10 Potential Superhero Video Games (And Who Should Make Them)
3. Blade: Platinum Games
Marvel Comics
Though Platinum's latest attempt at comic book success was pretty unremarkable in TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan, there's no doubt that the team are technically gifted. They've been handed a bunch of setbacks over the past few years, and while it appears that the studio are working on a new IP, it would be really great to see them return to a licensed project sometime in the future.
Blade - the character that pretty much kicked off the world's modern day love affair with comic book movies - is the perfect character for Platinum. A brash, talented vampire hunter, Eric Brooks' heavily stylised sense of dress and combat would be ideally suited for Platinum's talents, especially when you consider their success in Bayonetta and Metal Gear Rising, both of which featured wickedly cool characters brandishing swords and guns killing things and looking insanely good while doing it.
The idea with Blade is that you want to make him feel powerful. He is, after all, the Daywalker - a vampire's nightmare come to life. Empower people the same way Rocksteady did with Arkham, and Blade could be the surefire mature success Marvelites have been waiting for, as well as the perfect remedy for Platinum's (hopefully temporary) ills.
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.
