The First Major JUMP FORCE DLC Is Reportedly Coming In May Bringing An All-New Character

Currently sitting at a rather mediocre 58% score on Metacritic (with nearly 40 reviews counted thus far), Jump Force still has a long way to come. While the title technically launched last Friday (alongside 4A Games' Metro: Exodus, Xbox Game Studios' Crackdown 3, and Ubisoft Montreal's Far Cry: New Dawn), it's hardly a finished one, as some of its features (like cutscenes) bring us back to the PS2 era.

Bandai Namco has announced that nine playable characters will join Jump Force is a series of paid DLC. Considering that the fighting extravaganza is already featuring 40 distinct fighters form beloved anime and manga series (including Naruto, Dragon Ball, Yu-Gi-Oh, My Hero Academia, Hunter X Hunter, and One Piece), the game's cast will consists of nearly 50 heroes and villains when it's all said and done.

According to the latest issue of the V-Jump magazine, the first optional character will come to Jump Force in May. While it's unclear how much you will have to pay to buy that mysterious individual, all nine additional fighters will be available as part of the game’s $29.99 “Character Pass.” At the time of writing, Bandai Namco had not revealed which characters will join the Jump Force roster as DLC.

For the first time ever, the most famous Manga heroes are thrown into a whole new battleground: our world. Uniting to fight the most dangerous threat, the Jump Force will bear the fate of the entire human kind. Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Weekly Jump Magazine, the game is making the most of latest technologies to bring characters to life in a never-seen-before realistic design.