I was pretty excited to play the new MCU Avengers-themed mode in Marvel Rivals to celebrate the movie's 14th anniversary, but after just a couple of games, I'm completely done with it.NetEase Games advertised the new Path to Doomsday: The Avengers mode in Marvel Rivals as an asymmetric PvP experience honoring the 2012 Avengers movie, and I suppose they weren't lying. But as far as any other redeeming qualities, it has missed the bar completely.Screenshot by DestructoidThe mode features one team of the original MCU Avengers (pictured above) versus one player as an utterly overpowered, ridiculously strong version of Loki. RIDICULOUSLY strong. His ability set makes it a fight against six other players, but it doesn't feel very fair if you're on the Avengers thanks to Loki's outrageous ability set.Loki can spawn clones of himself and go invisible like usual, but now he deals incredibly high damage with his attacks, and he's also got a mind control ability that allows him to take control over any Avenger and fight against their teammates or, as shown in this video from streamer Necros, jump off the map completely. It's beyond broken, especially considering the Avengers have no healer and can only regain HP from health packs around the maps.What's worse, though, is that the rest of the mode feels lazily thrown together. It's played on a variety of Domination maps that have absolutely nothing to do with the Avengers movie at all, so it doesn't feel like there was much extra thought put into it beyond making it Avengers vs. Loki, and it's just a massive disappointment.I'm sure NetEase will make some balancing to Loki in the coming days because feedback is overwhelmingly negative about how strong the character is, but the playerbase's perception of the mode so far is not very good, to say the least.The best part about the mode is that, every time you respawn after being merked by Loki yet again, you hear the classic Avengers movies' theme song. But that's about where my enjoyment ended after five consecutive matches of getting utterly destroyed by Loki. Path to Doomsday will add more content down the line this year including additions honoring Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame, leading up to Avengers: Doomsday's release in December. I sincerely hope the future content drops will be better than this one is on day one, because as cool as this idea may have sounded in theory, the execution was a complete miss.The post Marvel Rivals’ special Avengers mode is lazy, unbalanced, and just not very fun to play appeared first on Destructoid.