Just Cause Studio Was Working on an Open World Iron Man Game, But It Was Canceled
It's rare for game development studios to share information about canceled projects, even years after the fact. Business relationships, NDAs, and any number of other restricting factors can keep these secrets buried deep. That's why it came as a surprise when Avalanche Studios co-founder Christofer Sundberg recently mentioned one of the company's canceled projects offhandedly during an interview. It wasn't just any project, either, but rather an open-world Iron Man game from theJust Cause developer.
In an interview with MinnMax, Sundberg says that the Iron Man project «would have been great.» He explained that the Iron Man project was in development for a «couple» of years, but that it was eventually canceled around 2012. That would place the Iron Man game's development sometime around or after the development of Just Cause 2, which was when Avalanche really embraced open-world game design and vertical movement using grappling.
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No explanation for why the Iron Man game was canceled was provided. While it's implied that Disney and Marvel canceled the project, it's also possible that there was a publisher involved that could also have decided to pull out. This was during a window where other Iron Man games were also being released, with Iron Man 2 launching in 2008 and Iron Man 3 being released in 2013. Those two games were adaptations of Marvel's Iron Man films, but there's no indication Avalanche's game was.
Fans of the Just Cause franchise, and Marvel as well, will understandably be disappointed to hear that such a game was in development and will never get released. Open-world games have only grown in popularity over the past decade. And the idea of flying Iron Man around an open
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