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EA Vs. Marvel Fighting Games Announced
ADD Boy writes "Reuters reports that Electronic Arts and Marvel have come together to 'develop a series of fighting games pitting newly developed EA characters against Marvel superheroes like Spider-Man.'" This cross-media deal also sees Marvel "acting as licensing agent for the new [EA-created] characters and publishing comic books based on them", and "the deal includes more than 100 of Marvel's superhero characters, such as Spider-Man and the X-Men." However, the deal does not include the Hulk or Punisher characters, who are licensed to Vivendi and THQ respectively.
I'm not normally one to balk at a fighting game unless the premise is horribly bad, but half the fun of the Capcom v. Marvel series of games was the idea of your favorite Capcom characters taking on your favorite comic book characters. It's definitely going to be a hard sell for EA to push these new characters against Marvel's well loved character set.
And where is a decent DC v. Marvel game when you need it?
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He was already the star of an awesome, awesome videogame. You know, the one where you smash things... and then smash some more?
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This isn't very specific, although it'll be interesting to see how this is implemented. And who knows, maybe make a movie out of it eventually? Maybe that's why the Hulk was excluded, after all Hulk tanked while X-men and Spider-Man were both popular movies.
Come to think of it, maybe i would like to kick Tigers ass.
I want 2D games back.
That sounds like a bad enough premise for me.
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I was hoping it would be like Marvel vs NFL or some such.
That would be a lot of fun.
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Seriously, without using licensed characters (Spiderman being the most notable) what character are they going to use? EA is most notable for its line of sports games and team based PC games (Battlefield 1942 of course). This is not a Capcom or Nintendo company which has a very broad cast of characters to choose from.
Not only that, look more carefully at the title.
EA Vs. Marvel Fighting Games Announced
Games, impling more than one. What are they going to do for an EA Vs. Marvel 2 game?
"Now fight using the Battlefield Vietnam grunt and the generals from C&C:Generals Zero Hour!"
Marvel vs. the WWE.
Marvel vs. the Sportscenter Team
Marvel vs. the Survivor champions
Marvel vs. Sprite, 7Up and Sierra Mist.
Marvel vs. Carvel Ice Cream Man!
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EA have its own developed characters? Are they going to use characters from SSX or something?
John Madden vs. Captain Britain
Tiger Woods vs. Galactus, Devourer of Worlds
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. vs. the Transformers (More than meets the eye)
Sims vs. uhh, Micronauts?
Harry Potter vs. Conan the Barbarian
Iolo the Bard vs. Silver Surfer
Spider-man vs. John Madden Wolverine vs. Tiger Woods Captain America vs. that guy in Medal of Honor Jean Grey vs. James Bond Iceman vs. (insert SSX character) The Hulk vs. car from Need for Speed any other suggestions?
... that they will make this a well-balanced fast-paced 2-d fighter instead of a 3-d one (Street Fighter EX3 anyone?). Personally, I don't think EA will pull it off, unless they pursue their normal strategy of buying over companies that do know how to make games, and then just distributing it :P
Having my Sims battle Spiderman.
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I want to see that!
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I can beat the ever-loving crap out of JP from SSX.
It's a longshot, but lets not forget that Square and EA are partners, even if it is just a publishing thing, but it COULD be possible to see some Square characters there. Very unlikely, but possible.
Will I be able to fight as my Sim?
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How can EA possibly think they can make characters that could rival Marvel's? The only reason Marvel Vs. Capcom worked was because Capcom's characters already had a following. A fighting game with just Marvel characters would be good. Adding EA characters will simply dilute the game.
How much do you want to bet that EA's characters will be cookie-cutter fighting game fare that are made "extreme" to appeal to kids? I'm guessing there will be a karate guy who's looking for strong opponents, the karate guys rival, a big wrestler/grappler type guy, an army guy, a funky black guy, a token woman, and any number of other Street Fighter ripoff characters. I'm sure EA's focus groups will add enough attitude to turn them into instant Poochie's.
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Shaq-Fu, Budokan, Techno Clash, umm... Def Jam Vendetta? Does Knockout Kings count?
Good luck EA. John Madden himself as a playable character wouldn't save this game.
Marvel vs. Lord of the Rings
I would indeed love to see wolverine take on the Patriots in a game of keep away. It could be a third person mini-game with player one controlling wolverine on the field with his back turned torwards the screen while player 2 controls the team of large horney football players like a swarm...
Unless they add DC to it, this game is going to suck.
It's so sad that Marvel sold out to EA for this.
Of course, aside from MK:DA, what good American fighting games have been released recently?
Include Chuck Yeager and I'll consider buying it.
Right now, the closet thing we'd be able to get would be a (very ambitious) Freedom Force mod. Heck, for all I know, there's already one out there...
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I wonder if we can count on EA to do their usual 'best' to keep their current fan base happy. That being, will they include shitty licensed music, and will they include some kind of retarded sports-type character? My guess is probably. :/
Sure marvel has some cool fighting characters, but what does EA have? Sports games like nhl or nfl, nba, etc, etc... Are we going to see marvel characters fight hockey players or something?
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EA does have the Bond license. James Bond and Wolverine going at it doesn't sound sucky.
This is the stupidest game concept I have ever heard. Electronic Arts, a company which has NO FRANCHISED CHARACTERS OF THEIR OWN WHATSOEVER (as they only do sports and shitty licensed games) will attempt to do the same thing as Capcom did, only (duh) without Capcom. This is wrong on so many levels. Since when does EA do fighting games?? And why would Capcom let them plagiarize on of their former concepts ??! This is most obviously fake news.
The key formula IMHO in any fighting game is the pace. Whether you have a million moves or 10 moves, pace makes a big difference.
I have yet to see a 3D game pump polygons faster than the marvel vs capcom series. EA better know what they are doing.
This new game better be along the lines of Marvel vs. Capcom 3. It's gotta be of that quality for my money to swing that direction.
"That's right. This winter, EA BIG will release the most x-treme fighting game. Re-imagined from the tough inner city streets, this hip-hop themed brawler ......"
Dear God, Cyclops in a do-rag? Spider-Man is baggy jeans? *shudder*
Are we in a alternate universe or something?
Capcom has made A LOT of fighting game characters they practically invented the genere, they actually made marvel characters such good fighters They dont even look like they come from comics.
EA has ZERO good fighting games (maybe def jam vendetta but thats a wrestling game) and now they want to make a fighting game with marvel characters against their own??? What? who they are going to fight exactly? Tony hawk? Tiger? Madden? LOTR? C&C? the Simpsons? I have news for you MARVEL idea guys, those are either real people or licenses from other propietors EA doesnt have AAA characters of their own
EA and Marvel may be a good combination (A marvel based battlefield 1942 or C&C anyone?) but a fighting game???? if you are a stocks buyer I would keep my money as far as possible from that "combo" as possible
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