On July 10, Electronic Arts announced that a Black Panther game in the Marvel Universe is currently in development. At that time there were very few details, but the publication eXpute found interesting information among the Cliffhanger Games job listing, which may shed some light on some aspects of the future game.
What is known
The first thing that was noticed in the Senior Game Designer job posting was that the game will be in the open world. Given that most of the latest superhero games are open world, Black Panther will continue this trend.
Also, in the vacancy of a senior software engineer for tools and systems, it is indicated that the game is being developed on a game engine Unreal Engine 5.
And now the most interesting. Gameplay Engineer job posting mentions that it should be an action RPG with unique dialogue system. If you think about previous Marvel games like Marvel’s Spider-Man or Guardians of the Galaxy, they weren’t even close to role-playing, and the players couldn’t influence the world or the characters with their actions in any way. Therefore (theoretically) Black Panther should have its own characteristics.
Here it is necessary to clarify one important detail – the game is being developed by Cliffhanger Games, headed by Kevin Stephens, who once worked at Monolith Studios. This studio is known for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and Middle-earth: Shadow of War. These games are also RPGs and they had the Nemesis system, which worked like this: when you face an enemy and he defeats you, he can rank up and become stronger. And if you defeat him, you can influence his fate by killing him or pardoning him. If you do not kill him, then the enemy may remember this act of mercy and even become your ally in the future.
Marvel Games and the latest studio EA Cliffhanger Games are proud to announce a new, original, third-person, single-player Black Panther in development! Read more right now: pic.twitter.com/7aQEdYo7Qg
– Marvel Games (@MarvelGames) July 10, 2023 of the year
So, most likely, Kevin decided to take the concept from Middle-earth and remake it for Black Panther.
For those who are not in the know
Now Electronic Arts is also developing another game in the Marvel universe, but about Iron Man. No specific details have been revealed about the game yet, but it is known that it will be a story-driven action game.
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