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Marvel/EA Crossover Game Announced

by Karl Castaneda - February 10, 2005, 2:09 pm EST
Total comments: 15 Source: Newsarama

Marvel and EA team up for a super-hero crossover.

In a recent interview with Greg Pak, one of Marvel's writers, the comic scribe revealed that he had been working with Electronic Arts on a super-hero crossover game involving the classic Marvel characters and all-new characters from EA.

Coinciding with the release of the game will be a miniseries called Marvel Nemesis: The Imperfects. More on this story as it develops.

Talkback

Ian SaneFebruary 10, 2005

I question EA's ability to make interesting original characters. These days it takes a lot of creativity to make a superhero people actually care about. All the easy-to-think-of generic super power ideas have long been taken. Considering EA's sheer inability to be creative or original I have a feeling we'll be getting lame ideas like Fishman or Firegirl.

Even ripping off non-Marvel characters wouldn't really work since Marvel themselves own several lesser known characters that have similar powers to other popular characters. It's kind of silly to make a Flash ripoff for example when Marvel already has Quicksilver who though not as popular has basically the same powers.

Marvel vs Capcom was a great idea because Capcom already had a whole bunch of superheroish characters to work with.

Bartman3010February 10, 2005

Lets go! Super Madden!

MaleficentOgreFebruary 10, 2005

Capcom's vs series is holy ground. EA doesn't have the talent to live up to that. I predict flop.

couchmonkeyFebruary 10, 2005

It's not a crossover unless both franchises stand on their own. This is just making an X-Men game and adding a bunch of nobodies to it.

Flames_of_chaosLukasz Balicki, Staff AlumnusFebruary 10, 2005

Well I think the most compelling EA character is either Baseball guy,football guy, soccer guy, hockey guy or lets not forget the cream of the crop character CAR!!

Infernal MonkeyFebruary 10, 2005

Hey, Daytona car was an awesome character in Fighters MegaMix on Saturn. tpg.gif

gerdi3xgpFebruary 10, 2005

hi im a long time reader first time poster and i decided to post just cause i wanted to say i hope marvel loss billions on this game just cause of what they did to NCsoft.face-icon-small-mad.gif

SheckyFebruary 10, 2005

Quote

Originally posted by: Bartman3010
Lets go! Super Madden!


With "Boom!" special move!

Not to mention:
- Talking you to death
- Confusing phrases
- The almighty yellow pen

Midmatch he can call either Joe Montana or Jerry Rice to come to his aid.

(Sorry, that all flooded in when I read that one line post)

Spak-SpangFebruary 11, 2005

It may not be a fighting game. I suspect EA is more looking at Kingdom Hearts and the success of blending Disney with original Square characters.

Either way I really don't know what to think of this game. This may be a game I am glad if we don't get it on our system.

joshnickersonFebruary 11, 2005

I remember hearing about this over a year ago and I recently thought about it again a couple of weeks ago, wondering what ever happened to that deal.

Flames_of_chaosLukasz Balicki, Staff AlumnusFebruary 11, 2005

Maybe EA needed time to make a super hero that reflects their company SUPER GENERIC MAN!

nickmitchFebruary 11, 2005

Let's not forget Captain Crap Maker, with the amazing power to turn anything in to crap.

WuTangTurtleFebruary 12, 2005

Oh c'mon EA can be creative.

Why they could make Super Conveyor Belt Man!

davidlow122February 14, 2005

EA have heaps of characters, much better then marvel vs xmen that game suxed. have you ever heard of 'goldeneye' or "Lord of the rings" Goldeneye could kick wolverine's ass!!! And SSXXmen would be gooder then Need for flash speed. Much better then Nintendo's lame "mario" or "samus" or "Link". Who ever hearsd of them anyway? Goldeneye is much famouser then Mario, it is a better selling game on xbox (which has sold 100 million consoles in the wor'ld and is more powerfulll then a super computer and gamecube has only sold 4 million and only has 5 good games and xbox has over 2000)

So stop saying bad EA when their much betterer then Nintendo with their tiku tiku tiku! games like mario and resident evil 4 and Banjo Ha Ha Microsoft got rare now and Ghoulies is 20 times best then mario. Ninetndo should stick with GBA but PSP will killit it's already sold more then GBA and kiccs adds nut chim goob.


playing moron>

KDR_11kFebruary 15, 2005

Hm, SSX3... Does that mean we'll get to play as Churchill beating up some spandex-clad superhero while shouting "bite my shiny metal ass" at the other player?

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