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Captain America: Super Soldier Details from Sega

by Karl Castaneda - October 5, 2010, 1:37 pm EDT
Total comments: 3 Source: (Press Release)

A new Captain America game based on the movie.

Sega announced today that they'll be releasing a game to tie in with the upcoming Captain America film from Paramount Pictures, in conjunction with Next Level Games.

Captain America: Super Soldier will have a script penned by Christos Gage. Set within the same world as the movie, Marvels Sentinel of Liberty will face off against the Red Skull, the dastardly scientist Arnim Zola, and the evil terrorist organization Hydra. The game will include a combat system with special use of Captain America's shield.

It was previously reported that High Voltage Software is working on a Captain America game to tie in with the movie. This other title was known as Captain America: The First Avenger; it is not yet known whether Super Soldier is the same game.

Scheduled to be released in 2011, Captain America: Super Soldier is headed to the Wii and Nintendo DS, as well as other platforms.

Marvel's Iconic Super Hero Captain America Will Star in Original WWII Video Game Adventure Captain America: Super Soldier

Penned by Marvel Scribe Christos Gage, Captain America: Super Soldier Lets Players Become Captain America, the Ultimate Super Soldier, Facing the Red Skull and His Forces

SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON – October 5, 2010 – SEGA® of America, Inc and SEGA®, Europe Ltd. today announced they will bring Marvel Entertainment’s famed Super Hero franchise Captain America™ to video game systems in an original WWII adventure, Captain America: Super Soldier. The title is scheduled for release in 2011 on the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, PSP® (PlayStation® Portable) system, Wii™ and Nintendo DS™.

"Videogame players the world over can now become Marvel’s iconic Super Hero Captain America," said Gary Knight, Senior Vice President of Marketing at SEGA Europe and SEGA America. "Captain America:Super Soldier puts players in the boots of the ultimate Super-Soldier, wielding Captain America’s legendary shield. Working closely with Marvel ensures we’re delivering the calibre product that gamers and comic fans deserve and it’s a partnership we’re proud of here at SEGA."

Players will become Captain America as he faces the Red Skull and his army in an epic third- person action adventure set in the darkest days of World War II. Wielding Captain America’s legendary shield, gamers will engage in free-flowing combat and acrobatic platforming to infiltrate Hydra's mysterious castle and battle the infamous Iron Cross, the forces of Hydra, and a host of nefarious enemies serving the Red Skull. As the First Avenger himself, players must defeat the evil scientist Arnim Zola and his wartime experiments, combining powerful melee combos and shield attacks to devastating effect.

Captain America: Super Soldier combines a highly athletic combat system with fluid platforming and a highly tuned suite of shield attacks, as Cap explores a massive castle turned military installation. His shield can be employed in numerous ways: taking out multiple enemies at once, deflecting incoming fire back at enemies, solving puzzles, and scaling walls. Players will be able to launch shield-first into the fray with the superior force of the world’s first Super-Soldier at their fingertips—and they’ll need every bit of that strength to overcome a castle that’s both an acrobatic playground for the Captain’s physical prowess and a house of mystery with enemies and danger at every turn.

The original story for Captain America: Super Soldier is being penned by noted comic, film, and TV writer Christos Gage. The primary writer for the Marvel’s Avengers: The Initiative series of comics, Gage has written numerous books for major Marvel characters, including Siege: Captain America, Iron Man, X-Men,Spider-Man, Civil War: House of M, and Union Jack.

Gage wrote his original story for Captain America: Super Soldier so that the setting exists within the same world as the upcoming movie of the same name, but he infused the game with immersive twists designed to enhance gameplay with all-new cinematic action sequences.

The preeminent Super Hero introduced during the WWII era, Captain America was created by the legendary team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby in 1941. The iconic hero actually predates the Marvel name by 20 years, first being issued by the company’s predecessor, Timely Publications (later known as Atlas Comics). Over 200 million Captain America issues have been sold in 75 countries and the shield-wielding hero is a key member of the Avengers alongside comic book icons The Hulk™, Iron Man™, and Thor™ starting in The Avengers #4 in 1964.

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Talkback

Oh good because all of Sega's comic book games have turned out well.

Dirk TemporoOctober 06, 2010

I think we should be more worried about the quality of movie-to-videogame adaptations than anything else.

Quote from: Dirk

I think we should be more worried about the quality of movie-to-videogame adaptations than anything else.

I think we should highlight Sega's terrible entries...

Most of Warner Bros.'s games-based-on-movies have turned out alright (I can cite Legend of the Guardians and Where the Wild Things Are off the top of my head), and outside of the terrible Spider-Man 3, most Spider-Man movie games have turned out well. I personally adored X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and the recent Transformers movie games were decent, at least more decent than Iron Man 2.

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