Electronic Arts has officially announced a new long-term "multi-title collaboration" with the comic juggernaut Marvel to develop at least three brand new action adventure games for both console and PC. The exact platforms have not been confirmed yet.
These games will come with their "own original story" set within the Marvel universe. The first game, as revealed in September, is a single player, third-person Iron Man game by Motive Studios.
EA's COO Laura Miele mentioned how EA has been long-time fans of Marvel and was looking forward to welcoming it to the EA family:
“We have been long-time fans of Marvel and their impressive leadership, so this is a remarkable moment for our developers as well as our players and fans. We look forward to welcoming Marvel into the EA family of creators and know this collaboration will produce exceptional experiences for our players. We can’t wait to see players' reactions when they suit up as Iron Man and do the extraordinary things this Super Hero is known for.”
The new Iron Man project is led by Olivier Proulx, the same individual who worked as the senior producer on the Square Enix title, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy - available as a cloud release on Nintendo Switch.
What are your thoughts about this announcement? Comment below.
[source news.ea.com]
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Does this mean we can now finally get a Frog Man game?
I doubt that having the senior producer of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy will mean a whole lot for this Iron Man game beyond financial considerations during production. Creative talent is what I'm looking for and I don't trust EA to cultivate that.
Oooffff. Is EA just going to do everything Disney soon?
Just one word: UGH!
Not too excited yet, however they managed to pull off a great single player Star Wars game in Fallen Order (albeit from a different EA owned studio), so I won't write it off either. Hoping it's good, as I'd love an Iron Man game.
In related news I just finished up Spider-Man: Miles Morales on PS5 tonight, and it was a great time.
Easy to write off EA because they generally suck but they did put out Jedi Fallen Order and that was great, no micro transactions or shoehorned multiplayer fluff; just a solid single player adventure game. Maybe these games could be alright.
@Kermit1 Ribbit and rip it!
EA is a sucky company, doesn’t mean all there games suck, so, hopefully, they turn out to be good.
None of them is comming to switch most likely
New My Sims games, please.
She's a 10, but she makes fun of single-player games only to announce developing one in partnership with Marvel.
Oh, no. No more good marvel games then.
I'm cautious as always with EA. They're just not a good company business-wise, and there's some real issues with their personnel.
That and I'm still bitter they haven't put Road Rash II onto Genesis NSO.
Well… that is a shame. EA games always feel a certain way, and not in a good way.
It is hard to explain, as Game uses animations, but EA games just feel like I am playing QuickTime events. Even Fallen Order it feels restricted when other games don’t.
They have a stiffness to them.
Ahhh, EA.
Let's hope they don't kill these Marvel franchises and do a good job.
Unfortunately you can't spell death without EA.
At this point, I just want to be able to play Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1 & 2 on modern consoles... again. They got re-releases on PS4 & Xbox One that were somehow buggier and less functional than the originals, but those were also taken down, and only released digitally. (Same for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron).
Disney obviously never learnt their lesson with Star Wars.
Maybe if their stuff is received semi-decently I might check it out when it ends up on Gamepass but in the meantime that's a giant meh. I just hope the deal doesn't have anything in it to get in the way of more of the Sony Spider-Man games.
I object to this union of Marvel and EA, and I will not forever hold my peace!
@Knightrider1 EA games are like reality TV, you gotta be drunk to appreciate them
EA, Disney and Marvel. Well, luckily I don't care for any of them.
Brilliant - EA finally found a use for that Anthem tech demo it had Bioware make.
Damn, that sucks.
Officially writing out "Electronic Arts" in full?
It's been a while since I saw that.
I wonder if "EA" is seen as holding too many of the wrong connotations.
Just when things were going great with EA losing the FIFA license, this happens. What a bummer.
So no good Marvel games for a few years.
Optimistic for this given Battlefront II, Jedi Fallen Order and Squadrons. I'd be surprised if these make it to Switch though.
So to get the whole MCU storyline you now have to watch every film in the series, every one of it's shows on Disney+ and every Marvel game EA releases...
So not only will the movies and tv shows be soulless but also the games too
Anytime you see this, it means that it's never going to appear on the Switch.
From a marketing/business standpoint EA has to be one of the worse run companies ngl
Motive is a decent studio. If they repurpose some assests and systems from Anthem, this could be cool.
Meh. I don't care about the oversaturated comic book games, and sure don't care about EA, and even if I did I'm sure they won't make this for the Switch because they'd rather make more polygons than money.
@HeroponRiki This doesn’t mean EA only Marvel games, just that they’re making a few. There’s still Insomniac Spider Man 2 and Wolverine and who knows what else from Sony alone
Motive is a good studio. I’m sure the Iron Man game will be good.
Star Wars Squadrons was pretty decent from what I heard and the dead space remake is coming along nicely.
At least the word "exclusive" isn't in there.
@larryisaman
I hated the controls for Fallen Order. They felt like Ice levels with almost tank like movement
I read the title of this article and immediately heard a toilet flush!
Oh well, let's hope EA can do something good with it.
not sure how I feel about this yet.
No EA doesn’t make good games.
@larryisaman Oh thank god. I thought this was like the Star Wars deal they had.
While I understand some of the criticisms, I don't get all the EA hate. I think they've been a fairly alright publisher/developer over the decades. Lots of classics and even some more recent decents like all the new Star Wars games (Battlefront 1 & 2, Jedi: Fallen Order, Squadrons). I think an Iron Man (or any other of Marvel's stable of cool heroes suited for a new AAA gaming experience i.e. X-Men? Silver Surfer? Black Panther? Dr. Strange? Captain America?) game made by Motive or DICE could be awesome... probably only so on other more powerful platforms unfortunately.
I do wish EA would get back to more wacky/niche/experimental arcade sports games though like they did with EA Big titles back in the day (NBA Street, Def Jam etc.). Also wish they'd support Nintendo platforms more and better.
Also also EA, bring back Fight Night and find a way to get the Mass Effect Legendary Edition collection on Switch please & thanks.
... Wun can only hope.
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