Miracle has experimented with a number of different genres and game types over the years. From open-world action-adventure, turn-based strategy games with an occult twist, to co-op live-service games and even a few VR titles, Marvel offers a variety of video game experiences for a wide variety. audience.
But looking back over the past decade or two of Marvel's video game output, the vast majority of experiences tend to be third-person action games with a Teen ESRB rating or lower. While these games may deal with some heavier themes and may have plenty of dramatic moments, overall they try to stay lighthearted. While this is obviously a natural fit for the Marvel brand, it might be nice if Marvel experimented with some darker, more mature themes and features every once in a while. For example, there is one type of horror game that could be a perfect fit for Marvel this time next year.
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Marvel Zombies could pave the way for a new type of Marvel video game
The Marvel Zombies comic offers great inspiration
In November 2005, the run The ultimate Fantastic Four the comic called “Crossover” reached its peak. In this run, Reed Richards is contacted by an alternate universe version of himself and transitions into that universe. Ultimately, this universe is home to zombified versions of various Marvel heroes and villains, acting as a backdoor pilot. Marvel Zombies a run that was to begin just a month later.
Released between December 2005 and April 2007, Marvel Zombies was originally a five-part limited series written by Robert Kirman (b Walking Dead fame) and illustrated by Sean Phillips. The series follows an alternate Earth-2149 that emerged The ultimate Fantastic Fourwhere a virus has turned Earth's mightiest heroes and villains into flesh-eating zombies. Although, unlike most zombie fiction, Marvel Zombies“meat eaters retain most of their cognitive abilities and superpowers. The horror comes from what these heroes and villains would do to satisfy their hunger.
Since that 2005-2007 miniseries Marvel Zombies spawned a number of sequels and spinoffs and essentially became an entire Marvel comic book series in its own right. The latest entry in the series was Marvel Zombies: Dawn of Decaya four-issue run that began in September and is scheduled to end in December.
The upcoming Marvel Zombies Disney+ series could lay the groundwork for the game
Released by Marvel in 2021 What if…? animated show on Disney+. One of the episodes of the anthology show, What if…zombies?took direct inspiration from Marvel Zombies comic series, although in this continuity the Avengers don't catch the virus from an alien, but from Janet van Dyne, who contracted something in the Quantum Realm.
When Bruce Banner is sent back to Earth to warn the world of Thanos' impending arrival, he is ambushed by a horde of zombies, including Doctor Strange and Iron Man. The rest of the episode follows survivors such as Wasp, Spider-Man, Hulk, Black Panther and Vision as they try to find a cure for the zombie virus. A four-part sequel to this story is due out in October 2025 under the title Marvel Zombies.
What a Marvel Zombies video game could look like
Coming Marvel Zombies series gives Marvel a rare opportunity to create a more mature game and experiment with a genre it has never dabbled in before. AND Left 4 Deada zombie style game could work really well Marvel Zombies adaptation that allows players to embark on cooperative zombie-slaying missions as a group of iconic heroes or villains in a number of familiar Marvel locations.
Every few levels, players could get a chance to face off against a zombified version of a popular Marvel character. And much like the show and the comic, it would be an adaptation, the core appeal and Marvel Zombies the video game would have players fight heroes they would normally never encounter, such as Captain America or Spider-Man. The Marvel Zombies the theme would also allow for a bit more gore than Marvel games are usually used to.
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