EA’s upcoming Black Panther recreation appears like it will likely be an open world title, primarily based on a not too long ago posted job itemizing.
Proper now, we all know just about nothing about EA and Cliffhanger Video games’ Black Panther recreation. We all know that it exists, that Cliffhanger Video games is a brand new crew led by Kevin Stephens, the previous studio head at Center-earth: Shadow of Mordor developer Monolith Productions, and that it has nothing to do with the Captain America and Black Panther recreation set within the 40s’. However as noticed by VGC, a latest job itemizing for a principal sandbox designer at Cliffhanger Video games seems to be suggesting that it will likely be an open world recreation.
“Reporting to the Design Supervisor, the Sr. Technical Designer Sandbox can be instrumental in designing and populating encounters, programs, and gameplay inside a dynamic and evolving open world,” reads the itemizing’s description of the job position. It goes on to notice {that a} profitable candidates tasks would come with needing to “design, prototype, and implement AI programs, encounters, and gameplay mechanics that contribute to a wealthy, sandbox surroundings,” and that they might “work carefully with the AI engineering crew to create subtle AI behaviours that improve the open-world expertise, from city crowds to wildlife ecosystems.”
This is not precisely that shocking, the open world format is a reasonably frequent one for large, AAA video games in any case. It additionally does not inform us all that a lot about how the sport will really play, although you may presume it will likely be considerably action-oriented given Black Panther’s talents.
Final month, Skydance New Media lastly gave a correct look at its Marvel recreation, Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, which options each Captain America and an earlier incarnation of Black Panther. No gameplay has been proven off but, although it did arrange a few of the recreation’s story, and you’ll see its impressive-if-uncanny facial seize work too.