It sounds like Marvel doesn’t want its upcoming video game projects to tie into each other.
In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Marvel Games VP and creative director Bill Rosemann explained this decision allows for more artistic freedom.
“The world is, amazingly, very familiar and accepting of the multiverse,” Rosemann said. “We have all these different realities. Now they’re all real, and we want to give everyone the freedom to tell their story. We don’t want to say ‘you can’t blow up the moon, because this game over here by another studio needs the moon’. We want to give everyone the freedom and the clear lane to tell their story.”
Many thought Disney wouldn’t go this route since the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is so staggeringly popular, but that extra creative wiggle-room will likely benefit developers tremendously. Marvel’s Midnight Suns and Iron Man from EA Motive will probably both have Tony Stark – yet it won’t be the same version of the billionaire playboy everyone loves.
“Every decision [EA Motive] are making about their Marvel universe, their Tony Stark, their Iron Man… they’re building it from the ground-up,” Rosemann continues. “But it is being built with what we call Marvel building blocks. When you play the game, it may not be the Iron Man story that you’ve experienced before, but there will be many similar things.”
In the same interview, Rosemann teases other unannounced Marvel video games. Here’s to hoping those Black Panther rumors are legit.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
