Just over a year ago, Activision released Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, a game developed by Beenox that offered a fresh and unique take on the webslinger and the comic book video game genre. It was well received and easily earned itself a follow-up.
That follow-up, Spider-Man: Edge of Time, released only a few weeks ago and was a big letdown. Serving more as an overpriced expansion of sorts to Shattered Dimensions, Beenox rushed the game and now we know why: they’re working on a movie tie-in for The Amazing Spider-Man.
At New York Comic-Con – which is taking place now – several sources spotted a poster for The Amazing Spider-Man, the game, with Beenox and Activision logos on it. It’s absolutely a movie tie-in since the post features the title character wearing actor Andrew Garfield’s Spidey costume from the film, mechanical web shooters and all, and of course, it features the studio, Columbia Pictures, on it as well.
Take a look:
Activision has yet to officially announce the game but expect news shortly after it is unveiled at the convention. Just yesterday, Activision also revealed another movie tie-in for next year’s film, Men In Black III, although the game drops the number and promises a standalone story.
The Amazing Spider-Man opens in theaters July 3, 2012, only 9 months from now and so we assume the video game to release at the same time. Enough development time if this is the case? Absolutely not. Three games released all in less than two years is not a formula for quality.
After Edge of Time was rushed and earned weak reviews across the board (including from us), such a short dev cycle combined with the fact The Amazing Spider-Man is a movie tie-in do not bode well for the game and for Spider-Man fans.
Could The Amazing Spider-Man be the reason Edge of Time was a sloppy release? Could it be that a movie tie-in will have caused not one, but two bad games? Only time will tell but we’re all excited about the film – please don’t let the game suck. Marvel deserves better and after Thor, Iron Man 2, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Edge of Time, etc. etc., so do gamers.
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Source: IGN
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It better be like SM2 but with SM3/WOS Graphics and a better physics engine..hell put FROSTBITE 2 or UNREAL 3 enginge in there!! ik they are owned by different companies but I loved SM3 game unlike soo many people so I’d like a game like that again just with better physics, being able to interact WAYYY more with the city and civilians and etc.
Spiderman 3 The game was repetitive and had a crappy story and to top it off you had to deal with these pointless and mundane missions to swing Mary Jane (while being timed because you know if she has time to swing around new York off your neck spiderman doesnt) around doing ridiculous stunts while she’s still hogging on your back only to run into the predictable generic gang attack on a roof somewhere because you know…..that makes sense. Spiderman 2 was good but it wasn’t “the greatest thing ever” it was a decent spiderman game.
As long as this game will be open world…..im good. Who agree??
Spider-Man 2 was one of the best games I ever played, mostly thanks to the open world. But with all the repetitive side-missions, I got bored of it. Every Spider-Man game since which used an open world formula has pretty much sucked. SM3, Web of Shadows. Then, they went back to a strict level design for Shattered Dimensions, and it’s possibly my new favourite.
Beenox should only do an open world game if they can do it justice. No repetitive side-missions, seperate side-quests. A bit like what I hear about Arkham City.
Then their gonna try too hard to be like Arkham City and ride on that bandwagon. They should do something ton make it stand apart from the string of lackluster spiderman games but I don’t see it being even close to Arkham City or Arkham Asylum gameplay or story wise.