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Microsoft Enters MMOG Deal with Marvel Comics

Posted by Zonk on from the more-toys! dept.

Chris Gondek writes "Microsoft announced it will enter an exclusive deal with Marvel for to develop a Marvel based MMOG for the Xbox 360." From the article: "Although the games will not be released until 2008, according to news agency Reuters, Marvel worldwide president of Consumer Media Tim Rothwell has indicated that it will be the only such MMO deal the company will make - ensuring that no Marvel MMO can appear on the PlayStation 3 or Revolution." So we're going to have a DC supers MMOG, a Marvel supers MMOG, and CoH. May you live in interesting times, indeed.

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  1. May be troll, but I have to say it anyway... by Wampus+Aurelius · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "With this next generation of gaming, Marvel fans will finally have the ability to create choices with their favorite Super Heroes, villains and creatures in unbelievable detail, all with the power of Marvel's incredible vision and the Xbox platform."

    As opposed to what they can do now in COH?

  2. Console MMO games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To be honest, I don't really have much faith in a console based MMO game. Having played 'the best' of the genre I can say that the keyboard is essential to play these games; I can't even imagine how impossible it would be to find a group using voice communication while dozens of 12 year olds call eachother gay in general chat.

  3. I sure hope that... by thesandtiger · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... Marvel and DC don't do what The Matrix Online and Star Wars: Galaxies did, and create sub-par games while hoping that the fans will be too excited to play in their universes to notice how lousy the game actually is.

    And, it'll be great to have more MMO's that are not elf-based fantasy stuff. I enjoy WoW, but sometimes a girl just wants to beat the crap out of things that aren't "Generic Fantasy Creature #180zillion."

    --
    Since I can't tell them apart, I treat all ACs as the same person.
  4. Re:Is the DC game... by Meagermanx · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wish they would stop with the petty deals and just let them come out with the games for whatever console they want. I don't know why consumers are putting up with this.
    Oh, yeah, because KOTOR and Halo are too great to wait for... *rolls eyes*