'The Avengers Project' means one thing: Marvel. Video. Games!
A video game based on Marvel's Avengers super-team is finally happening. More than one, in fact.
Details are very slim, so bear with us. Marvel's Twitter feed announced "The Avengers Project" with a cinematic trailer. The video's YouTube description confirms that this is a "multi-year, multi-game partnership" with publisher Square Enix.
It sounds like the first game from this partnership -- and presumably the one teased in the trailer -- is in the hands of Square Enix developer Crystal Dynamics. If that name is familiar, it's because this is the studio behind the modern face of the Tomb Raider series.
Also participating is Deus Ex: Mankind Divided developer Eidos Montreal. The Canada-based studio also worked with Crystal Dynamics on its past two Lara Croft games, Tomb Raider (2013) and Rise of the Tomb Raider (2015).
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There's no word on which Avengers lineup the initial game will focus on, just that it will feature an original story. That said, there are allusions in the teaser to the Marvel Cinematic Universe specifically, so expect those films to form the narrative backbone of whatever Square's studios are working on.
The teaser is somewhat reminiscent of the disaster nightmare -- which featured a defeated Avengers team -- that Scarlet Witch gave to Iron Man in the 2015 film Avengers: Age of Ultron. The tweet includes the hashtag #reassemble... suggesting that, at some point, the Avengers will disassemble.
Unfortunately, it sounds like we're not going to be hearing much more about this for quite some time. The teaser's YouTube description notes that more details will be available -- on Crystal Dynamics' project "and other games" -- in 2018.
But wait! 2018 is notably the year that Avengers: Infinity War is pegged for release. If the first Avengers Project game picks up somewhere between Infinity War and the movie that follows it -- originally titled Infinity War: Part Two -- we can at least speculate, based on the hashtag, that some dark times are ahead for our favorite Marvel super heroes on film.
Adam Rosenberg is a Senior Games Reporter for Mashable, where he plays all the games. Every single one. From AAA blockbusters to indie darlings to mobile favorites and browser-based oddities, he consumes as much as he can, whenever he can.Adam brings more than a decade of experience working in the space to the Mashable Games team. He previously headed up all games coverage at Digital Trends, and prior to that was a long-time, full-time freelancer, writing for a diverse lineup of outlets that includes Rolling Stone, MTV, G4, Joystiq, IGN, Official Xbox Magazine, EGM, 1UP, UGO and others.Born and raised in the beautiful suburbs of New York, Adam has spent his life in and around the city. He's a New York University graduate with a double major in Journalism and Cinema Studios. He's also a certified audio engineer. Currently, Adam resides in Crown Heights with his dog and his partner's two cats. He's a lover of fine food, adorable animals, video games, all things geeky and shiny gadgets.
