The comparison between that well-received Spider-Man game and Robert Downey Jr\u2019s first Iron Man movie from 2008 \u2013 which famously birthed the Marvel Cinematic Universe, paving the way for more than a decade of interconnected storytelling across multiple movies per year and now Disney+ series like Loki<\/a> as well \u2013 was a tantalising suggestion, which set many a gamer\u2019s imagination ablaze with visions of a similarly sprawling slate of interlinked Marvel games.<\/p>\n In the years since his Tweet, we have indeed seen several more Rosemann-approved Marvel games on consoles \u2013 Insomniac followed up its first Spidey game with 2020\u2019s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, while Square Enix has overseen games based on Marvel\u2019s Avengers (which recently dropped a big Black Panther DLC<\/a>) and the Guardians of the Galaxy<\/a>. Plus, Team Ninja released Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 on Nintendo Switch in 2019.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Rosemann has also been shepherding ambitious mobile games like the soon-to-launch title Marvel Future Revolution<\/a> \u2013 developed by a South Korean company called Netmarble, which previously created Marvel Future Fight, Marvel Future Revolution is an open-world experience for iPhone and Android users that will bring together heroes and villains from various different corners of the Marvel multiverse, meshing multiple realities into a whole new world crammed with characters.<\/p>\n Just like Rosemann promised in his Tweet, it does feel like we\u2019re living through a great era for Marvel-loving gamers, but there is something of a snag in that MCU comparison \u2013 it seems like each of these game developers is working on totally unique projects, as opposed to singing from one big hymn sheet of interconnected stories like their MCU counterparts in film and TV.<\/p>\n Recently, RadioTimes.com<\/a> jumped on a Zoom call with Rosemann, and several developers from Netmarble, to talk about Marvel Future Revolution ahead of its launch on 25th August. We couldn\u2019t resist the opportunity to ask Rosemann about his MCU comparison from 2018, and whether he sees all these Marvel games as being narratively connected in any way.<\/p>\n Rosemann replied: \u201cWell, I\u2019ll just say this\u2026 part of the success of the modern-day Marvel Games \u2013 whether it is mobile, VR or console \u2013 is we offer our collaborators freedom. We don\u2019t say, \u2018You all have to create a game that takes place between certain comics\u2019, or between films, or even be worried about what another collaborator is doing.<\/p>\n \u201cWe give them the ultimate freedom. So that when Netmarble says, \u2018Oh, we want to fuse all the worlds\u2019, we don\u2019t want to say, \u2018Oh, well, you can\u2019t, because in this game over here, that\u2019s not what the reality is\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cSo we give them ultimate freedom to have their own Marvel reality. But as we\u2019ve seen, through the era of the Spider-Verse, the idea of the multiverse, [is that] every reality\u2026 every universe\u2026 exists. And they all have meaning. But they\u2019re all separate. And that gives them, and the player, ultimate freedom to tell their story.\u201d<\/p>\n The games aren\u2019t connected explicitly on a story level, then, but the existence of the Marvel multiverse implies that Insomniac\u2019s Spidey, Square Enix\u2019s Avengers\/Guardians and Netmarble\u2019s sizeable slate of heroes do hypothetically all exist under the same multi-dimensional umbrella. But it remains to be seen if they\u2019ll ever stage an MCU-like crossover.<\/p>\n That being said, savvy fans will often spot behind-the-scenes crossovers and connections between the games. Voice talent, for one thing, is regularly shared between companies: Yuri Lowenthal voiced Peter Parker in Insomniac\u2019s Spider-Man games as well as Team Ninja\u2019s Ultimate Alliance 3, for example, while Laura Bailey plays Black Widow across multiple projects including Square Enix\u2019s Avengers game and Netmarble\u2019s Marvel Future Revolution.<\/p>\n Rosemann tells us that Marvel does have a hand in this, although they don\u2019t force any particular talent on its partner companies: \u201cWhenever we work with our partners, and we talk about voices, we give them lists, and say, \u2018Hey, here\u2019s people who have previously done the character. Maybe you want to work with them, maybe not.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cBut when you do have that connective tissue of, \u2018Oh, Yuri! It\u2019s Yuri as Spider-Man!\u2019 As a player, there\u2019s a familiarity. And the actor is very good at what they do. So it\u2019s a bit of both \u2013 everything feels like, \u2018Oh, this is Marvel.\u2019 It\u2019s the right voice. It\u2019s connected in a way. Okay, cool.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, you know, we like to keep it all in the family. It\u2019s like working with Netmarble \u2013 we worked with them in the past [on Marvel Future Fight], and it was great. Let\u2019s keep it going. So it\u2019s really just this kind of Marvel Games family that\u2019s between them, us and the player.\u201d<\/p>\n In-game outfits also present opportunities for meta crossover moments \u2013 outfits inspired by popular comic-book stories have been par for the course in Marvel games for years (there are loads of them in Marvel Future Revolution, too), and you\u2019re also starting to see movie skins appearing in games.<\/p>\n Insomniac\u2019s Spider-Man PS4 game impressively included outfits from the Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland film franchises, for example. (Of course, rumours remain rife that those actors might cross paths in a movie at some point, with fans excitedly waiting to see who or what appears in the first Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/a> trailer \u2013 but their suits showed up in a game first!)<\/p>\n Much like the Spider-Man and Avengers games that have come before, you can expect to see MCU skins in Marvel Future Revolution. Netmarble has a whole range of MCU cosmetics ready to rock in the game, including an Avengers Endgame Iron Spider suit for ol\u2019 web-head.<\/p>\n These crossovers between the different divisions of Marvel \u2013 comics, games and the MCU \u2013 come about because of openness between teams behind the scenes. Rosemann says: \u201cWhat\u2019s really cool about this modern era of Marvel, and of Marvel Games, is that we\u2019re all divisions, and we\u2019re all working closely together.\u201d<\/p> Rosemann continued: \u201cWe\u2019re all sharing, you know \u2013 we share with publishing, \u2018Hey, here\u2019s what we have coming out in this game a year from now\u2019. And in return, they\u2019re showing me stuff from comics coming out a year from now. And what that allows us to do is, if we think something is cool, we can put it in the game, and something can hit in the game and in the MCU, or in the game and Marvel publishing, all at the same time.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd so, then, as a Marvel fan, you\u2019re like, this is so cool. It\u2019s all connected. Everyone\u2019s working together. These things just aren\u2019t floating around and not talking to each other \u2013 we\u2019re all behind the scenes, sharing content.\u201d<\/p>\n Does this mean we\u2019ll see more familiar outfits showing up in Marvel Future Revolution? Rosemann says: \u201cSo, yes, there will be times when there will be events or uniforms that are from different [divisions] \u2013 could be from the comics, could be from the MCU. But we always want to share behind the scenes work together, so that we can offer all of this to the players, no matter what your favourite iteration of a character is.\u201d<\/p>\n The inter-division crossovers go both ways, as well: fans will remember that Insomniac\u2019s version of Spider-Man showed up in the multiverse-hopping Spider-Geddon comic books in 2018, not long after his video game debut, and you could also see his Advanced Suit in the closing credits for the 2018 animated movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Marvel Cinematic Universe recently opened up the multiverse during the Loki season finale<\/a>, and those parallel dimension possibilities are now being explored in the What If<\/a> animated series. Is it kismet, coincidence or deliberate corporate synergy that Marvel Future Revolution is due to drop in a few days, with a multiverse-shaking convergence at its core?<\/p>\n To that, Rosemann says: \u201cI think what happens often is that, you know, all of us, Marvel and the creators we work with, we\u2019re all fans, right? We all grew up with it. And we\u2019re all looking at the same toy box. And we\u2019re all reaching for things. \u2018Oh, this hasn\u2019t been done before\u2019. And so, sometimes, we\u2019re all reaching for the same thing at the same time.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd the idea of alternate realities, you can only do that after you have years of storytelling, right? So if, for example, with the first What If episode with Captain Carter<\/a>, you can only do that if you had Steve Rogers as Captain America, with Peggy, and you told those stories\u2026 and then [you can] say, \u2018Oh, okay, what if Peggy becomes Cap and Steve is in that Hulkbuster?\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cSo that\u2019s the same thing for us. We\u2019ve worked together for years on Future Fight, and delivering the core Marvel experience. Now we can say, \u2018Okay, now we can do alternate versions of this, what if we combine things?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Rosemann adds: \u201cFor all of us at Marvel, it\u2019s building upon years and years and years of storytelling, and that\u2019s when you can do an alternate version, that\u2019s the only time you can have reason and have meaning, because you and the Marvel fan understand it. If you just come out of the gate with an alternate reality, and you don\u2019t know the stories, you\u2019re like, \u2018Well, I don\u2019t understand, why is this different?\u2019 So it\u2019s [about] building up that time.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd all of us at Marvel, we\u2019re all cutting loose, you know? And that\u2019s what\u2019s so fun about Future Revolution, we just said to Netmarble, \u2018Hey, you\u2019re the chef\u2019. Right? You want to build this open world with these different versions of the characters \u2013 we\u2019re going to give you all the ingredients. You pick the ingredients, and you put them together in a surprising and delightful way. And that\u2019s what the team has done.\u201d<\/p>\n The ingredients they\u2019ve picked are interesting ones, too. Marvel Future Revolution will see multiple alternate realities being forced together \u2013 due to a big sci-fi cataclysm (which was previously teased in Future Fight), the game takes place on a version of Earth that now plays host to a Hydra Empire from one dimension, an Asgardian settlement from another reality, and even a version of Sakaar (the gladiator planet seen in Thor: Ragnarok).<\/p>\n It\u2019s highly ambitious for a mobile game, so much so that Rosemann says some of his colleagues at Marvel thought it was an upcoming console game when they first saw it. And even though it may not have explicit story connections to the other Marvel titles that have come to market during Rosemann\u2019s tenure at the helm, there are heaps of behind-the-scenes links for returning fans to enjoy in this unique spin on the Marvel multiverse.<\/p>\n Marvel Future Revolution launches 25th August for free on iPhone<\/a> and Android<\/a> devices.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Follow Radio Times Gaming on Twitter<\/a> for all the latest insights, or visit our video game release schedule<\/a> for all upcoming games on consoles. <\/strong>Swing by our hubs for more Gaming<\/a> and Technology<\/a>\u00a0news. 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