After dropping their unique rights to Star Wars, it appears like EA needs to dip their toes in one other enormous IP. We’ve identified for some time that EA Motive shall be engaged on an Iron Man recreation, but it surely appears like this EA/Marvel team-up goes to final somewhat longer.
In response to Bloomberg, EA has truly entered into an settlement with Marvel the place they are going to develop a complete of three video games based mostly on Marvel IP—Iron Man being the firstgame. EA COO Laura Miele had this to say concerning the deal:
“We now have an intentional, deliberate technique to have a balanced portfolio… There shall be Marvel followers who don’t play different EA video games.”
Admittedly, for all of Marvel’s success within the field workplace, they haven’t been capable of translate the identical form of recognition with regards to video games. It was the hope that the Marvel IP would make Sq. Enix’s Avengers recreation an enormous hit, but it surely managed to bomb upon launch. If it’s any comfort, the Guardians of the Galaxy recreation did obtain numerous nice buzz from gamers.
It’s probably not clear what sort of system will make a Marvel recreation succeed, however some are hoping that they concentrate on some narrative-driven, third-person platformers. Personally, I feel they need to financial institution on the hero shooter style like Overwatch or Valorant the place gamers can take turns taking part in heroes and villains in groups with one widespread goal. At the very least, that’s my pitch.
No launch date has been set for EA’s Iron Man recreation.
