Give Us More Open-World Superhero Games, You Cowards!

It’s about to be 2020, and I can’t believe we aren’t oversaturated in Assassin’s Creed-esque superhero games. Hear me out, I don’t want to sound ungrateful but… we’ve beaten criminals to a pulp in the streets of Gotham as Batman, and swung through the skies of New York City as Spider-Man. Why don’t we see more games like this with our favorite heroes, specifically ones that take place in an open-world? It seems like a gold mine of potential, yet I can only think of a few from the past decade or so. Of course, superhero video games exist. And there’s plenty of really amazing ones. I’m particularly excited about the Avengers one coming out next year, even if Captain America looks like he pieced together his uniform at an “Everything Must Go” Big 5 closing sale. But it ain’t open world. At least I don’t think it is. We don’t have enough of those in the superhero genre. Like, I want every square inch of the map available to us from the moment we start the game, whether we’re ready or have reached that part of the story or not. Give it to me. Marvel’s The Avengers from Square Enix, due out in May 2020 There are a few games that come to mind that’ll serve as the template for what I’m talking about. This is what I would want in an open-world superhero game and if I don’t get it, I… probably won’t do anything about it.  The Batman Arkham franchise started out in a contained environment, and through three games (not including Origins), blossomed into a true open-world habitat where …