Marvel showdown rages on 360, PS3

[yankeefan06]

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6175742.html?tag=latestnews;title;4
Marvel showdown rages on 360, PS3
EA Chicago bringing original fighting franchise featuring superheroes and villains to next-gen consoles in 2008.
By Tom Magrino, GameSpot
Posted Jul 27, 2007 1:25 pm ET

Despite diversifying its offerings over the years, the heart of Comic-Con International: San Diego remains comics and the superheroes (and villains) that define them. In honor of this year's Comic-Con (which wraps up this weekend), EA announced today it would be bringing an as-yet-unnamed original fighting game featuring the Marvel license to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2008.

No stranger to the fighting genre, Marvel's superheroes have been featured in several 2D and 3D fighting games, including the Marvel vs. Capcom series and EA's own Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects. Never ones to shy away from a dustup, EA's Chicago studio will develop Marvel's latest fighting game. EA Chicago's most recent credits include the hip-hop rhythmic brawler Def Jam: Icon and the sweat-glistened boxing sim Fight Night Round 3.

Details on the game were not specified, but EA Chicago's effervescent general manager and vice president Kudo Tsunoda did say that the game would feature "a great all-star lineup of Marvel Super Heroes and Super Villains with incredible powers that are authentic to the fiction, huge environments, and a living world that keeps the gameplay fresh; every battle will be unique, every battle will be like a first edition."

For more from Comic-Con 2007, check out GameSpot's ongoing coverage.

[curryking1]

Sooooo... what happens to Marvel vs. Capcom, if anything?

[Hisham]

Nothing curryking.

Capcom doesn't have the proper licensing from Marvel to make those types of games anymore.

Perhaps in the distant future, but as for now, we aren't gonna see a Capcom made Marvel fighting game.

Which sucks because the last EA one sucked balls.

And... General Gaming?

[D3adcell]

Because Marvel Nemesis was such a good game.........:shifty:

Why do they keep producing this crap? Give the marvel license back to capcom already. Hell Activision had it for one game, MUA and it was great. I can't imagine what EA will do with it again.

[curryking1]

Thanks Hisham, I wasn't aware Capcom had already lost the license, so I thought now they would stop. That sucks :(

I started playing the first M vs C on PS1 recently lol. Great game :)

[yankeefan06]

here are some details about the new Marvel Games from EA
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3161610
First Details on EA Chicago Marvel Fighter
EA's Kudo Tsunoda talks up his Marvel fighter at Comic-Con.
By Mike Nelson, 07/28/2007
On Friday, a group of game industry members took the stage at a San Diego Comic-Con panel to discuss the process of making video games with Marvel licenses. Along with representatives for Iron Man, Spider-Man: Friend or Foe, and the upcoming MMO from Cryptic, EA Chicago's Kudo Tsunoda showed up to chat a bit about his just-announced Marvel fighting game. Here's what we were able to pick up on the game.

"None of the games that have come out so far really have paid off what an epic superhero battle is all about," explained Tsunoda. "Either the characters themselves don't fight as the superheroes that they're portraying, or you're not getting the epic scale of the battles that take place. You know, most of the videogames that have come out take existing fighting mechanics, throw a couple of superheroes in it and call it a superhero fighting game. Marvel [Nemesis]: Rise of the Imperfects, you know, [from] EA -- the company I work for -- it was pretty much that same way."

"At EA Chicago, we're known for our innovative fighting series, be it Fight Night or Def Jam: Icon... EA is just tired of making that same old superhero fighting game," he continued. "We figured we want to take a crack at delivering on the promise of what an epic superhero videogame is all about... we want to play off the abilities of the characters where each of them feel like a totally different play experience, and then open up the world a bit so it can play off of those character abilities and get an epic superhero battle going on, as opposed to a couple of guys in costumes running around."

He later explained what this "epic scale" is meant to showcase -- the game will take place in open areas such as cities that include several blocks. And since each superhero will be playing to their specific traits, it sounds like the developers will be in for some serious balancing work.

The look of the game is going to stay away from photo-realism, and try to capture the "Marvel style," which isn't necessarily cel-shaded, and not a dark and edgy look -- just something Tsunoda described as a "hyper level of detail." We'll have to wait for the screenshots before we know what that means. For the number of characters, Tsunoda said it's "more than two, and less than 50." The last hint we picked up is that the game will likely incorporate downloadable content.

With a release scheduled for next year, it's not surprising that EA's not ready to reveal everything about the game just yet; we expect to hear a lot more in the next couple months.

[Hisham]

Thanks Hisham, I wasn't aware Capcom had already lost the license, so I thought now they would stop. That sucks :(

I started playing the first M vs C on PS1 recently lol. Great game :)

BOO, play the Dreamcast version. Arcade perfection haha. :-p