Seems the rumors have been true and Digital Arts is in truth engaged on a brand new single participant Black Panther recreation. It’s coming from the writer’s new Cliffhanger Video games studio fashioned by business veterans, together with builders from Center-Earth: Shadow of Mordor studio, Monolith Productions.
The announcement consists of virtually no actual details about the sport—no launch window, gameplay particulars, and even idea artwork. Like a variety of huge funds tasks that get introduced means forward of time lately as firms compete to draw expertise, Black Panther is “nonetheless early in growth with an extended highway forward.”
“We’re devoted to delivering followers a definitive and genuine Black Panther expertise, giving them extra company and management over their narrative than they’ve ever skilled in a story-driven online game,” Kevin Stephens, former Monolith studio head, stated in a press launch. “Wakanda is a wealthy superhero sandbox, and our mission is to develop an epic world for gamers who love Black Panther and wish to discover the world of Wakanda as a lot as we do.”
Information of the Black Panther recreation was first reported final yr by journalist and business insider Jeff Grubb throughout a Large Bomb’s Sport Mess Mornings stream. Grub claimed EA was engaged on a recreation with the purpose of constructing on the success Respawn garnered from its 2019 single-player open-world Star Battle recreation, Jedi: Fallen Order. It’s not but clear if that can simply apply to the ambitions of the Black Panther recreation’s story or open-world-style gameplay as nicely.
Marvel has been pushing a few of its different largest characters into video games as nicely. EA’s Motive studio is engaged on a Iron Man recreation that appears aimed toward interesting to followers of blockbuster story-driven video games as nicely. There was after all Eidos Montreal’s Guardians of the Galaxy and Crystal Dynamics Marvel’s Avengers as nicely. Additionally don’t confuse EA’s new Black Panther mission with the espionage thriller starring Black Panther and Captain America coming from Skydance builders Amy Hennig and Marc Bernardin. As we’ve stated earlier than, there are a ton of Marvel video games within the works now.