10 Potential Superhero Video Games (And Who Should Make Them)
6. Wonder Woman: SIE Santa Monica Studio
DC Comics
Another Sony-bound studio here, but one no less equipped to take on a DC property.
Santa Monica are a studio I'm admittedly a tad trepidatious about. Their original God of War series - whilst iconic - pretty much offered the most laughably OTT protagonist in the medium's history, and the less that is said about its portrayal of women, the better.
That said, the new God of War actually looks like it's offering a genuinely character-driven - at times reserved - tale of family and redemption. Indeed, the series' newfound creative direction has gotten a lot of people talking, so much so that I actually think the devs behind it would be more than capable of delivering a killer adaptation of the Wonder Woman license.
I mean, there's no denying that they get how to do combat, and seeing as how Diana is the best warrior in the DC Universe, there are few developers out there that I can think of who could convincingly portray her skills, doubly so in a mythological environment.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
