EA and Marvel Entertainment Announce a Multi-Title Collaboration to Make Action Adventure Games

[TheLostSwede]

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.

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[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Id love to play an Iron man game. I know there was one back in the early 2k's but i did not get a chance to play it. I look forward to this and a HUGE bonus would be if RDJ reprises his role in the game. That would be an insta buy for me.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Id love to play an Iron man game. I know there was one back in the early 2k's but i did not get a chance to play it. I look forward to this and a HUGE bonus would be if RDJ reprises his role in the game. That would be an insta buy for me.

Then this might make you happy.

Marvel Entertainment and Motive Studio team up for an all-new Iron Man video game

Marvel Entertainment and Motive Studio team up for an all-new Iron Man video game, now in development.

www.ea.com

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Then this might make you happy.

Marvel Entertainment and Motive Studio team up for an all-new Iron Man video game

Marvel Entertainment and Motive Studio team up for an all-new Iron Man video game, now in development.

www.ea.com

Isnt that what this is about? lol

 

[Gmr_Chick]

I just pray EA doesn't fuck the Marvel license like they did with Star Wars i.e. abandon it once it's no longer profitable. Battlefront II is my main PC game and in dire need of a fixing and purging of all the hackers and toxics that will never get done now. The mentioned problems have only gotten worse since the game was abandoned.

 

[GunShot]

Iron Man has been done, Spider-Man galore, Avengers' titles are like underwear... just give me a genuine "comic book historian" raw Black Panther mature title!

Not this generational so-called "inclusion/representation/discourse" mess!

 

[mama]

Other than Guardians of the Galaxy and Spiderman perhaps these types of games have been a disappointment.

 

[cvaldes]

Other than Guardians of the Galaxy and Spiderman perhaps these types of games have been a disappointment.

I'm not sure how much it really matters in the current video game marketplace. No matter how mediocre a comic book-based game title is, it'll sell like hotcakes the first couple of weeks anyhow to diehard comic book fans. And six months later they'll buy the next comic book-based title whether it's great or mediocre.

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.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I would care if Marvel had partnered with CDPR, but not EA. Sorry Marvel/Disney. Epic fail for you..

 

[cvaldes]

I would care if Marvel had partnered with CDPR, but not EA. Sorry Marvel/Disney. Epic fail for you..

I doubt if CDPR's pockets are deep enough for whatever Disney is charging for the Marvel rights. Their disastrous Cyberpunk 2077 launch sent CDPR's stock price into a massive downward spiral and their market cap has been in the dumps since then.

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.).

 

[lexluthermiester]

I doubt if CDPR's pockets are deep enough for whatever Disney is charging for the Marvel rights. Their disastrous Cyberpunk 2077 launch sent CDPR's stock price into a massive downward spiral and their market cap has been in the dumps since then.

Besides, CDPR seems to favor homegrown IP anyhow.

You missed the point. And you painted a bleak picture. It's nowhere near that bad. Never was.

 

[cvaldes]

You missed the point. And you painted a bleak picture. It's nowhere near that bad. Never was.

The point is money. That's what Disney wants. And CDPR doesn't want to give them that money. Probably because they don't have it.

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.

 

[GunShot]

I would care if Marvel had partnered with CDPR, but not EA. Sorry Marvel/Disney. Epic fail for you..

Yeah, but no. Disney would more than likely want to see confirmed results from its licensed IPs within 3 to 4-years from its initial development start date, not in 8-years+ and its developer is just ~1/3 complete and still asking for more time and resources post-launch.

 

[Ownedtbh]

seems like they ran out of ideas

 

[Space Lynx]

I just pray EA doesn't fuck the Marvel license like they did with Star Wars i.e. abandon it once it's no longer profitable. Battlefront II is my main PC game and in dire need of a fixing and purging of all the hackers and toxics that will never get done now. The mentioned problems have only gotten worse since the game was abandoned.

as someone who really enjoys single player only games, I think EA has done a fantastic jobs with star wars jedi fallen order game. i played it start to finish and really enjoyed it overall. looking forward to the next one as 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.

 

[Kohl Baas]

I'm not a comic fan, but as a gamer, I will give no money to the "two-letter-satan" whatsoever. Not a single dime. Ever.

Well, maybe after they resurrected Viscereal and all the studios they've bought up and destroyed. Maybe after that... But not untill then...

 

[Space Lynx]

I'm not a comic fan, but as a gamer, I will give no money to the "two-letter-satan" whatsoever. Not a single dime. Ever.

Well, maybe after they resurrected Viscereal and all the studios they've bought up and destroyed. Maybe after that... But not untill then...

if you are going to have that mindset, the only games open to you will be small indie devs. this is capitalism bro, it sucks. all these big companies have a bit of dirt in their past depending how much you want to look behind the curtains.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

I just pray EA doesn't fuck the Marvel license like they did with Star Wars i.e. abandon it once it's no longer profitable. Battlefront II is my main PC game and in dire need of a fixing and purging of all the hackers and toxics that will never get done now. The mentioned problems have only gotten worse since the game was abandoned.

*cringe* EA has a bad habit of setting a unrealistic deadline for developers.

if you are going to have that mindset, the only games open to you will be small indie devs. this is capitalism bro, it sucks. all these big companies have a bit of dirt in their past depending how much you want to look behind the curtains.

so not true. EA isnt the only publisher.

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.

Likely co-op will bed a choice.

 

[L'Eliminateur]

I guess the adage "it takes one to know one" applies here:
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

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

As if marvel games couldnt get any grayer, blander, and more heavily monetized and thoroughly ruined, Disney apparently learns nothing from star wars and gives EA the keys. I look forward to marvel fans complaining that their game they paid $150 for, again having learned nothing, is being shut down due to low player count and always online DRM.

I just pray EA doesn't fuck the Marvel license like they did with Star Wars i.e. abandon it once it's no longer profitable.

What's that definition of insanity again? Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results? How many times does EA have to burn you before you figure it out?

Battlefront II is my main PC game and in dire need of a fixing and purging of all the hackers and toxics that will never get done now. The mentioned problems have only gotten worse since the game was abandoned.

Not muh toxics! Anything but the toxics!

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.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Great.

Take that with sarcasm at 11.

 

[ThrashZone]

I would care if Marvel had partnered with CDPR, but not EA. Sorry Marvel/Disney. Epic fail for you..

Hi,
Now why would you diss epic

 

[RegaeRevaeb]

Meantime, my expectations have dropped in general. I'm possibly happy any time a game isn't essentially pay to win, or doesn't require some online connection to server services that can/will be shuttered by publishers.

 

[lexluthermiester]

The point is money. That's what Disney wants. And CDPR doesn't want to give them that money. Probably because they don't have it.

Yup, you missed the point. EA isn't paying Disney/Marvel. It is a partnership. Money is NOT being exchanged up-front.

if you are going to have that mindset, the only games open to you will be small indie devs. this is capitalism bro, it sucks.

That's kinda true, but not always.

Hi,
Now why would you diss epic

That was unintentional. Epic has actually gotten a lot better lately, but I still greatly prefer GOG over anything else.

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.

 

[cvaldes]

Yup, you missed the point. EA isn't paying Disney/Marvel. It is a partnership. Money is NOT being exchanged up-front.

Unfortunately I did not get a copy of their contract for review.

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.