All UMvC3 costume DLC priced and dated

by Jordan Mallory on Nov 19th 2011 1:30PM

Just like any relationship, the one between player and game can grow stale after a while. Eventually the fire dies down, even with a title as good looking and engaging as Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and a little extra something may be required to bring back that spark. As it turns out, the key to reigniting that passion is, just like any relationship, costumes.

Separated into (loosely) themed packs of 4 to 5 characters, UMvC3's Costume DLC will be gradually released between November 22 and February 21 at $4.00 (320 MSP) a pop. A "Value Pack" containing all 48 outfits will drop on March 6 at $20.00 (1,600 MSP) for the extremely patient fighters out there; everyone else should peep the gallery below, and hop past the break for a complete character/pack configuration breakdown.

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (Costume DLC)

November 22: The Rising Dead Pack

Frank West
Ghost Rider
Nemesis
Phoenix

December 2: The Evil Twin Pack

Deadpool
Hsien-ko
Spider-Man
Vergil

December 20: The Ancient Warrior Pack

Magneto
Arthur
Firebrand
Hulk

January 10: The Brawler Pack

She-Hulk
Iron First
Haggar
Spencer

January 17: The Femme Fatale Pack

Chun-Li
Morrigan
X-23
Storm

January 17: The Villain Pack

MODOK
Wesker
C.Viper
Super Skrull

January 17: The New Age of Heroes Pack

Doctor Doom
Sentinel
Strider
Akuma

January 24: The Animal Pack

Wolverine
Rocket Raccoon
Felicia
Amaterasu

February 7: The Weapon Expert Pack

Zero
Hawkeye
Taskmaster
Trish

February 21: The Viewtiful Strange Pack

Tron
Phoenix Wright
Viewtiful Joe
Doctor Strange
Dormammu

Tags: capcom, costumes, DLC, marvel, microsoft, playstation, ps3, ultimate-marvel-vs-capcom-3, xbox

Reader Comments (75)

*facepalm*

but that is pretty good business for Capcom. It takes almost nothing to produce one outfit for an already rendered character, make it four? Still nothing.

yet, Capcom sells this for $3 a pack to millions of people.

----> Easy Money.

@xiLeShadow

It's astounding how people eat this crap up. The game industry is in a downward spiral because of these type of tactics.

OccupyGaming.

The "costume packs" are all locked on the disc. They'lre all a 100KB unlock file that just unlocks what you've already bought.

It's obvious that Capcom still doesn't know how to program expansion packs or proper DLC, as evidenced by the fact that everyone has to re-buy the game rather than just release a DLC expansion that turns your original "Fate of Two Worlds" disc into Ultimate MvsC3.

It's painful to be a Capcom fan today. They need a wake-up call.

@xiLeShadow
" It takes almost nothing to produce one outfit for an already rendered character"

Oh please do give us the step by step.

@Cleric

It's rather painfully simple. Most of those costumes, like anything else, are nothing more complex than the recolors you see in older games. It's nothing but a shift of the graphics. Tron Bonne's mech for instance, same model and everything. It's just the skin of it was recolored.

@EIranzer They know how to. They just choose not to give us the cheaper way.

@DevilSei What? No.

@Cleric reskins are all the rage for Mugen... if ppl have been doint reskins for pc games. Street fighter 4 was loaded with fan made ones and movesets assigned to different fighters.seems pretty easy considering ppl had to make there own tools.so there actually is a step by step.

@Arsenic13 Word

@xiLeShadow DLC for a game that WAS DLC but got delayed so they did a stand alone!!

my God... my respect for Capcom has pretty much diminished.........

@EIranzer
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition DLC for $15 says hi.
Its not that they don't know how to make this stuff downloadable later on, its just better to come up with it in the development process. For example, the first run of Street Fighter IV costumes were all on the disc, and the second run was made for Super Street Fighter IV. The third run of costumes was all brand new though and was not on disc. It's just easier to spend the funding on it ahead of time and release it later. So they charge money for disc-locked content, a lot of companies do. Heck, that's practically what every XBLA and PSN demo do when they want you to buy the unlock key to the full game.

@Nolan North

To be fair, if you are meaning download titles it makes sense. Most of the games aren't TOO large, so if the person enjoys the game enough to buy it its as simple as clicking "Buy now" and a 1-2 second download. And if they don't, its a simple process to remove them from the hard drive.

@DevilSei But most of them AREN'T complex recolors. Most of them have different geometry. However, to know that, you would actually have to look at them. :\

@DevilSei
It's 1 to 2 seconds because you already downloaded the game when you downloaded the demo, buying the game is just an unlock key. You already did the game download.

Wow Capcom is slapping us Megaman X fans in the face....

Frank west gets an X alternate costume.
Teasing us with a picture from the comic.

And now ZERO has an X skin!!!!

Come on Crapcom, you should of made X in the first place not some lousy skin

@jmacri44 I keep hearing this everywhere, but really, I feel it's more capcom throwing you guys a bone somewhat. I'm pretty sure they had no intention of putting in X and after they heard the cries they at LEAST decided to put in a costume for you guys instead of just absolutely nothing.

@SoupSaladNBread

I understand but when Capcom-Unity, had two fan polls with X winning each poll by a landslide for most requesr DLC CHARACTER!! Not Skin..

Capcom makes the excuse that he wouldnt be iterated to the game well enough but yet somehow they included mega man in the first 2.

Capcom is just a lazy company. X Fans enjoy that we got zero, but thats like having Mario without Luigi, Sonic without Tails. Mega Man has been shafted by Capcom since Infuane left and its really a shame.

@jmacri44
i think you mean luigi without mario and tails without sonic. t

@jmacri44 you just need to wait for super ultimate marvel vs capcom 3 arcade edition

WHOA. The Okami/Darkstalker one is delicious.

In before people crying about Zero's Megaman X costume.

Ammy's Talbain costume is pretty sick and I'm tempted just to pick up the entire back when it drops since I'm really digging a lot of these

Wow...Capcom is making Activision jealous....

Haven't players of the original already pretty much bought $40 worth of DLC as it is?

You don't have to buy any of these.

@Calatia People still do, though. Having an option doesn't make it any less of a problem when more companies are doing things like this.

But I can see why some people don't mind having to buy things that used to be earn-able extra content.

@Arsenic13
Which alternate costumes in Street Figther were earnable? Because I certainly don't recall them. I recall recolors. But what alternate costumes were there in MvC? Oh? There weren't any? Funny.

@Cleric How much are they paying you to defend their honor? Oh nvm, you're paying them.

@Arsenic13 Why would they release them for free as in-game unlockables when so many people will just blindly buy them? Anyone who buys these is pretty much asking to be nickel-and-dimed again in the future.

@Arsenic13

Hey now, you're the one trying to argue a completely optional thing that never existed before is something you can't ignore.

No need to whipping out the "someone's paying you to type this, aren't they?" card when you're already being unreasonable.

It a indicator that you're either trollin' or someone that overreacts to everything on the internet (and thus attract trolls like a Billy Goat).

@Calatia
youre completely right after all its content thats already on the disc, you should already have access to it.

But.

It.

Is.

On.

The.

Disc.

@Exu

People are dumb, they will buy it nonetheless

I would have expected that Phoenix Wright's DLC alt would turn him into Miles Edgeworth.

I've said it before, but that Udon created alternate costume for Taskmaster is just absolutely gorgeous and I would probably pay $50 for it.

@Rocket Raccoon

it is pretty badass. but what's with that Deadpool costume? he's got super aZn hair and looks like he's wearing Cable's signature "pouches with stuff that he never uses" utility belt / strap. ugly.

I really hope that Capcom continues to do this NOT because people are buying costume DLC but because they want people to THINK that costume DLC is popular.

Please don't buy costume DLC. Eventually they will either stop making it or put the costumes back in the game as extra free content.

The only ones I even like are Taliban Amaretsu, Businesswoman She-Hulk, Defendant Phoenix Wright, Trish as Gloria, and maybe Morlock Storm.

Only 4-5 out of 48 I like is a pretty grim showing IMO.

Damn that's a lot of planned DLC. I'll wait for the value pack, or the ultimate edition a month later.

I wish Capcom knew how lousy a business they are.
It literally seems like every week they do something completely stupid.

Great, more stupid package-deal nonsense from capcom.

They would get so many more sales if they just priced them individually.

No thank you, will wait for Ultimate to go down to 20 and get this the bundle in 20. Then I will had brought the full game for the same price. I hate this DLC market ways Capcom has run for the past 3 years.

@SilverPR Or better, don't buy the costumes and spend the twenty on something else.

I'll wait for the inevitable rererelease.

Unbelievable, here's hoping karma sends Capcom into bankruptcy. Wow...

I hate DLC.

$20? WHAT A BARGAIN!

Tron? I think that's a typo and is supposed to be Thor. It's a shame you have to buy these things in packs, as there are a few I'd buy for $1-1.50 each, but I usually only want one in the pack. If I was tempted by any pack it'd be the Thor pack, I like those skins overall and you get a bonus 5th skin.

@Hoops Thor already has his, it was in MvC3:FTW, it carries over if you still have it.

@Hoops Tron Bonne, she's a character in the MEGAMAN LEGENDS games. That's her in the mech in the article picture.

@PulpHero Oh, I see. Thanks to the both of you.

I will look into getting this game some time next year when it hits the $20 mark. Of course by then we may have an arcade edition or something on the horizon. But I would like to get this eventually.

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