I'm Finally Hopeful Some Of Marvel's Best Games Could Return After 10 Years

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While Marvel has seen recent success in AAA gaming with titles like Insomniac's series and has plenty of new titles on the way, such as or, there's a whole era of games based on the popular superhero-filled universe that has been largely lost to time due to its scarcity on modern consoles, and it includes some of my favorite titles involving these characters. Activision and Marvel had a lucrative licensing deal that started in 1998 and saw the studio receiving exclusive rights to and -related games, and after several contract extensions, this collaboration ran until the release of the ill-fated movie tie-in in 2014.

As a kid and a teenager when most of the Activision-published Marvel games were released, many of them served as my introduction to several Marvel characters alongside the comics and '90s Fox Kids cartoons. While we have seen many technological advancements in the gaming space that can make titles such as the PlayStation's feel dated in comparison to the likes of the PS5's , there have been occasions where I do find myself digging out my old discs and returning to those games from yesteryear for the sake of nostalgia, and the fact that more often than not, their stories and gameplay still hold up in many ways.

Some fans are tired of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but there are many earlier Marvel Comics-based video games that can alleviate MCU fatigue.

A lot of the Activision era consisted of movie tie-ins — as was the norm for every major blockbuster of the time, and even some not-so-major ones — that weren't always the best, with the exception of titles such as 2004's, which saw the web-slinger in an open-world with physics-based traversal for the first time, or, which was actually better than the movie it was based on. However, there were some classic Marvel titles that came from this collaboration that told their own stories or adapted comic book runs.

For example, both and its sequel, are often regarded as some of the best games featuring