Famed “Ratchet and Clank” and “Marvel’s Spider-Man” game developers Insomniac Games are going to be focused primarily on the highly anticipated “Marvel’s Spider-Man 2” in the coming months. The title remains on track for a release towards the year’s end.
Still, that project is one of only two announced Marvel games it is developing. The other is the previously announced “Wolverine” game which was first given a brief teaser trailer in late 2021 and was advised at the time to be some years off.
VGC reports that industry insider Jeff Grubb, during a recent Giant Bomb livestream, has revealed that the studio is going for an M rating from the ESRB for the game which is targeting a late 2024 or more likely 2025 release.
That marks a change from the “Spider-Man” games which are rated T for teen. Grubb says:
“Hard R is what they’re going for… that’s one of the concepts that I’ve heard. I think an M-rated Wolverine could work, I think an M-rated superhero game could work, and this is probably the right character.”
The surprisingly lauded “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” game, which it’s difficult to get a working copy of these days, earned an M rating back in the day and was lauded for its gory combat.
Grubb also reportedly says that Insomniac is trying to deliberately avoid comparisons to the Fox “X-Men” and standalone Wolverine movies in order to make something that stands on its own. He reportedly claims to have heard the game starts in a time period before Wolverine joins the X-Men.
