Job listings have outed details about EA’s upcoming Marvel projects, with both Black Panther and Iron Man set to be open world adventure games.
It’s difficult to keep up with the amount of Marvel games in development at the moment, between the likes of Marvel Rivals and Marvel 1943: Rise Of Hydra, especially as so little information has been released about any of them.
For example, developer Cliffhanger Games, which employs many of the team leads behind Middle-Earth: Shadow Of Mordor, is currently working on a Black Panther title for EA. The project was previously described as offering ‘a definitive and authentic Black Panther experience’ inside the ‘rich super hero sandbox’ of Wakanda.
While that description seemed to imply it would be open world, a new job advert has now confirmed this to be the case.
A job listing seeks a principal sandbox designer who will be ‘instrumental in designing and populating encounters, systems, and gameplay within a dynamic and evolving open world’.
‘Drawing upon a deep understanding of technical design principles and a passion for creating immersive sandbox experiences, this role demands close collaboration with design teams, AI engineering, and technical art departments to bring our game world to life,’ reads the listing.
This isn’t the only open world Marvel project in the works at EA, with a separate job listing confirming EA Motive’s upcoming Iron Man game will also take place in an open environment.
As noted in a job listing for a senior technical artist, EA Motive is seeking someone ‘to help oversee the rendering related aspects of an open world action adventure AAA title’ – with Iron Man featured in the advert’s title.
Little else is known about the project, other than it’s being made in Unreal Engine 5 and Ryan North, who is the author behind Marvel’s The Unbeatable Squirrel run, is on the writing team. Development is being led by Olivier Proulx and Ian Frazier, with the former being a producer on Square Enix’s acclaimed Guardians Of The Galaxy game.
Along with Iron Man, EA Motive is also working on the next Battlefield, in collaboration with various other studios. Following this shift, the developer made clear that Iron Man was still an ‘important priority’ for the studio.
‘The team made excellent progress this year, hitting a major internal milestone and laying a robust foundation for the journey ahead,’ a statement from the studio read. ‘Iron Man is an important priority for Motive, and I’m very proud of the work we’ve accomplished so far.’
There’s no official release date for Black Panther or Iron Man yet, but it’s possible that we could hear more at Summer Game Fest in June.
The reassurance for Iron Man was no doubt deemed necessary because EA recently announced it was moving away from licensed games, in order to concentrate on live service titles. That means it’s current wave of Marvel and Star Wars games, is likely to be its last.
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