XCOM: New Marvel Title Won’t Feature MCU Characters But Customisable Ones Instead

Emma Regan — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 10:15:05 +0000

The New Marvel XCOM game won’t be featuring your favourite MCU characters but will exist in the world

It has been announced by journalist Jeff Grubb during a Giant Bomb Livestream that the developers Firaxis will not include any MCU characters in the Marvel XCOM project but will allow players to create their own instead.

He also states the title for the unannounced project could be released at Gamescom later this month.

Marvel XCOM Game

So the question is if there won’t be any Marvel characters involved, how is it still classified as a Marvel title?

Grubb confirmed that while it’s not going to have any existing MCU characters, the XCOM project will be set in the wider universe and will be focusing on the supernatural elements in the Marvel universe.

Grubb goes onto say that he doesn’t think that means characters necessarily like Blade, but there will be vampires in it, and he doesn’t know if it means mystical characters either, but players can expect that type with the enemies they end up fighting.

Yet the most exciting aspect is that players will create their very own superheroes and potentially even customizable teams, similar to how players can customise them in their own teams like in other XCOM titles.

Source: XCOM Enemy Unkown

Furthermore, publishers 2K stated it would be announcing a new franchise later this month and according to Grubb, this new Marvel XCOM game doesn’t take place in any linear franchises so it is considered a new property in that regard, thus being an original, despite taking place in a well-established universe.

I do think that the character that you’re playing will be a customisable superhero, or at least the team might be customisable, so it’s still going to have XCOM in that way, but that’s why it’s not going to be taking place in any existing lineage of franchises. So I guess they might consider this a new property. – Jeff Grubb.

2K and Firaxis have multiple unannounced projects lined up, and is planning to announce a new franchise later this month, but could this be what they were hinting at? It sure is a possibility.

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2K Plans To Announce An Exciting New Franchise Later This Month

Emma Regan — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 10:23:08 +0000

2K Games confirmed they will be releasing details of their new franchise that will be released at the end of the current fiscal year.

2K Games confirmed the news at its parent company Take Two‘s 2022 Q1 earnings results call that took place on Monday.

The new franchise can be expected to release before March 31 2022.

2K’s New Franchise

Sadly there aren’t many details to be revealed as of yet but Two Take’s president, Karl Slatoff, confirmed: “2K will unveil details of another exciting new franchise planned for launch during this fiscal year”.

There’s a lot of speculation going around that this new game could be developed by Firaxis, the developers of Civilisation and XCOM, who have a history of publishing their games under 2K Games. It is said the developer has several games to announce later this year, one reportedly being a new Marvel game, however, this has yet to be officially confirmed.

Source: 2K

The new franchise could be announced at Gamescom 2021, which has been confirmed to be all online again this year and will take place between August 25-27.

Take-Two also said it had delayed the launch of its two immersive core titles to later in the current fiscal year than originally planned. The company intended to release 21 games this year, including a new franchise from Borderlands developer Gearbox.

What do you think the new franchise will entail? Let’s hope the company isn’t forced to push it back even further.