Wonder Woman Game is "Years Away From Release" As Warner Bros. Gaming Division Struggles
Wonder Woman Game is "Years Away From Release" As Warner Bros. Gaming Division Struggles
A new report has said that Warner Bros. gaming division is struggling to find new success and has rebooted its Wonder Woman game.
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If anyone cares, I wrote a piece addressing this as well. It's a classic story of a harvard executive not understanding video games, not understanding the industry, and failing at every opportunity. Jason Schreier was the one with the original scoop. Jason's article is really meaty and worth the read.
Wonder woman is, in my opinion, an odd choice for a video game. I think it could be really good, and her rope would translate well to video game mechanics, but it doesn't feel like Wonder Womans time to shine right now
Thanks for the write up! I had no idea this is why Suicide Squad was such a letdown.
Wonder woman is, in my opinion, an odd choice for a video game. I think it could be really good, and her rope would translate well to video game mechanics, but it doesn't feel like Wonder Womans time to shine right now
Id argue that I felt the same about Batman not being translatable to a game during the 2000s. Video games based on comics were absolutely awful. Superman 64 was a nightmare, and Batman games were beat-em-ups or platformers.
But really smart creatives made the Arkham series work. So I'm optimistic that in the hands of strong visionaries, it's absolutely possible.
Now, do I think WB has the capacity to make a good Wonder Woman game? Haha nope. Not after what they've shown in the last few years.
A WW game with the same sort of vibe as the latest Indiana Jones might actually rock, now that I think of it. Speaking of Batman, Arkane and the right property in the right hands… that Great Circle game came outta nowhere as far as I was concerned.
You didn't think Machine Games could make a great game about a character who hates Nazis?
🤣 I mean, point taken. I guess I just had too many prejudices built up around the idea of the license being used properly.
Their imagination exceeded mine by a wide margin.
I'm imagining an LA noir style section involving the lasso of truth (?). And i haven't seen the movies, but watched reviews, and there seems there might need enough upgrade paths to ramp up the combat elements. Maybe she gets with Batman to upgrade her suit?
Hell, even a tomb raider style origin story might work, if they don't skimp on the writing team.
I think making it a modern style Tomb Raider, mixed with some mechanics of the new God of War games would be best imo.
Like maybe you start out on Themyscira and you go through some training that the other Amazons go through as like a tutorial, and then the rest of the game has you going to secret temples and ruins spread around the world. An upgrade system could work seamlessly too; maybe sprinkle shrines to the gods throughout the maps that give you points so you can add "favors" or something that makes you stronger.
So it's kind of an origin story showing how Diana becomes Wonder Woman, and how she has all those powers that other Amazons don't.
but it doesn't feel like Wonder Womans time to shine right now
It could be if they made a good game.
But... the invisible plane! That's perfect video game material!