New Avengers Movie Uniforms

In advance of the May 4 premiere of "Marvel's The Avengers," Marvel has launched a series of movie-themed costumes that will allow Avengers fans to play as their favorite movie character in the hit Facebook game "Marvel: Avengers Alliance."

These special edition costumes reflect the look and characteristics of their movie counterparts, and also trigger new "Avengers Assemble" team abilities.

The "Avengers Assemble" rewards any team with a movie-costume Avenger with the status "Coordinated Attack," which triggers a follow-up attack whenever your movie-costume Avenger attacks the enemy.  When players fight battles with a second movie-costume hero, the team is also awarded "Coordinated Defense" status, which triggers a counter-attack when movie-costume hero is attacked by an enemy.

The Black Widow and Hawkeye uniforms are live in the game now, while the additional movie-themed uniforms will debut in the coming days.

Costume Descriptions

• Captain America: His super-serum strength allows players to purchase and equip a new costume that sets him as a Bruiser or go with the classic and set him up as a Tactician.
• Thor: Bring down the lightning and set up Thor's movie persona as a Blaster, or stick with the Bruiser to deliver some massive hammer damage.
• Black Widow: Exploit vulnerable weaknesses by tapping into her inner-Tactician, or concentrate on speed as her original Infiltrator class.
• Hulk: Tap into Hulk's rage by setting him up as a Scrapper or stick to his incredible strength and equip the Bruiser version of his movie costume.
• Hawkeye: Set up the master marksman with an Infiltrator class or stick to his original Tactician roots.
• Iron Man: As a genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist, you'd expect Iron Man to make a great Tactician; players can also lean on the power of his Mark V armor and keep him as a Blaster.

Captain America, Thor, and Hulk are three of the most powerful Heroes in the game currently.  Save your Command Points to purchase the new Avengers movie-themed uniforms for these three Heroes.  They're only available for a limited time!

UPDATE:  The new uniforms came out on May 4, 2012.  You have 24 days (until May 28) to get the ones for Captain America and Hulk; and 17 days (until May 21) to get the ones for Iron Man and Thor. The ones for Black Widow and Hawkeye came out earlier and you have 10 days left (until May 14) to get those.


Excerpted from: New Avengers Costumes; reformatted with emphasis and notes added