mildly interesting

[Architecht]

Massively Marvel Online Game 9/19/02

 

Vivendi Universal Publishing has signed a 10-year licensing deal with comic book maker Marvel Enterprises granting Vivendi the right to develop and publish massively multiplayer online games based on Marvel superheroes. The first such game is meant to release in 2005.

[fantastic_four]

I've been wanting a game like this since I started playing exclusively online multiplayer games like Ultima Online, Quake, WarCraft, etc. The problem is that EVERYBODY will want to be Spider-Man or Wolverine, but if hundreds or thousands of players are on a server at once, most of us will have to settle for dumb characters like Rocket Racer, the Grizzly, the Blue Beetle, etc.

 

It'll be interesting to see how they give hundreds of people at once something to do...

[Architecht]

Yah, it's hard to imagine how they'd actually pull it off. I'd think they'd do something more like the X-men universe, only you don't get to be THE superheros, you just get to be a mutant, and pick a variety of powers, etc. etc.

 

The perhaps, you have to choose whether to be a good guy, a bad guy, or a human.

 

I dunno. It's definitely tough. I think that in Star Wars Galaxies (the PIG (persistent interactive game) that uses the Star Wars License) they have just skipped the main characters. So you just don't ever get to be Darth Vader, etc.. But you can be a jedi (well some people can).

 

One way or another, it ought to be interesting.

 

Arch

[murph0]

I'm still playing Subspace and Diablo 2 online

This game would be way sweet.

 

Brian

[CosmicBob]

I wonder if I can pick a hero with a blue suit with a big yellow "S" on the chest and a red cape, with awesome superpowers.

 

And a superpowerful white dog in a red cap as a sidekick.

 

What do you think?

[Speedy-D]

Where the Marvel MMO Game is at?

[Mephisto]

Yeah it's been over a decade. Arch is a liar.

[slym2none]

Threadsurrection!

 

Lazarus Award nominee right here, folks.

 

 

 

 

-slym

[jaybuck43]

Actually it's right here https://marvelheroes.com

 

[Designer Toast]

The trailer for the game is pretty awesome.

[Jonesin4Comics]

I'm still waiting for 2005 :shrug:

[MagnusX]

 

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