Meet the Marvel Universe MMO Writer and Some Details

Marvel has blown the lid off the secrecy surrounding the on again off again Marvel Universe MMO. Late last week they had an event in San Francisco where they introduced the writer for the game. Brian Michael Bendis is the head writer of the Marvel MM and previously wrote Secret Invasion, House of M, Ultimate Spider-Man.

At the event he said:

The game will be a grand, epic tour, a reimagining of some of the biggest events in Marvel history.

Could it be Galactus attacks right from the get go? It could be as it was announced that you will play as actual Marvel Characters which is huge. The big villain is said to be Doctor Doom so I wonder if he will be pulling the strings or perhaps trying to take over the world...will the Beyonder show up?

Characters are said to include: Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Hulk also mentioned Squirrel Girl and Nova.

What it sounds like is that it will be a squad-based game instead of a wide open world like Champions Online or DC Universe Online because if not then there would be a thousand Thors running around and it would just be strange.

Other notes:

The game will be free to play, and will be one of the largest free to play AAA mass multiplayer game built from the ground up to be that way.

The Marvel Universe MMO is going to launch with more characters than in any game to date. - Characters both big and small.

They’ve only announced PC but did not 100% rule out other platforms at a later date.

It will be a core gamer MMO - they have a kid’s MMO in Super Hero Squad online.

They’ve created an opportunity for you to play the great moments of the Marvel Universe. They’ve adapted the great stories to gameplay in a way that makes it true to the originals while still allowing you to experience and learn what the characters learned and experienced.

They’re pulling from all source material. The comics are clearly THE source material, but they’re also taking from the films, the animated series...but there will be a lot of 616 elements.

The players get to create their own continuity in this. Bendis jokes that this is the ultimate solution to message board griping, but jokes aside, he thinks it’s an amazing way for fans to experience and interact with the Marvel Universe.

So like I said, it sounds like you’ll either come from an alternate history and so there could be multiple Spider-Man, multiple Capt America. I think that it might be more like squad-based or it might be a number of servers and so there are only a certain number of people per or even separate Earths on each server.

That could make some great gameplay later in server vs. server or planet-wide wars.

No word about playing villains, but if history has taught us anything, there are at least two factions in almost every MMO...so it’s still a possibility.