In 2012, Disney and Marvel contacted Avalanche Studios—the group behind Simply Trigger—and started working with them on an Iron Man sport that might by no means see the sunshine of day.
The information of this never-released Iron Man sport got here from a MinnMax interview with Avalanche Studios co-founder Christofer Sundberg. The studio is principally identified for its widespread open-world franchise, Simply Trigger. These video games are usually large, crammed with plenty of explosions, motion, and flying round in jets and different unusual autos, to not point out protagonist Rico Rodriguez’s potential to carry out BASE jumps and different wild, death-defying feats. On paper, a sport starring Iron Man does seem to be an ideal match for the studio. However in line with Sundberg, who left Avalanche in 2020 to type his personal studio, there have been issues with how briskly Disney wished the sport made.
Sundberg instructed MinnMax’s Ben Hanson that it “would’ve damaged the studio fully” if that they had employed all the mandatory folks wanted to complete the sport within the brief window Disney wished. “We’d have needed to rent 70-80 folks to the group that I’d have had a accountability to discover a new undertaking for,” mentioned Sundberg.
Based on Sundberg, it was a “robust one” to cease engaged on and he was dissatisfied that the practically two years of exhausting work the group put into the undertaking “went down the bathroom” as soon as the sport was canned.
Through the interview, Sundberg didn’t share too many particulars about what sort of sport it might have been, although he did point out a give attention to melee fight much like the favored Batman Arkham video games. He did additionally verify that the sport would have let the participant fly round “wherever” similar to Iron Man within the movies. He additionally instructed Hanson that he would nonetheless like to see the sport completed in the future by his former group.
“So many nice folks concerned on each side of the sport,” he mentioned. “It will’ve been nice.”
Whereas it’s a disgrace this sport by no means noticed the sunshine of day, we aren’t determined for Marvel-themed video video games in 2022. There are such a lot of coming, together with various positively actual video games based mostly on Wolverine, Spider-Man, and the Midnight Suns, and much more rumored video games, like a Black Panther title from EA. Nonetheless, a Simply Trigger-like Iron Man sport may have been enjoyable.
