{"id":36501,"date":"2012-04-23T11:36:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T09:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=36501"},"modified":"2012-04-23T13:04:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T11:04:24","slug":"the-avengers-game-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/36501-the-avengers-game-that-never-was","title":{"rendered":"The Avengers game that never was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Avengers movie releasing locally this week, a lot of people are probably wondering where the official video game is.<\/p>\n<p>It will never be released. Most gamers will probably lift their noses to a movie tie-in, given the quality standards we&#8217;re used to from movie-to-game adaptions, but you should take note of the Avengers game that could have been.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"THQ Inc\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11889-THQ-Inc\">THQ<\/a> halted development of the project a while ago, but some pre-alpha gameplay footage of the cancelled game did manage to slip out.<\/p>\n<p>The video itself is quite interesting, as the game takes the form of a first-person action adventure, where players were set to take control of Iron Man, Hulk, Thor and Captain America.<\/p>\n<p>While the gameplay is a little choppy and unpolished, one can definitely see the potential the game may of had.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DnaF9PSqER8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THQ&#8217;s movie tie-in looked promising despite being cancelled. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":36503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,3747,3745,3746,369],"class_list":["post-36501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-avengers-gameplay-footage","tag-the-avengers","tag-the-avengers-game","tag-thq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36505,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36501\/revisions\/36505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}