Spring Festival event is already being compared to Overwatch’s Lúcioball

NetEase Games has revealed the Marvel Rivals Spring Festival event, which adds a handful of new hero skins and a soccer game mode that may sound familiar to Overwatch and Rocket League players.

The team behind the hit hero shooter announced its latest update with a trailer below, promising to ring in the new year with the Clash of Dancing Lions game mode and the Fortune & Colors Gallery card customization event starting January 23rd at 9am UTC to open.

Let’s not beat around the bush: Clash of Dancing Lions looks a lot like Overwatch’s long-running summer event Lúcioball. The standard version of both modes pits players against each other in 3v3 soccer matches, with some unique twists that take advantage of their heroes’ abilities. However, both obviously take elements from Psyonix’s hugely popular Rocket League, and it looks like the Marvel version of the expanded football experience has a few differences too.

For starters, the limited-time mode appears to focus on at least three characters – Star-Lord, Iron Fist and Black Widow – rather than just one hero. The soccer ball also appears to be the size of an average, real ball, as players can be seen carrying it through the opposition and toward the goal. Marvel Rivals and Overwatch already have more than a few things in common, but it will be hard to tell how similar Clash of Dancing Lions and Lúcioball are until the Marvel event arrives in a few days.

The Marvel Rivals Spring Festival event allows players to complete tasks for rewards, including the Star Lord Lion’s Mane costume seen in the trailer. Further details remain under wraps, but NetEase tells players that they can earn other goodies as part of the event such as a name tag, spray and more. While the new video also showed off the Iron Fist Lion’s Gaze and Black Widow Lion’s Heartbeat outfits, the developers are only telling fans to expect the three skins to appear in the game “in the coming weeks.” .

In other Marvel Rivals news, players are still looking forward to the accompanying Marvel’s Spider-Man skin coming later this month. Meanwhile, many community members are still discussing the project’s alleged bot problem and what it could mean for the future of Marvel competitive video gaming. For more information on NetEase’s popular hero shooter, check out all active Marvel Rivals codes here.

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