Avengers: Battle for Earth (Wii U/Kinect)

[6souls]

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Last year, images and video of a canceled THQ game based on Marvel’s Avengers were leaking out all over the Interwebs. The game seemed to offer cooperative play, and took the form of something like a first-person-adventure game, where gamers took control of Iron Man, the Hulk, Captain America, Hawkeye (maybe), and Thor, and beat the crap out of Skrulls, shapeshifting aliens from the Marvel Universe. Shortly after all that material leaked, we learned that Marvel was looking for a new home for the game.

Now that the Avengers movie has raked in all of the world’s money (because it’s hella good), we’re suddenly bereft of a movie-tie-in game that, if it existed, would’ve sold a kajillion copies along with the movie’s runaway success (good job canceling that one, THQ). Enter Ubisoft, which has just announced Avengers: Battle for Earth, a motion-controlled game planned for the Kinect and the Wii U.

Er, what? Motion-controlled? Really? Why?

A Eurogamer post about the game explains that it’ll be based on the “Secret Invasion” comic crossover from a few years ago, in which the Skrulls (replaced by the Chitauri alien race in the movie, dontchaknow) have infiltrated Earth society and stage a “body-snatchers” type coup.

“We are excited to team up with Marvel Entertainment to bring some of the most iconic comic book characters from the Marvel line-up to life in motion-gaming,” Tony Key, head of Ubisoft US sales and marketing, is quoted as saying. “Fans of the Marvel universe and superhero games are going to love the extensive combinations of characters, motion-controlled moves and competitive gameplay.”

Andreea Enache-Thune from Marvel Games had this to say on the project:

“For the last few years, Marvel has positioned itself to deliver the absolute best in entertainment, be it in film, animation, comics or games. Partnering with Ubisoft is a big part of that ongoing movement. We are confident that Ubisoft’s talent matches Marvel’s own commitment to making the Avengers: Battle for Earth the best in the motion-controlled gaming category.”

No release date has been given yet, but the post notes that it probably won’t be out at least until the Wii U makes its appearance on shelves. We’ll also apparently find out more at E3 in June.

http://www.insidegamingdaily.com/201...-u-and-kinect/
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...arth-announced

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[Vendog]

I feel that superhero overload will be setting in soon.

[Kaisha]

I'm trying to fathom how this can be motion controlled yet come out on Wii U also. The most I can think of is that it'll use the traditional controller, but allow gestural crap/voice-recognition as well to complement the controller on the 360.

I doubt they'll actually want people to use Wii Motion+ on the Wii U for it, otherwise they might as well have a PS3 release using the Move also.

[Insanecyclone]

@ the pics I posted in RIT, an actual THQ guy came into an Avengers thread and posted those in /v/.

[Sonomaa]

too bad the game wont be nearly as cool as those concept and early footage setups when it does finally get crapped out.

[6souls]