Wonder Woman Game

The Wonder Woman title in development at Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor developer Monolith Productions is said to be facing significant issues and is in fact still "years away from release", according to a new report from Jason Schreier of Bloomberg.

First announced in December 2021, the DC project has struggled to "coalesce" and was rebooted along with a switch of directors early last year. Now, sources speaking to Schreier suggest the game is still years away from being finished, if it even "makes it to market". The game has reportedly already cost more than $100 million so far and no longer even has the Nemesis system made famous by Monolith's previous two games.

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According to Schreier, an "initial version of Wonder Woman tried reimagining the Nemesis system with the game’s namesake heroine befriending enemies, but that idea has since been tossed out in favor of a more traditional action-adventure game".

It's claimed that for the three years before Wonder Woman's announcement in 2021, Monolith Productions was working on a new IP that would "experiment with procedural storytelling". Publisher Warner Bros wasn't "particularly interested in creating new characters and universes from scratch", but despite executives seemingly knowing the project would never come together, it waited three years to officially cancel the game.

Head of studio, Kevin Stephens, and the majority of his directors left the developer at this point for EA, and those remaining started up the Wonder Woman game we know today. However, the issues of the fallout are said to still linger, and are one factor along with problems "surrounding the game's technology" why Schreir's sources aren't confident in the game ever releasing.

[source bloomberg.com]