It was a little over 3 years ago when gamers and fans of Wolverine were introduced to a cinematic trailer for a brand new Wolverine game in a similar style to Spider-Man that they created for PlayStation.
Now since the release of this cinematic trailer, we’ve barely seen anything in regards to Wolverine, no trailer, no gameplay trailer, no new information, or anything of that nature. The only stuff we have seen in regards to this came from the massive leak.
Now, with this leak, I will say that Insomniac Games did have a rough time with over 1.3 terabytes of data being leaked including personnel files and information. With what was released within this leak it showcased a great road ahead for Insomniac Games as a studio.
Within these leaks, we have stuff revealed such as X-Men games, Venom games, and a ton of Wolverine footage, information, character reveals, and even a playable build of the game. This leak was just a little over 1 year ago.
Did this leak ruin the studio or did this leak set the studio way back? I looked at the leaks, especially for Wolverine. From everything I saw back then I felt as though the marketing for the game should have begun this year. There were only a few adjustments needed such as VFX and a few gameplay issues that needed to be sorted.
Now, I get that Insomniac Games might have wanted to delay the marketing to change a few things within the game due to it being leaked but you’d still think that the studio would at least give fans a new trailer, whether that is a gameplay trailer or another longer cinematic trailer.
I also get that they had to deal with Spider-Man 2. They delivered a great game with that and even set up potential DLCs throughout the game but they have confirmed that no DLC is coming for Spider-Man 2 which is a huge disappointment.
Another thing mentioned in the leak was Venom. Fans were meant to be receiving a video game focused on Venom in a similar fashion to the Miles Morales game but once again the studio has been very quiet on that front.
The last thing I heard about Wolverine was that the creative director for the game had left to go work for Xbox. So my question stands, Is Insomniac Games failing at Wolverine or just as a studio? The fans deserve to get a new fresh look at Wolverine, especially with how long they are been working on it as mentioned above, it has been over 3 years since the cinematic trailer.
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Its failing as a studio. Not only the creative director but the story director also left last year. Brian Horton is still working in the studio but he is focusing on the new installment of the perfect dark. The leak did do a bit of a damage to its hype(marketing) by recieving criticism of its character designs. I guess Insomniac is just foreseeing that whatever the leaks hyped or revealed for the game will die out in future. Then they will release a trailer to create new hype in a good way.
I think that is the only “positive” way of looking at the delay of how insomniac is handling this situation. I understand that actually it takes years to create mechanics for new IP. But a new cinematic trailer(with new footage) will not any harm. It will only create make fans more impatient. Unless they are looking to cancel out the whole direction they are switching into.
*less impatient