The MCU may be on hold, but the video game versions are bigger and better than ever.
Thor and Hulk are at it again.
“Just like old times,” says the Asgardian, referencing a bit from 2012’sAvengersmovie.
Insomniac Games
Only this isn’t their next blockbuster sequel.
It’s their first blockbuster video game.
“It’s all about what talent is available?
Crystal Dynamics
Do they want to work with Marvel?
If so, what’s their passion?
It became the best-selling superhero game of all time, at over 13 million units.
“I mean, you don’t [really] know.
There’s this ultimate fear of screwing up one of the most popular characters.”
They still didn’t know if they could make a sequel.
“We would tease it during development.
Can we have a game with him?'”
After that, “they were fully on board with the idea” for a sequel, Intihar says.
Rosemann thinks of that firstSpider-Manas “proof of concept.”
It’s not a formal sequel toSpider-Man.
It’s a shorter spin-off, likened in scope to theLost Legacygame in theUnchartedseries.
Nevertheless, Intihar promises “it has a lot of heart.”
“We really are completing this hero’s coming of age in our game.
It is a complete story.”
Peter’s origin “was born out of tragedy” i.e.
the death of his Uncle Ben but Horton mentions Miles “is more so born out of family.
He’s a little different in the way he approaches it.”
It’s more like a Spider-Verse.
“Currently, our plan is to keep each game set in its own Marvel universe.”
So, while this year’sAvengerswon’t be linked toSpider-Man, it has its own web-slinger.
Spider-Man has been confirmed to arrive inMarvel’s Avengersas a DLC story sometime after launch.
The game kicks off with what will become infamously known as A Day.
Her origin here “was the bedrock from the beginning,” says head of studio Scot Amos.
“Kamala feels like that new generational character.”
“It started in a very broad way: was there anything we could do?”
“It took a couple of years of saying, ‘What could that look like?'”
“The MCU was doing its thing, but we looked even deeper,” he says.
Kamala proved to be a particularly “exciting moment” for them.
“She has her own internal struggles.
She’s a fan of superheroes, particularly a fan of the Avengers.
She’s trying to figure out who she is,” Amos explains.
“We were like, ‘That sounds a lot like a gamer.’
She really did meet her heroes.”
It now becomes Kamala’s job to reassemble the disbanded Avengers and take him down.
That’s actually Kamala Khan,” Amos says.
For Rosemann, Kamala and Miles, for that matter is about “putting the human in superhuman.”
And there’s far more on the way.
“We’re constantly adding new missions,” Amos specifically notes ofAvengers.
Trailers have also implied the presence of figures like Captain Marvel.
According to Amos, those Easter eggs are very much intentional.
“This game isn’t just one and done,” he says.
“It’s launching and then supported for years to come.”
The same thing could be said for what’s coming next from Marvel Games.
“As the late great Stan Lee said, ‘Stay tuned, True Believers!'”
