
Electronic Arts has struck a deal that allows it to develop three games based on Marvel superhero properties. The first has already been announced: an Iron Man game from Dead Space remake team Motive Studio. It's going to be a single player, third-person experience that "taps into the rich history of Iron Man". The other two projects are unconfirmed at the time of writing.
However, rumours circulated earlier this year suggest one of the other two games will be based on Black Panther. This is separate from the unnamed Black Panther, Captain America crossover title from Amy Hennig that was revealed last month. EA's project based on the Wakanda leader will supposedly be a single player, open world, AAA experience. Back in July, Giant Bomb member Jeff Grubb said: "The game starts with Black Panther being dead and the player is going to take on the challenges of becoming the new Black Panther."
Publicly, the Marvel Games Twitter account has posted: "We’re thrilled to announce a multi-title collaboration between Marvel and EA to develop action-adventure games for consoles and PC! Each game will also be its own original story set in the Marvel Universe." EA has shown a renewed interest in single player games in more recent years, with the upcoming Dragon Age: Dreadwolf and a new Mass Effect title skipping any multiplayer implementation.
All three of these projects appear to be early in development, so don't expect to hear anything from them for a number of years. In the meantime, though, we have Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and Marvel's Wolverine from Insomniac Games to look forward to. The former is still slated to release next year.
[source bloomberg.com, via twitter.com]
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We’ll see. EA are actually pretty good with their single-player RPGs so if they’re anything like those, we’re golden. If they’re anything like Avengers, I’m out!
Guess single player games actually sale, who would have thought. Would love to see a m rated punisher game.
@Americansamurai1
A balance between SP and MP is a good thing because you are targeting 2 different demographics and companies want as much money as possible.
Hopefully better than their Star Wars output, barring a few exceptions.
good luck trying to make something as good as guardians of the galaxy that game is awesome
still didnt sell
@PCGamerInDisguise very true
EA seem to be a better place now for SP games so i'm fine with this news as more Marvel games the better.
@nessisonett like what?
I'm assuming being multi platform was a big factor. We'll see if it's good. They will be. Compared to the Sony offerings, I think that's inevitable. If they can at least reach that bar, gamers win.
Battlefield Vs CoD has had its winner crowned, EA lost the FIFA rights, so it's time to go all in and make a million single player games to make up the lost player numbers 😁 I'm all for it, honestly.
@Eagly have u ever heard of hulk ultimate destruction
need a ghost rider game ASAP
Fantastic four could be good too , but leave out live service since it can’t be done right
@Americansamurai1 that sounds great tbh. I'm not a big Punisher fan, I'm very casual when it comes to Marvel and DC, but as soon as I read your comment I thought, yes, I'd love that as a game.
I'd rather have someone like Remedy Entertainment tackle it, but yes, I think it'd both be interesting and sell well, just on concept alone, and stand out from what could be a tirade of super hero games in the next 5/10 years.
Wolverine and Punisher I could easily see as the best properties to play as gritty games, and we know one of those is coming.
Iron Man, hmm. Black Panther, hmm
@Cutmastavictory Star Wars Jedi, Mass Effect, Dragon Age all relatively recently. Dead Space remake is looking great too so they’ve clearly got previous with big single-player experiences.
@trev666 GOTG was a nice surprise but doing better than that game is far from impossible.
Ant Man using voxels
Between this and the three Star Wars projects Respawn is working on it seems like EA is all-in on making these Disney licensed games.
Do we really need 6 EA games from Disney's IPs? Kind of lame.
Fantastic. I really appreciate knowing of at least three titles in the works that I won't touch with a 10 ft pole.
@Victor_Meldrew What lesson would Disney have learned? All they care about is whether or not the games sell, so they can get their portion of the profit. They don't care about if the games are filled with loot boxes or anger the Star Wars fans base... That's EA reasonability to deal with. That why they stopped self-publishing games, so they reap all the benefits without any of the hardships.
I don't see this game working if it's not a VR game. It's Iron Man so he should fly, so the game has to be a sandbox. Hmm kinda reminds you of anything else ?? Spider-Man maybe ?? For this game to be successful should do something different, should leverage the power of PSVR2. Motive already has experience with VR, SW Squadrons had a really good adaption in VR. Imagine your headset buzzing when you're flying through the air, or the VR controllers when you use your repulsers to fight enemies. That's a game I want to play. Thoughts ??
Fingers crossed the other two games are also AAA single player offline games!
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