Screenshots from the character creation menus of a scrapped Marvel MMO have appeared online following its cancellation last week.
Designer Ramiro Galan shared the screenshots (below) on his Artstation portfolio and revealed gameplay elements as well as the game's Into the Spider-Verse inspiration. "Emphasis was on rich and vibrant colours with stylistic tones that pay homage to Spider-Man Into the Spiderverse," Galan said in the post.
The screenshots also show how players could fully customise their character's look, choose between four factions - the X-Men, Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D, or Fantastic Four - and also pick their type of super power, such as electricity manipulation.
Other hero creation options seems to be gender selection, body shape, face style (which included make-up options), and costumes with differing stats. One option seems to point to there being preset heroes, and store-bought elements on top of the custimozation menus.
The cancelled game seemingly leaned heavily into a comic book aesthetic, with various text boxes and speech bubbles seemingly appearing around the character throughout the creation process, while the final scene places them on a comic book cover stamped with "Issue #1".
The Marvel MMO was scrapped last week after being announced just six months earlier. Coming from Daybreak Studios, the co-publisher of DC Universe Online, the game was being led by City of Heroes designer Jack Emmert. It was cancelled by parent company Enad Global 7, after a "re-evaluation of the development risk profile, size of investment, and the long-term product portfolio strategy for the group."
The 500 million Swedish krona investment (around $50 million) will instead be put into "multiple, smaller projects" including continued support for its other games like The Lord of the Rings Online and DC Universe Online alongside "new game opportunities" based on its own IPs.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally remembers to tweet @thelastdinsdale. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.
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Designer Ramiro Galan shared the screenshots (below) on his Artstation portfolio and revealed gameplay elements as well as the game's Into the Spider-Verse inspiration. "Emphasis was on rich and vibrant colours with stylistic tones that pay homage to Spider-Man Into the Spiderverse," Galan said in the post.
The screenshots also show how players could fully customise their character's look, choose between four factions - the X-Men, Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D, or Fantastic Four - and also pick their type of super power, such as electricity manipulation.
Other hero creation options seems to be gender selection, body shape, face style (which included make-up options), and costumes with differing stats. One option seems to point to there being preset heroes, and store-bought elements on top of the custimozation menus.
The cancelled game seemingly leaned heavily into a comic book aesthetic, with various text boxes and speech bubbles seemingly appearing around the character throughout the creation process, while the final scene places them on a comic book cover stamped with "Issue #1".
The Marvel MMO was scrapped last week after being announced just six months earlier. Coming from Daybreak Studios, the co-publisher of DC Universe Online, the game was being led by City of Heroes designer Jack Emmert. It was cancelled by parent company Enad Global 7, after a "re-evaluation of the development risk profile, size of investment, and the long-term product portfolio strategy for the group."
The 500 million Swedish krona investment (around $50 million) will instead be put into "multiple, smaller projects" including continued support for its other games like The Lord of the Rings Online and DC Universe Online alongside "new game opportunities" based on its own IPs.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally remembers to tweet @thelastdinsdale. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.
Continue reading...