Comics’ long-running superhero series have often been relegated to simple beat’em-ups that don’t convey the published works’ emotional depth. X-Men: Destiny, developed by Silicon Knights (Too Human), could be the role-playing game that changes all that.

The upcoming game will place the player in the role of a young mutant as he discovers and learns how to deal with his burgeoning powers, with a heavy emphasis on the choices he makes.

“It’s about finding out that your powers aren’t a dream come true,” said the game’s writer Mike Carey at New York Comic Con on Saturday. “There will be people who will hate you, people who will fear you. It’ll be about the process of finding a community, a family.”

If the recently released teaser trailer for the game is any indication, players may find that community with many of the series’ mainstay characters like Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm and Magneto.

“One of our goals in putting this game together was to make it feel as if you’re really in the X-Men universe, meeting the characters you know and love,” Carey said.

A representative of Activision, the game’s publisher, said at its Comic Con booth that the game would be released in 2011. The company did not say which platforms it would be released on.

Besides offering a deeper role-playing experience to X-Men fans, Destiny answers a burning question on the minds of gamers: What’s up with Silicon Knights?

The Ontario, Canada, game developer went dark after Microsoft released its Xbox 360 role-playing game Too Human, which was met with a lukewarm critical reaction, in 2008. Since then, the company has received multiple grants from the Canadian government to develop games, but Destiny is its first announced project.

For now, publisher Activision seems to be keeping Silicon Knights’ involvement in the game behind the curtain. Though the company’s logo appears on the game’s trailer, Silicon Knights was not at New York Comic Con to represent the game in any official capacity. The only one to speak about the game was Marvel employee Carey.

Although he wouldn’t share any specific details about Destiny’s story or gameplay, he told Wired.com that players would be given access to a “range of powers.”

Based on what we’ve seen and heard so far, it seems like players will be able to choose from a number of mutant abilities at the outset, which will directly affect how the game plays out.

See Also:

• Silicon Knights Creating X-Men: Destiny for Activision
• Review: Too Human More Potential Than Payoff

Authors: Jason Schreier

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