X-Play Interviews Marvel’s VP of Games Production TQ Jefferson

<p>TQ Jefferson&comma; the Vice President of Games Production at Marvel&comma; gave some answers to questions about the recent Marvel video games yesterday on the X-Play stage&period;  Hosted by Blair Herter&comma; the interview started off with asking why Marvel saw video games as a good medium to tell their famous comic book stories&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li><strong>What is it about video games that translates as a good medium for comic books&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;Video games offer us an opportunity to tell or re-tell stories in a very new and very immersive way&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s very different from television or film&comma; which are passive experiences&period; For video games&comma; you actually get to <strong>be<&sol;strong> and control the character&comma; allowing a form of role-play that&&num;8217&semi;s new and interesting&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Later on in the video&comma; Blair asked another interesting question about the quality of recent games&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li><strong>Why has there been such a difference in quality between various Marvel titles&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;There are many pressures when creating a game&comma; the two biggest ones in this case were time and familiarity&period; Beenox did a great job making &&num;8216&semi;The Amazing Spider Man&&num;8217&semi; because they&&num;8217&semi;d already had three or four years iterating Spider Man&period; Raven Software&comma; similarly&comma; had a long history of delivering quality games&comma; as well as working with us&period; Again&comma; they had familiarity with the character and with Marvel which transferred into the execution of the game&period; Thor and Iron Man were newer teams that we hadn&&num;8217&semi;t worked with as much&comma; and we had difficulty communicating with them&comma; with brought in the factor of time constraints&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>The full interview video can be found <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;g4tv&period;com&sol;videos&sol;60052&sol;marvel-vp-of-games-production-tq-jefferson&sol;">here<&sol;a> on G4TV&period;com&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;