Thanks to recent developments made in the modding community for the game, custom character mods have been possible after breaking through the game’s built-in limitations. This has resulted in one known as the Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 palette swap mod, which utilizes existing character costume slots in the roster and replaces them with brand-new characters. This has resulted in characters like Thanos, Ultron, and Asura being playable by replacing the character costumes of Mike Haggar, Frank West, and Iron Man, respectively. These mods do the same thing, adding the aforementioned Venom and Carnage.

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This mod was created by CaliKingz01, and they posted a trailer of this mod’s release to celebrate the new year. This trailer starts with gameplay of Carnage, with the theme song from his debut video game, Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage for nostalgia. The models and voice clips are reused from Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, with both Carnage’s normal and Omega variants being playable with this mod.

Following Carnage’s gameplay, Venom appears afterward, in a sequence that mimics Maximum Carnage as well. Venom’s gameplay is lifted from his incarnation from Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite, where he uses both web-based and symbiote-based attacks. His voice clips are also taken from Infinite, albeit pitched down to make his voice deeper and more akin to some of his more intimidating and beloved performances. This mod also adds an Anti-Venom outfit as well.

Many fans were impressed with this mod for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, as it uses a lot of elements from characters on the base roster and other games to accomplish this. Specifically, this mod uses the costume slots of X23 in the base game, while Venom uses Trish’s slots. Plenty of fans loved this mod for the amount of nostalgia it brings, with the usage of Green Jelly’s Carnage Rules being the highlight.

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is available now on PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.

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