A brand new interview sheds mild on Just Cause developer Avalanche Studio’s canceled open-world Iron Man recreation, which was rumored to be within the works a decade in the past earlier than getting axed in 2012.
MinnMax’s Ben Hanson interviewed Christofer Sundberg, co-founder of Avalance, who has since left the studio to start out a brand new firm, Liquid Sword. During the interview, Hansen requested Sundberg in regards to the destiny of the Iron Man undertaking, which Sundberg revealed as being in growth for a 12 months and a half to 2 years earlier than being canceled as a result of what he describes as “company politics.”
Sundberg reveals that Disney needed Avalanche to quickly develop its workers to complete the sport below a shortened growth timeline. However, he refused, explaining that doing so would have put a large pressure on the studio.
“It was, I was a mess by the end,” says Sundberg. “Shortening development time, increasing budgets. We would have to hire 70-80 people to the team that I would have had the responsibility to find a new project for, but the development time was shortened down so much. It would have broken the studio completely if we agreed to that.”
He continues by saying, “At the end of a project, when the team is scaling down, that’s when you find [a] new project. With one year of development time cut from the original plan, I had one year less to find a new project for a big development team which would have been impossible. And hiring all those developers would have been a nightmare. So it was for the best”
As far as Sundberg remembers, the sport was disassociated from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and never tied to Iron Man 3, which was in manufacturing at the moment. He says the sport would have allowed gamers to “just take off and fly anywhere” and that it had an enormous give attention to melee fight the place gamers might punch characters via partitions utilizing Iron Man’s repulsors.
The clip is a pleasant little bit of closure provided that Hanson, previously of Game Informer, beforehand requested Sundberg in regards to the undertaking throughout an interview for our Just Cause 3 cowl story in 2014. At the time, Sundberg acknowledged the cancellation of an unannounced Marvel recreation however would not verify the rumors that it was Iron Man-related. So now we all know.
Be positive to observe MinnMax’s full interview with Christofer Sundberg right here, the place he discusses his new studio’s first undertaking, creating the Mad Max recreation, and extra.
