Marvel Universe Online Interview

The folks at Ten Ton Hammer have posted a three-page interview with Cryptic Studios’ Victor Wachter and Shayne Herrera about their upcoming superhero MMORPG, Marvel Universe Online.

I was curious about the extent that Cryptic was pursuing the research of particular characters.

(Yes. Each of our designers are given a set of comic books that they are to read from beginning to end,) Victor said. (They are given characters that they are to become intimately familiar with. It’s a better job for some cases rather than others.

(Some people have a pretty scattershot sort of assignment, where they are researching Black Panther, Silver Surfer, Ka-Zar, and the Sub-Mariner. Then there are guys that have the X-Men with its huge amount of spin-offs and backstories. But in both cases, these guys go all the way back to the beginning of the characters to the 60s in a lot of cases.