Summary
It’s been a long time since gamers have heard anything aboutMonolith Productions' Wonder Woman project. It turns out that there may be a troubling reason why that may be. That is if word from former IGN employee andcurrent Kinda Funny host Greg Milleris to be believed.
In an episode dedicated to Summer Game Fest predictions, Miller reported that an insider had told him within the last year that the Wonder Woman game was “troubled.” Here are his full words:
Here you go, you want it? You want the exclusive? I’ll give you my ‘Jeff Grubb’ information. In the past year – cause I’ll leave it ambiguous – I have talked to an insider, who was like, ‘This game’s troubled.’ That’s it, that’s all I’ll say. So I don’t hold out hope that it’s in a place to show something.
And here is the video version:
For those who are unfamiliar with the project,Wonder Woman was initially announced back at the 2021 edition of The Game Awards. The revealtook the form of a 40-second CGI trailerthat was narrated by Hippolyta, Wonder Woman’s mother. Outside of sharing that, Monolith Productions,the developers behind the Middle Earth series, would be taking on the project, not much else was shown, and, in the time since, things have remained radio silent.
A 2021 press release following the trailerdid confirm that it would be an open-world game and would make use of the Nemesis Systemmade famous by those Lord of the Ringstitlesand also patented by Warner Bros. The plot synopsis given was the following:
The single-player open-world action game will introduce an original story set in the DC Universe and allow players to become Diana of Themyscira in the fight to unite her Amazon family and the humans from the modern world.
In 2022,though that likely had more to do withthe Nemesis System and its ability to create narrativesbased on the enemies involved. A year later, in 2023,there was a fear that the game had shifted to a live service title, like Warner Bros' other DC-based titles, includingSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. However,that was quickly debunked by Warner Bros themselves.
A Warner Bros. spokesperson told IGN in a statement:
Wonder Woman is a single-player action-adventure game set in a dynamic open-world. This third person experience will allow players to become Diana of Themyscira and introduce an original story set in the DC Universe, while also featuring the Nemesis System. Wonder Woman is not being designed as a live service,"
April of this yearmarked an entire 850 days, or two years and four months since the game’s reveal. Nothing has been shown since, and that number has only grown. WithSummer Game Fest on the horizon, and predictions slowly filtering in, it seems like gamers can cross off Wonder Woman from their lists. In the interim,MultiVersus does have a playable Wonder Womanas well asa hilarious potshot at the flop that was Black Adam.
