Monday, October 31st 2022
EA and Marvel Entertainment Announce a Multi-Title Collaboration to Make Action Adventure Games
Electronic Arts Inc. today announced it is collaborating with Marvel on a long-term deal to develop at least three new action adventure games that will be available for consoles and PC. Each of these games will be their own original story set in the Marvel universe with the first title in-development being a single player, third person, action-adventure Iron Man game coming out of Motive Studios.
"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," said Laura Miele, COO at EA. "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."
"At Marvel, we strive to find best-in-class teams who can take our characters on heroic journeys in ways they haven't before and collaborating with Electronic Arts will help us achieve that," said Jay Ong, Executive Vice President at Marvel Games. "We pride ourselves on being enthusiastic, creative collaborators with developers so they have the freedom to create something deeply unique and truly remarkable. The team at Motive is getting started on that with their Iron Man video game and we can't wait for players to learn more in the far future."
Developed in collaboration with Marvel, the Iron Man game will feature an original narrative that taps into the rich history of the character, channeling the complexity, charisma, and creative genius of Tony Stark, and enabling players to feel what it's like to truly play as Iron Man. The team is being led by Olivier Proulx, who brings experience working on past Marvel titles like Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, and is joined by a dedicated team of passionate industry veterans including Ian Frazier, Maëlenn Lumineau, and JF Poirier at the studio.
Source:
Electronic Arts
"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," said Laura Miele, COO at EA. "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."
Developed in collaboration with Marvel, the Iron Man game will feature an original narrative that taps into the rich history of the character, channeling the complexity, charisma, and creative genius of Tony Stark, and enabling players to feel what it's like to truly play as Iron Man. The team is being led by Olivier Proulx, who brings experience working on past Marvel titles like Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, and is joined by a dedicated team of passionate industry veterans including Ian Frazier, Maëlenn Lumineau, and JF Poirier at the studio.
29 Comments on EA and Marvel Entertainment Announce a Multi-Title Collaboration to Make Action Adventure Games
www.ea.com/news/all-new-iron-man-video-game
Not this generational so-called "inclusion/representation/discourse" mess!
The developers just need to change the 3D model for the protagonist, edit some textures, use a different map and swap out the soundtrack.
Sure, there's the infrequent quality title but it's not like the audience is demanding quality. The bar is set very low. It basically needs to run at 30fps on current consoles and have some sort of photo mode for selfies.
The sports franchise series are pretty similar (FIFA, NBA, whatever). Just put different jersey graphics on newly traded players, adjust the abilities of the top stars by a few percentage points and stamp a new date on the title.
Besides, CDPR seems to favor homegrown IP anyhow where they have free rein in terms of artistic license.
EA has a long track record of working within the boundaries of what a video game series franchise might require (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, professional sports leagues, etc.).
Besides, CDPR has zero track record making comic book games. EA's team leader has previous Marvel experience.
CDPR is not staffed to take on an external IP. They are still struggling to clean up CP2077 two years after its disastrous launch. The fact that Sony pulled the PS4 title from their online store and issued refunds likely did not go unnoticed by Disney executives. The PS5 and Xbox Series X|S versions were only released this year.
CDPR even relocated a key part of their CP2077 sequel team from Warsaw to Boston to have access to a wider pool of game developers. And let's not forget that CP2077 was at least two years late. It should have launched in 2017/2018 while the current consoles were PS4 and Xbox One and ran on those well.
if EA can make even just one of those three games a single player Marvel game of the same quality I would be interested. not interested in the multiplayer stuff though. i gave up on multiplayer in the playstation 2 days, you simply can't stop hackers, its been this way for decades. best to enjoy single player only i have found.
Well, maybe after they resurrected Viscereal and all the studios they've bought up and destroyed. Maybe after that... But not untill then...
You have a company that continuously shits on its customers/prospective and employees and is a completely evil corpo-greed and it's the punchline for any corpo/ceo greed joke ever.
Yeah, you might have noticed i didn't specify WHICH of the two named here, as it applies to both
Funny how every time a game gets picked up by a core group of players, the screaming about "muh toxicity" worms its way out. Same thing happened with overwatch, the garbage banter players were twisted about was TAME compared to the X360 days. People gotta learn how to use that mute button and just play the game instead of turning every lobby into their personal hugbox.
Take that with sarcasm at 11.
Now why would you diss epic :laugh:
EA is garbage. Disney/Marvel partnering with them is both saddening and a sign of Disney's continued slide in to the depths of low-brow mediocrity.
But for sure, the right to create content for the Marvel IP is something EA has to pay for. It could be an undisclosed up-front fee, it could be a deferred payment. These franchises all make money from licensing deals and that's what this is: a three game title deal.
Undoubtedly Disney is guaranteed a certain amount for the base license fee and will also take a share of the profits. None of these details will be known to the public.