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On Wednesday, EA both shuttered its studio Cliffhanger Games and cancelled the Black Panther game it was developing<\/a>. Since it was originally announced in 2023, we hadn\u2019t heard much about the game, other than that it would have been an open world adventure starring the titular hero. Now, a new report from Bloomberg<\/a> has shed some light on what exactly Cliffhanger was working on, and I\u2019m both sad and angered all over again.<\/p>\n

The entire report is worth reading, and the section that really catches my eye is about how the Black Panther game would have adapted the Nemesis System. Cliffhanger was started by ex-developers from Monolith Productions, the minds behind Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor<\/em> and its sequel Shadow of War<\/em>, and reportedly the Cliffhanger team was attempting to create a new system that expanded on what the Nemesis System from those games could do.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Monolith\u2019s Nemesis System involved procedurally generated enemies who had unique traits (mostly grudges directed toward the protagonist Talion) and who would eventually return for a rematch. Some would flee from battle only to come back stronger later in the game. Others perhaps defeated Talion and were shocked to later see he<\/em> was battling them again. Enemies would even get promoted among the ranks of Uruks, making it feel like your foes weren\u2019t just nameless fodder to be slaughtered.<\/p>\n

It was a thoroughly inventive enemy system, and an expanded version of it sounds like it would have been a wild ride in Cliffhanger\u2019s Black Panther game. According to the Bloomberg story, the game would have featured \u201cvarious playable heroes\u201d vying for the title of Black Panther, like T\u2019Challa, his sister Shuri, and everyone\u2019s favorite scene-stealer from the 2018 film, Killmonger<\/a>. They would all be opposing an alien invasion from Skrulls, shape-shifting aliens featured in MCU films like Captain Marvel<\/em> and comic event series like Secret Invasion<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Skrulls sound like such a perfect fit for the Nemesis System; as Bloomberg reported, Skrull enemies could even pose as your allies, throwing a whole new layer of intrigue and immersion into the Nemesis System, already one of the more original ideas seen in contemporary video games. I can only imagine how exciting it\u2019d be for one of your allies to suddenly attack you, revealing themself as a Skrull leader you thought you bested for good earlier in the game.<\/p>\n

And now because EA doesn\u2019t seem to know what it\u2019s doing<\/a>, we won\u2019t be getting Cliffhanger\u2019s revamped Nemesis System. And, even worse, the talented developers behind this system are left looking for work and wondering what\u2019s next for them.<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday, EA both shuttered its studio Cliffhanger Games and cancelled the Black Panther game it was developing. Since it was originally announced in 2023, we hadn\u2019t heard much about the game, other than that it would have been an open world adventure starring the titular hero. Now, a new report from Bloomberg has shed some light on what exactly Cliffhanger was working on, and I\u2019m both sad and angered all over again. The entire report is worth reading, and the section that really catches my eye is about how the Black Panther game would have adapted the Nemesis System. Cliffhanger was started by ex-developers from Monolith Productions, the minds behind Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and its sequel Shadow of War, and reportedly the Cliffhanger…<\/p>\n

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