I've never read Invincible, but through playing the acclaimed comic's new licensed fighting game, I feel I've gotten to know its characters inside and out. I don't say that because I know any more about them than when I started, but because it's pretty easy in this game to punch people into showers of gore.
About a dozen seconds into the intro cinematic, Invincible Vs's titular teen hero is launched by his own father through a bypassing stranger's head, killing them instantly. My first point of feedback is that this guy seems extremely vincible.
It's good that he has friends then, since this is a 3v3 tag fighter like Marvel vs. Capcom or Dragonball FighterZ. And assists are truly where the game shines—each character has a relatively simple suite of moves split between light, medium, heavy attacks, specials, boosted variants of specials, and supers, but the fun really begins when you start using multiple kits in tandem.
You can swap in your buds during a fight for either one-and-done assist attacks or an active tag, which lets you switch to piloting...


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