Job Listing for Upcoming Black Panther Game Hints That It Will Be Open World
The recently announced Black Panther game in development at EA may be open world, judging from a new job listing posted for the title. Given the amount of open world fatigue some gamers have experienced in recent years, this aspect of Black Panther could prove divisive if done poorly.
EA's untitled Black Panther game, which is currently being developed at the newly-created Seattle-based studio Cliffhanger Games, was formally announced in July 2023. The quiet reveal of the title was met with little fanfare, in large part because EA did not reveal any real specifics about the game itself. In addition, the studio making it is currently unproven, although there is some former talent from Shadow of Mordor developer Monolith Productions working at Cliffhanger Games. Nonetheless, fans have been hoping to get some sort of update on this upcoming Black Panther game ever since its announcement. Though this latest tidbit of info may not be the information blowout that some may have been hoping for, it does at least give an insight into what fans might expect going into this Black Panther video game.
According to a job listing posted on EA's official website, Cliffhanger Games is currently searching for a Principal Sandbox Designer who «will be instrumental in designing and populating encounters, systems, and gameplay within a dynamic and evolving open world.» Unless Cliffhanger Games is working on another unannounced title alongside this one, which is unlikely, this seems to suggest that its upcoming superhero game will forgo a linear structure in favor of a fully realized open world. This listing seems to further verify a report from insider Jeff Grubb in 2022, who claimed that EA's Black Panther game would be open world before the title was even officially announced.
Open-world superhero games are by no means a new concept, given thattitles likeSpider-Man 2,Gotham Knights, Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, and Batman: Arkham City fall under this description. However,
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