No Avengers Games Without the “Right Partner,” Marvel Says

<p>We&&num;8217&semi;ve seen the Avengers assemble on the big screen&comma; but it looks like it&&num;8217&semi;ll be another long while until we see them battle it out on our game consoles&period; Talking with IGN&comma; Marvel&&num;8217&semi;s game division head now says an Avengers video-game will likely be a long-awaited gem that&&num;8217&semi;ll only &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;come when we have the right partner&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>TQ Jefferson elaborated that a game tie-in to the Avengers&comma; presumably the cinematic versions included&comma; simply must do justice to its fans if such a project ever goes down&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Avengers game will come when we have the right partner&comma; that has the right vision&comma; that has the time to develop a strong&comma; competitive triple-A title and wants to do it right&period; It has to hit our three pillars&colon; Fun and engaging gameplay&comma; true to the characters&comma; compelling story&period; Without hitting those notes&comma; we shouldn’t do it&period; Gamers&comma; they know better&period; They’re not going to flock to something that’s sub-par&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>It&&num;8217&semi;s on that note that Jefferson seems to think the studio&&num;8217&semi;s reluctance to make any game adaptation is due to Marvel’s distinctly &&num;8220&semi;new attitude&&num;8221&semi; in how it finds partners and builds its games&period; Commenting on the ill-fated history of the movie licensed game&comma; he admits most examples were &&num;8220&semi;popping out all the time and most of them sucked&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Marvel is certainly no innocent when it comes to these patterns and when asked whether the poorly received Thor and Captain America movie games had any influence on this&comma; Jefferson admitted to such&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Absolutely&comma; absolutely&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period; &&num;8220&semi;We got a bloody nose on both of those&period;” He further claims that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;we would rather not have a game than to just sign something to have something out on time&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Until then&comma; Avengers fans of all ages don&&num;8217&semi;t have long to wait to play incarnations of Earth&&num;8217&semi;s mightiest heroes in some form&comma; albeit it the toy kind&period; Earlier this week&comma; Marvel officially unveiled Disney Infinity 2&period;0&colon; Marvel Super Heroes <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;disney-infinity-will-showing-marvel-chaacters-later-month&sol;">following weeks of its rumored release<&sol;a> featuring The Avengers&comma; the Guardians of the Galaxy&comma; Spider-Man&comma; and more in the trailer down below&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;W1P3b4YU8so<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;ign&period;com&sol;articles&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;01&sol;avengers-game-will-come-when-marvel-finds-the-right-developer">IGN<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;