Faceless Microsoft Exec Axes Marvel MMO

World of Warcraft is probably still the most popula massively multiplayer online game out there today, but there are other entries that certainly deserve your attention as well. While we have already been exposed to titles like City of Heroes and City of Villains, wouldn’t it be awesome if you could actually control a real Marvel superhero (or super-villain, as the case may be)?

Brian Bendis was one of the executive producers of the proposed Marvel MMO, but that game got suddenly killed off by a faceless Microsoft executive. As it stands, the game is half done and without the backing of any company in particular. I wonder if Sony would be interested…

In any case, Bendis sat down with ComicMix to discuss the project and here is what they had to say.

CMix: It’s no secret that you’re an avid gamer. Is there any comic character or title that you’d still like to see in a videogame that hasn’t popped up yet?

BB: Well, you’re talking to one of the executive producers of the ill-fated Marvel MMO that went away. I have my laptop here, and on it I have the “X-Mansion” level fully completed that only I and five other people have access to play. It’s gorgeous and fantastic and no one will ever see it. So I feel bad, because I think that MMO was a phenomenal idea that was extremely well executed and it went away because some guy at Microsoft who we’ll never know pulled the plug on it before it even got underway.

But adding to that, I think that they should take each of these Marvel events and turn them into a videogame franchise. “Civil War,” which will be part of the next Ultimate Alliance, “House of M,” “Secret Wars”…

CMix: “Secret Invasion?”

BB: “Secret Invasion.” Absolutely.

Source: Kotaku

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