With Comic-Con in full swing, new announcements have started to emerge. Not wanting to be left out in the dark, EA joins in by officially announcing a spiritual successor to Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects.

This news certainly comes as somewhat of a surprise, since the ironically named original wasn’t met with a warm welcome by critics. As a consequence, the newly announced successor will be considered a new franchise that will feature only super heroes from the Marvel universe. To further ensure a new approach, the developers behind the Fight Night games will take on the project slated for a vague 2008 release.

Kudo Tsunoda, General Manager and Vice President of EA Chicago, had the following to say on the new announcement:

We looked at past comic-based games to find out what was missing and what was needed to successfully translate the intensity, excitement and fiction from comics into fighting games. We’re challenging ourselves to make a game that delivers on the Super Hero promises of past top-tier fighting games.

Vice President of Interactive, Marvel Entertainment, Justin Lambros, also said a few words:

Marvel Super Heroes are a natural fit in the fighting game genre, so we’re excited to have Kudo and his team of fighting game experts put these characters toe-to-toe against each other on next generation consoles. This is a game that will deliver to both comic book fans and to fighting game diehards.

No additional details were given on the so-far untitled Marvel fighting game other than the platforms it will be appearing on - Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.

With new development team at the helm, can this one be at least decent?