Marvel should do for games what it did for movies — here are 14 superheroes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe that deserve their own video games

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If you enjoyed Spider-Man's role in the new blockbuster film "Avengers Infinity War," there's good news: Spider-Man has a new video game coming out later this year for the PlayStation 4, and you can even unlock Spidey's "Infinity War" costume in the game.

It's a great little tie-in across Marvel's films, comic books, and video games, of a kind that fans would love to see more of. Of course, there have been plenty of Marvel games before, but only the upcoming "Spider-Man" game looks like a suitably modern and fitting tribute to the character as we know and love him today.

This got us thinking: What if Marvel Games, currently a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, could do for video games what Marvel Studios did for film?

Here are 14 other Marvel Cinematic Universe characters besides Spider-Man that deserve their own modern video game treatments:

Thor, Iron Man and Captain America

Thor, Iron Man, and Captain America all got video game treatments when their first Marvel movies came out. But those games were made at a time when the Marvel Cinematic Universe wasn't as mature, or big, or important as it is today. And given how all three of these fan-favorite characters have been in several movies at this point, it's time they each get games that do them justice.

1. Thor

The new "God of War" game for PlayStation 4 introduces one of the best new weapons in a video game: the Leviathan Axe, which can be thrown at enemies and recalled to your hand like a magnet. It's highly reminiscent of a certain Marvel superhero demigod and his trusty hammer.

A Thor video game could copy this incredibly clever mechanic — offering a weapon that can hit enemies up close, but also be thrown and hits even more enemies on the way back to your hand — but to be fair, the Thor comics and films introduced this weapon concept came way before "God of War" came out.

2. Iron Man

Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man, is the hero who started it all for the Marvel Cinematic Universe — but he deserves a better video game than the ones he got. Yes, the first two "Iron Man" movies got games for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii, but those games are largely forgettable.

What a modern Iron Man game could do is explore the fun part of the character, which we really got to see in "Iron Man 3": all the different suits. A game that lets you explore an open world as Iron Man, but let you also build and upgrade Iron Man suits to take on different tasks and targets, could be incredibly fun, especially if it has a crafting system similar to "Monster Hunter World" where you must gather materials from increasingly difficult targets to build newer and stronger suits.

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