This offers a “fun” experience, but largely wastes the potential of pairing a Marvel character with modern AAA videogame storytelling. Modernizing pulp genre stories, as seen in MCU films and other works, often involves a self-aware, half satirical tone, a lot of jokes, and sometimes unearned shifts into character drama. Hennig herself has expressed her love for pulp adventure, and her involvement in the first three Uncharted games suggests Marvel’s new game might have a similar tone.

Sentry & Legion Offer Skydance Powerful, Complex Marvel Characters Skydance would be wise to avoid backpedaling into pulp and selecting a character that lends themselves to the gravitas and drama that modern cinematic action games are capable of. Later works from the studio, like The Last Of Us, moved beyond pulp entirely, and offered grittier, post-apocalyptic stories with a deeper focus on humanity and its flaws. Naughty Dog took Uncharted beyond its roots as a Tomb Raider-style experience, rooted in pulp adventure traditions, to deliver genuine character development and extremely human moments among its characters. Related: Why Marvel's New Game (Probably) Won't Be Open-World Like Spider-Man Both are examples of characters whose origins are in pulp “super-science” concepts, and their histories in Marvel comics are extensive, but a AAA, cinematic videogame offers a chance to focus on less oversaturated characters with more dramatic personal stories.

Ant Man remains present in film as part of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, and the Fantastic Four have had three recent film adaptations as well.

The official press release from Marvel notes, “ Skydance New Media has assembled an accomplished crew of developers with decades of AAA experience in action and adventure gaming, as well as a diverse team of creative consultants from the worlds of film, television, and comics.” Based on Hennig’s background, and the development team’s description, gamers can reasonably expect a big-budget, cinematic action game, but the Marvel heroes who could benefit most from this treatment may not be the most likely ones to receive it.Įarly rumors suggest that Skydance is adapting Ant Man or Fantastic Four as their videogame, but these are not the best choices among Marvel’s rich history. Gamers have good reason to look forward to the title, as Skydance’s games division is headed by Amy Hennig, whose work as a creative director at Naughty Dog included several of the critically acclaimed Uncharted games. A mixture of excitement and speculation has sprung up since the announcement of a new, AAA videogame project from Skydance New Media, based on a Marvel Comics property, but there are some Marvel characters more deserving of this kind of game adaptation than others.

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