Highlights

  • Marvel games deliver cinematic experiences with photo modes to capture action scenes, like Spider-Man's high-flying stunts.
  • Marvel fans can look forward to upcoming games like Marvel 1943, Wolverine, and Iron Man, potentially on par with Spider-Man's success.
  • Iron Man's game by EA Motive could benefit from Spider-Man 2's action figure photo mode with different suit designs and character poses.

Recent Marvel games have followed in the footsteps of their film counterparts in delivering epic, cinematic experiences worth preserving long after players finish the game. As such, the inclusion of a photo mode in a game like Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is a perfect way to capture the Web-Slinger's high-flying stunts in action and render them to showcase the hardware capabilities of current-gen platforms. However, there is one addition to the photo mode of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 that is unexpectedly charming and would make for a great inclusion in EA Motive's upcoming Iron Man game.

Marvel fans have a lot of games to look forward to in the coming years, with titles like Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, Marvel's Wolverine, and Marvel's Iron Man in development. While there hasn't been much revealed about Marvel's Iron Man from developer EA Motive, the game holds the potential to be another hit on the same level as Insomniac's Spider-Man games. The ultimate icing on the cake for Iron Man fans would be for the game to feature the Action Figure photo mode from Spider-Man 2 to allow players to create imaginative snapshots using the hero's iconic armor.

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EA Motive's Iron Man Needs Spider-Man 2's Action Figure Photo Mode

Insomniac had already created one of the most photogenic games in recent years with Spider-Man 2, but earlier this year, the New Game Plus update for Spider-Man 2 added the Action Figure photo mode that took the community by storm. This mode allows players to scale down Peter, Miles, and even Venom to the size of action figures and place them in any pose or position they desire. The results went viral as players let their creativity run wild, capturing hilarious, epic, and charming shots of these characters in miniature.

The popularity of this photo mode addition shouldn't go unnoticed by EA Motive when developing Marvel's Iron Man, since Tony Stark would be the perfect character to see put in similar poses and configurations as an action figure-sized hero. Despite this mode being added via a post-launch update to Marvel's Spider-Man 2, it could do wonders for Marvel's Iron Man's success if it is included at launch. Given how viral some of these Spider-Man 2 action figure shots went after the mode was added, EA Motive could really help sell players on their title by following a similar blueprint.

Spider-Man 2's Action Figure Photo Mode Holds Too Much Potential for EA Motive's Iron Man to Pass Up

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A fundamental part of Insomniac's Spider-Man games is all the various suits players can collect. Each of these suits references a different iteration of Spider-Man or other characters within the Spider-Man universe, alongside other original designs. The wide variety of suits available enhances the game's photogenic nature, giving players even more room for creativity in producing scenes using their favorite suits combined with their favorite poses, and a similar mechanic could also work in Marvel's Iron Man's favor given the iconic nature of Tony Stark's high-tech Iron Man suits.

Like Spider-Man, Iron Man has a wide variety of suit designs that EA Motive would be wise to include in their game given the popularity of the suit collecting in Insomniac's titles. Including different Iron Man suits would also give EA Motive an even greater reason to feature Spider-Man 2's Action Figure photo mode, since players will more than likely want to create unique snapshots with the hero's various armors. Depending on which other characters are featured in the game, being able to add allies like War Machine to these photos would be a welcome addition and could help give Marvel's Iron Man the extra layer of polish needed for success.