“Immersive, third-person”
Arkane Lyon, the studio behind Dishonored and Deathloop, is working with Marvel on a third-person Blade game, but it looks like we won’t be able to play it for a while.
“In Marvel’s Blade, Eric Brooks is the legendary Daywalker, half-man, half-vampire torn between the warm society of the living and the rushing power of the undead,” according to the official description. “From Bethesda and Arkane Lyon, the studio that brought you Dishonored and Deathloop, Marvel’s Blade is a mature, single-player, third-person game set in the heart of Paris, now in development in collaboration with Marvel Games.”
The announcement was made at The Game Awards, and Arkane’s Dinga Bakaba took the stage to speak briefly about the game, calling it an “immersive, third-person” title, implying that it will build on Arkane’s immersive sim lineage with some new twists. Bakaba also said, “sit back, let us cook,” which I interpret to mean that we won’t see much more of Blade for a while.
Blade joins a slew of other upcoming Marvel games in the works, including Marvel’s Wolverine from Spider-Man studio Insomniac, a World War II game starring Captain America and Black Panther from Uncharted veteran Amy Hennig, and a Black Panther title and an Iron Man game from EA. Even though details on many of these games are scarce at the moment, it appears that Marvel will continue to insist on having its name prominently displayed on every video game it licenses.