Marvel’s Avengers: First impressions of Kate Bishop
People have been waiting patiently for Marvel’s Avengers to introduce Kate Bishop. Now that she’s here, was it worth it? Answer? Yes! Very much yes!
December 8th, 2020, Marvel’s Avengers got its best update. Not it’s biggest, mind you, but definitely the most fun. Kate Bishop, my personal favorite Hawkeye, has entered the arena, and oh my goodness, is she incredible.
When you first start, you have to do an after campaign mission where Iron Man leads a squad to go look into remarkably obscure Marvel character Lyle Getz, the original Scientist Supreme. Along the way, the team starts encountering a ton of adaptoid robots. Luckily for the team, they’ve already been dispatched…with a LOT of arrows.
Ultimately this leads Iron Man to find out that Kate Bishop is already here, single-handedly going after Getz as well. During this time, she and Iron Man share some of the greatest pun-filled dialogue in the entire game, showcasing that they have a history. This fantastic dialogue is made all the better by the fact that Kate Bishop is voiced by the incredible Ashly Burch. The back and forth between here and Iron Man voice actor Nolan North is something I could listen to all day long like some sort of bizarre, dad joke-filled ASMR.
Eventually, Kate decided to hop back in with the Avengers and, together, you track down the wayward (and creepy) Lyle Getz who has got himself a new ride.
From there on in she gets a room on the helicarrier and you get to take her through all of the previous redundant adventures.
Luckily something that helps with the games redundancy issues is that she is a complete game-changer. While all the other characters have noticeable RPG archetypes, Kate Bishop comes straight out of a third-person shooter.
Originally I went in using her sword to fight and kept running into problems so I started playing with her ridiculous toolset and…wow. Soon I was falling back taking out enemies from afar. And unlike Iron Man or Black Widow who burns away a special meter every time you use a ranged weapon, Kate can fire all day long.
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Out the gate she has three different arrows, a standard one, a spread shot and an explosive one that falls heavy like she’s firing out a cinder block. Each one requires you to aim a little different. Over time you unlock other arrows as well. Soon I was firing a warp arrow to teleport myself into battle, slash around with a sword and then dive backward as a fired a smoke arrow at my confused opponent.
In addition to her ridiculous amount of arrows, she has also stolen a bunch of tech from AIM. Most importantly a short-range teleporter belt. Which explains why Monica does not have the short-range teleporting belt she always had in the comics. Holding down the right shoulder button and hitting jump allows her to teleport up in the air, and the right shoulder and dash teleporters her forward.
So not only does Kate has ridiculous versatility and can take out enemies from afar, it’s REALLY hard to get her cornered and overwhelmed as she can just bamf out of there.
All in all, I think she’s absolutely incredible. Her costumes save her signature ones are the worst I’ve ever seen but when playing her feels so good I don’t care what she threw on.