Marvel fans should get their hands on promising new game fodder in the foreseeable future: Uncharted creator Amy Hennig has announced an action-packed excursion into the era of the Second World War with Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra.
If you love the Marvel superhero universe, you can put a new video game on your watch list that features, among other things, the well-known heroes Captain America and Black Panther. The game is called Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra and has now been officially announced as part of GDC 2024. This is a new action-adventure game from Skydance New Media and Marvel Games that relies on a strong narrative component and will be released next year 2025.
The orientation as a narrative action-adventure is no coincidence, after all, Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra is the first game from Uncharted creator Amy Hennig from Skydance New Media. Hennig made a name for himself as creative director of the Uncharted series and also worked on the unfinished Star Wars game from Visceral Games.
She has now landed at Skydance New Media, where this Marvel project was originally announced without a specific name in 2021 as a “narrative blockbuster action-adventure with a completely new story and its own approach in the Marvel universe”. At Epic Games’ State of Unreal keynote at GDC, Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra made its debut with a story trailer.
The appearance at Epic Games also has a background: the action-adventure is being developed based on the latest version of Unreal Engine 5 and is therefore opulent. Thanks to the trailer, we also know a little more about the setting: There are four playable characters – the young Steve Rogers aka Captain America, Azzuri aka Black Panther of the WWII era and T’Challa’s grandfather, the US soldier and member of the Howling Commandos Gabriel Jones and Wakanda spy Nanali – who ends up in the era of World War II. There they have to take on Hydra in Paris.
The confirmed cast for the new Marvel adventure includes Khary Payton as Azzuri/Black Panther, Drew Moerlein as Steve Rogers/Captain America, Megalyn Echikunwoke as Nanali and Marque Richardson as Gabriel Jones. Lyne Renée plays Julie, who is said to be a key ally in the French Resistance, and Joel Johnston is WWII-era Howard Stark.
In addition to Marvel 1943, Skydance New Media also has an as-yet-unannounced Star Wars game in the works. In addition, another publisher, Electronic Arts, is continuing to work on its Black Panther game.
The new action-adventure Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra was finally officially presented at GDC.
