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Marvel Trading Card Game

Marvel Trading Card Game is a virtual card game in which the player chooses to be either a superhero or supervillain in single-player mode. Multiplayer modes are also available. The game follows the rules laid…

61 27 February 2007

Marvel Trading Card Game is a card & board game developed by Vicious Cycle Software, released 27 February 2007 on Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Marvel Trading Card Game is

Marvel Trading Card Game is a card & board game game developed by Vicious Cycle Software and released in 2007. It was published by Konami. It is available on Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Marvel Trading Card Game is a virtual card game in which the player chooses to be either a superhero or supervillain in single-player mode. Multiplayer modes are also available. The game follows the rules laid out in Upper Deck's VS System, used in card games across several franchises including Marvel, DC Comics, and Hellboy. The game received mixed reviews from critics. It was considered faithful to the physical version, but reviewers commented that it was not accessible to players who weren't already fans of collectible card games. The handheld versions were criticized for presenting a visual format inappropriate for small screens.
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How it was received

Marvel Trading Card Game holds a critic score of 61 out of 100. That places it above 28% of the 303 rated card & board game games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 3 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Marvel Trading Card Game launched on 27 February 2007, within three weeks of God of War II, Professor Layton and the Curious Village, Peggle and Crackdown. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: God of War II, Professor Layton and the Curious Village, Peggle, Crackdown.

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When did Marvel Trading Card Game come out?
Marvel Trading Card Game was released on 27 February 2007 for Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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