My experience:
When I first played, it was thanks to a sale for iron man and captain america. These two characters gave me a good start and a good experience. After playing my first few hours and got the feel for everything, I started to find myself grinding. Many players to help you on your adventures along side team-up partners to help you in fights. Exploring the world of Marvel was fun, even for none comic fans, you can skip video's if needed. You have a top down view but it works very well with the gameplay. In the options, i'd recommend checking it all out, it can help with inventory space, picking up items and more. There is a random feel to the game both missions & towns / citys. Ingame achivements in the 10k ratio & for Steam under 100. Gameplay value is pretty good considering the price is free. Entirnty & cube shards are pretty good to remember and always take them as they pay for characters and uniqe unlocks.

Loot / levelup system:
The item loot system is intresting, the level system in play is very intresting. I found myself wanting to levelup characters to 50 and earn omega points as fast as I could. You'd have to check it out for yourself to better understand it.

In-game cash shop?:
Yes, it has a shop. I currently have spent 15$ on this game & feel it was worth it. You can buy your way up, speed up gathering or take chances on finding rare loot. Fix buy's such as costumes, powerup tokens & boosts. Buying stash is a thing too. The S.T.A.S.H is probly the most decent price set at a fix 5$ USD. Remember, most of the items you do actually see in the cash shop can actually be awarded via loot, chance or ingame shops, Events & in-game cash or prizes.

MMORPG Aspect:
It's a MMORPG indefently. I think the only downside for most MMO users for this game is the lack of character customization. I mean, you can't create you're own character, you unlock characters and have fashion.

Boss fights, dungeons, battles?:
Many random boss events throughout Marvel heroes. You can fight good guys too. The bosses normally fought in citys or danger rooms require help, can be very tanky, deadly but rewarding. Most cases, if your running terminals suspificly green or red, you should be great even on solo runs. This game is Solo lonewolf supportive for those die hard solo runners.
Terminals:
These are somewhat the dungeons you run as you grow to lvl 60. Terminals are very rewarding and can have random aspects. Run terminals 1 of each a day to gain cube shards and rewards. Green is easier, red more difficult.
Danger rooms:
A unige dungeon creation processing room that allows you to generate or create tickets to portals of simulation. Each ticket can have random properties such as con's and pros. Its very random and has a very intresting feel. Danger rooms can be very difficult and shows difficulty ratings before you create the portal. You can sell them for alot too. Each ticket has its own rarity and can be located within the game off random bad guys, bosses, or cosmic enemys. The danger room from what little i've played has me intrested in playing more.

Is this more PTW than it is FTP?:
I'd have to say no, it's a choice. If you want to save money, you can buy the stuff you feel you want or need. You also get much more gameplay value if you don't spend money in the cash shop however, There is many PTW options but there is many FTP ways around these PTW options if you got the time to spend. Most people would rather just spend the few bucks tho to get comfortable. Therefore i'd say it is open for PTW. I must add tho, not all of it is PTW and must be achivied within the game. There is many good ftp options that is some what a must for all.

Gameplay?:
Coop. It is based for coop. The game is prefect for friends and users that rather team-up gameplay than fight one another. There is pvp and has the word Beta, I've never tried it. It has a PlayStation 2 console game feel to it. I remember seeing some of Marvel games top down view back in the day. They seemed good and always had good sound fx, gameplay, features.


Rating:
Gameplay: 8
Soundfx: 8
Graphics: 6
FunFactor: 8
Total: 8.7

Sidenote:
Umbrella Korp approves this game.

There are alot of ups and Downs when it comes to this game. I'll probably just do a Pros/Cons list, Cause i personally think there the best to understand. Just know that this is comeing from a player who has been with the comunity for about 2-3 years.

Pros-

An Impressive Roster. From Fan Favorites such as Spider-Man and Iron Man, to some heroes you may never even heard of, such as Squirrel Girl or Moon Knight. The game includes, currently, almost 60 different characters. Which is for a game of this style rather impressive.

Perhaps one of the best designed heroes/villains/costumes in a Marvel game. I think this is where the game shines: It's Design Team. Some of there works are absolutely breathtakeing.

Roleplaying. I'm not interested in that kind of stuff, But there are severel guilds, (Called 'supergroups' When it comes to this game) that are based around Roleplaying. If you've ever wanted to pretend your Spider-Man, then go for it.

Excellent Voice work. When it comes to a heroes' voice over, They know who to cast. While some may not be perfect for the character (Venom being the shineing example here. {Did i mention they started adding villains these days? Gobby, Venom, Doom.} ) A large majority of them are from the person who made there roles famous. Liked Drake Bell as Spidey? Well he does Spidey, in his younger aged costumes. When it comes to older, we have Cristopher Daniel Barnes, The voice actor famous for voiceing him in the 90's Cartoon. Not only that, The comedy orientated characters have some really witty, funny lines (Yes, Deadpool's lines cant be beat.) And some rather epic lines between more serious characters(DD the best example of those here)

A Large amount of content. The names wont quite matter, if you havent played the game, but it's important to note How many options you have when it comes to end game.

FREE! Literally, If all of this dosnt appeal to you, Download it right now. It isnt going to cost you anything. You get 1-3 heroes of your choice at the start of the game, for Free. Besides things like Costumes, alot of this game is free. Dont like it? Dont spend money on it, and uninstall. The only thing you wasted is time.

Yes, For a game with alot of pros, It also has a good amount of cons.

Cons-

A rather pessimistic Community. Dont tell anyone i said that :P While most people will disagree, because 'Ninja Gifters' are a thing(I think you have a good idea what those are) The community isnt great. Granted, it's no LoL when it comes to terrible communities, but it's still not the most likeable. People arent makeing terrible jokes, no. But they will be more then willing to scam someone, or do everything they can to annoy another player. Dont let this push you away from the game though, it's a thing in ANY Online game you can ever play.

Some heroes arent portrayed exceptionally well. Venom........ To Devoted fans of the character, you'll be sick to see how the game did him. His lines were so bad, severel of them were removed when he was first revealed. And that's nothing to say aside of all the lines that stayed. But we also have heroes like Luke Cage, extremely limited in his powerset(Atleast right now he is) or Taskmaster, who though it fits his lore, is rather limited in his playset, and has very, very few lines.

Slow. This game can be played on weaker com♥♥♥♥rs, But it simply isnt as fun. This is a game that unless you have a good com♥♥♥♥r, Expect crashes, long load screens, and crashes. Lowering the graphics helps, But then you wont be able to see all the amazing designs in there full glory.

My Opinion: Download the game. Like it? Buy your favorite hero a costume. Dont like it? Uninstall and give an honest answar why you didnt enjoy it.

And to any new players: if you need advice about the game, I'll gladly take friend requests from Steam/Ingame, and i'll give you tutorials on anything you require. Enjoy the Game!

Wow, Spider-Man AND Deadpool are in diablo? I'm sold. Thanks Blizzard.

BUYER BEWARE!

Marvel Heroes is a fun-enough free-to-play game that is really just a clickfest and collection/hoarding/item management endeavor masquerading isometric action-rpg in the vein of a Diablo. Don't get me wrong, it is pretty fun to click frantically your way through famous Marvel settings and over and through famous Marvel villains. The little inside jokes and nods, the esoteric easter eggs of the Marvel Universe, are what keep me coming back.

Here is my big problem with the game: When it comes to buying things in-game, these people are shady and intentionally misleading. I saw a banner in-game for a BOGO offer on team-up heroes. Nowhere on the banner or on the page where you select the characters you wish to purchase was there any disclaimer other than the fact that Miles Morales was exempt from the promotion... indicating by context that any other character was available as a free option.

It turns out that you were not able to select both team-up heroes, but instead would receive a random team-up hero for free with purchase of one of them. This was never made clear anywhere inside the game. I apporached the game's support for a refund or a currency correction for the mix-up and was told that NO REFUNDS OR ADJUSTMENTS are given and that those characters were permanently tied to my account even though I hadn't used them or redeemed the tokens. I gave several options for restitution or even just some conciliatory gesture for the mix-up. The only info that was given to me is that there was an faq on the website that explained the free team-up would be random (but there was no way of accessing that faq from the game where I purchased the character) and that they 'understood my frustration'.

Bottom line, these people are immoral and intentionally deceitful. For a free time waster as a Marvel fan, you could do worse. But make no mistake, making any purchase in this game is funding crooks. These people ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Excellent game, great graphics, fantastic developers who listen to the players input. Great community, not a play to win game, and a game that keeps sucking you back in. Few free to plays hit it on the noggin, and this is one of those rare ones that just did it right, and listened.

It's a pretty short game.

You can run chapter 1 - 9 really quickly and in order to do chapter 10 you'll need to grind a bit as you need to be level 60 to even start it.

You can earn playable heroes and team-up heroes for free but it's going to take A LOT of grinding. People say it's not that long or not that much but if you're a MMO veteran you already know that's just bs.

It's enjoyable for at least one playthrough with your favorite Marvel Hero.

It makes you feel like your favorite super hero! Has a fun campaign with lots of support from other players. Once I beat the game I did not play it anymore, but it's a free game with a fun story and compelling multiplayer. Worth the download!!

This game earns itself a solid... MEH to a MEH-plus.

Dont' get me wrong, I've killed some time playing this and even spent some cash on buying characters (during Xmas sales), but it's kinda like a poor-man's Diablo. It's just more of the same with different characters.

On the plus side it's free and you can earn characters through the various movie-tie-in giveaways (i.e. Don't have Thor? Wait until Ragnarok is released in the movies and they'll likely give you a code to get Thor free - quite nice/awesome how they do that) and by earning shards in-game through playtime.

GG

Decent ARPG, really free to play, you can get everything the game has to offer without spending money , except for the extra bank space which lets you hoard more items.
Recommended if you are a Marvel fan as it lets you play a great number of heroes and villains, otherwise keep looking for another way to pass your time.