E3 2016: 9 Things To Expect From Spider-Man On PS4

4. It Could Pave The Way For Further Marvel Titles

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Apart from Spider-Man and the X-Men, the rest of the Marvel Universe has never really fared that well in gaming. We had two Ultimate Alliance titles that were fantastic, but apart from Raven Software's dungeon crawling adventures the comic book company's properties have been dismally treated in the medium, having been relegated to innocuous button-mashing movie tie-ins for the great majority of their gaming entries.

Now that Sega have thankfully relinquished control of some of Marvel's foremost licenses it would be as good a time as any to start bringing them back, especially considering the ridiculous popularity the MCU is enjoying at the moment. Once obscure heroes like Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage are now characters that could easily sell in vast quantities, and who better to launch their success than the wall-crawler himself?

A gaming counterpart to the MCU would only further solidify Marvel's reputation for taking their source-material to other mediums with fantastic levels of success, especially to an area where they've been lacking in recent years. Rather than relying on the guaranteed draw of their most famous character like Warner Bros. have been doing with Batman, making a discernible effort to take full advantage of the company's massive roster would be the best thing they could possibly do.

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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.