There may be some truth to this story. The website www.kotaku.com.au is reporting that Activision and Marvel have 14 different Spider-Man video game titles in development. Here they are from their website.
Spider-Man: Agile Warrior (Wii) – Let’s players control Spidey with the Wii Balance Board
Spider-Man: Hero Evolved (360, PS3, Wii) – Play as the son of Spider-Man in 2064 using spider powers and future tech to battle villains
Spider-Man: New Heights (360, PS3, Wii) – Upgrade Spidey’s abilities as he moves from battling low level gangs to famous foes at New York City’s skyline
Spider-Man: Gangs of New York (360, PS3, Wii) – Gangs take over the city and Spidey must pit them against each other
Spider-Man: Adaptation (360, PS3, Wii) – Spidey travels all over the globe, from Tokyo to Paris to Moscow to take out his foes
Marvel Team Up: Spider-Man Meets the X-Men (360, PS3, Wii) – Doctor Octopus and Magneto team up to take on Spidey and the X-men in locations like Manhattan and the Savage Land via two-player coop play
Spider-Man: Contest of Champions (360, PS3, Wii) – Destructable fighter for 2-4 players with Spider-Man, Venom, Wolverine, Electro, Doc Oc, Carnage and Green Goblin
Spider-Man: Mass Evolution (360, PS3, Wii) – Spidey’s skills, from speed to strength to spider-senses are upgradeable as you play
Spider-Man: Chaos (360, PS3, Wii) – Spidey has 8 hours of frenetic action to save the city from certain doom
Spider-Man: Tactics (360, PS3, Wii) – A stealthy and strategic Spidey game
Spider-Man: Vision (360, PS3, Wii) – First- and third-person gameplay, Spidey style
Spider-Man vs. Marvel Zombies (360, PS3, Wii) – Spidey takes on the undead of the Marvel Universe in the future
Spider-Man: Webmaster (Wii) – Uses a web shooter game controller for third person action
Spider-Man: Webslinger (360, PS3, Wii) – Use precision web aiming to target enemies, build web slingshots and snipe enemies
Ugh, talk about milking the franchise.
Almost all of these ideas are bad. And none sound to make a fun game. I’m a Spidey fan that will religiously buy nearly anything and everything Spider-Man but these ideas are just horrible.
I feel like they could combine half of these games and thin the list.
Okay.. nevermind that I think 14 is a bit much, but isn’t Spider-Man: Hero Evolved just a slap in the face of Spider-Girl fans?