Since the start of the games industry, the console market was flooded every summer with cheap movie tie-ins. That every one changed many years ago because the marketplace for those sort of games collapsed. Movie studios ever desirous to make a fast buck off of clueless parents then turned to mobile, and almost every major Hollywood blockbuster now has its own mobile game.

I open with that only to alert you that Marvel’s latest cinematic effort – Thor: The Dark World – may be getting its own mobile game from Gameloft. In an ideal world, a personality like Thor would receive a near perfect game that plays like Batman: Arkham Asylum through which he beats down baddies left and right together with his mighty hammer. Instead, we get this:

What is happening in that trailer? Is it an action RPG like Diablo, or is it a MOBA like League of Legends? The Gameloft press release doesn’t really say. All we all know is that players will tackle the role of Thor and lead a bunch of warriors against the invading dark elf forces in over 100 missions.

Oh, and the sport will incorporate social elements in addition to microtransactions. In other words, you’ll need to beg friends for help so as to progress, otherwise you should purchase your approach to victory. The sole redeeming feature here’s that the sport was apparently written by Thor: The Dark World screenwriter Christopher Yost.

If you have to give it a shot, the mobile tie-in to this November’s Thor: The Dark World could be available on iOS and Android alongside the theatrical debut.

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