GTA and Spider-Man are big shoes to fill, but Ananta producer decides to raise expectations even higher with Marvel Avengers comparisons: "They are the protagonists of their own stories"

A man is handcuffed in Ananta by a police officer with bright pink hair, from the PlayStation gameplay trailer.

Upcoming free-to-play RPG Ananta will kind of be like you're Avengers-era Spider-Man in Grand Theft Auto, we think. Also, there's gang violence. Also, you can be an anime girl with bunny ears.

GamesRadar+ noticed the game's kitchen sink approach to open-world antics during our Ananta preview, in which writer Alessandro Fillari describes the title by developer Naked Rain as the "full-on 'anime GTA' experience." But producer Ash Qi also wants us to consider Marvel's noble Avengers, seeing as how "many of the characters in the game could be protagonists in their own game."