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Eight superheroes we'd love in video games

Rocket and Groot, superhero characters. (Courtesy)

Marvel’s successes with their video games have been a hit and miss over the years. For every great game like Marvel: Ultimate Alliance or Spider-Man 2, there have been a dozen dumpster fires like X-Men: Destiny or Fantastic Four. One of the consequences of this limited success is that Marvel tends to only give the biggest names a chance to shine in the video game world, namely Spider-Man and the X-Men.

We would like to see a game led by some of the heroes that have so far been relegated to bit players in an ensemble or worse, a cameo appearance in a cut scene.

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