If that red brick is on it then it’s got to be great. For us that applies to everything Marvel does, whether it’s comics or video games. And that agreement means it has to be great. You may be like, I don’t know what Black Panther is but it’s a Marvel Studios movie so it’s going to be great and I’m going to go see it.
When you see that red Marvel brick on a game we want it to mean the same thing it does when you see it on a movie poster or on a comic book. It was a shift in attitude at Marvel games - let’s be a leader. So part of it is, do we all have cool jobs? Yes! Are we working on an amazing game that people would die to make? Yes! Oh my gosh, we’d better not mess up! We’d better make this awesome!” “But I feel we, the whole team - us, Marvel games Insomniac, Sony - in making Marvel Spider-Man, we’ve also taken on that great Spider-Man mantra: with great power must come great responsibility. I get to come in and talk about Spider-Man all day. “Well thank you! When I drive in to work each morning I try to take a moment where I think, oh my gosh! I’m still doing it, I’m still at Marvel, I get to work on characters I love, and now I get to work on video games, and it’s a new era, and we’re working with the best partners. He’s not wrong.Įxecutive Creative Director at Marvel in charge of video games - Bill, your job sounds pretty cool.
“Bill can tell a tale…” says Insomniac Games’ Bryan Intihar affectionately when recalling their first conversation. He’s also not backward in coming forward.
It would be shocking if Marvel wasn't looking at the results and considering the video-game possibilities for other superheroes. After the success of the "Spider-Man" game, and with Marvel's characters more popular than ever thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it seems inevitable.įortunately, Marvel retains the video-game rights to all of its characters, which avoids the kinds of difficulties that the films have faced - until the recent Disney-Fox merger, Fox owned the film rights to the X-Men and Fantastic Four, and Sony, which owned the Spider-Man film rights, made a deal with Marvel so the character could debut in the MCU.A 20-year Marvel staffer currently working as Executive Creative Director on Sony’s PS4 exclusive Spider-Man game, Bill Rosemann is such an effusive evangelist for his company and the character you can imagine Stan Lee ringing up him for advice.
Game Informer called the game " a triumph of superheroes and storytelling" and GamesRadar said it's "about as good as superhero gaming gets." The game's first-week sales in the UK were better than any other game released this year its launch numbers in the US are expected soon, and to be stellar. The game has an 87 on review-aggregator site Metacritic. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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