Hey folks, if last week’s announcement about the newest Spidey-game didn’t get you excited, maybe this follow up post will. As many of you have been saying, this game looks more like a direct sequel to last year’s Shattered Dimensions instead of a new, stand alone game. You get the same freefall scenes in 2099, and the same combo-heavy, web-attack friendly Amazing universe.
The voice actors from Shattered Dimensions will be playing a sort of musical dimensions as well as they switch their roles up. Josh Keaton will voice the Amazing dimension, and Christopher Daniel Barnes will be covering 2099. Looks like more of the same, with less Ultimate and Noir of course, but that is not a bad thing in my book. One of the new features they have added is the picture-in-picture where you can see how your decisions in one dimension directly affects the other. Sounds interesting but hopefully it does not come off as gimmicky as it sounds.
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“Spider-Man 2099 figures out a way to telepathically communicate with Amazing Spider-Man through time and convinces him that the life he is living isn’t right. Not only is the perfect life that Peter Parker living wrong, but he’s set to meet his end very soon.” How does that work if Spidey99 saves Amazing???
How is he not living ‘right’? lol Does he become lazy, quit his job and eat bon-bons all day?
This trailer makes it look like our hero is a tool compared to 2099. look at he gets his ass handed to him in this.
Oh boy, a rehash
It just looked like a lot of fighting (+ the free fall with 2099), which I’m actually rather sick of to be honest.
I did not mean for it to come off like I meant a for real sequel, just that it was more or less the same as SD…it’s a spiritual successor or something. It could probably have just been packaged as DLC if they wanted to go that route because they look so similar. Yeah there are new aspects and probably some other little touches to diffirentiate the two, but for the most part, it might as well be just directly related to SD.
Definitely could have taken a little longer between game releases but they’re just trying to capitalize which they can’t be blamed for. As long as we’re willing to buy them, like most of us seem to plan on doing, they’re going to keep putting them out. I’ll take any chance I can get to play as good ole Spidey as long as the game looks enjoyable.
This game is not a direct sequel story wise. It’s been confirmed by many different sources that the Spider-man 2099 is a different one from shattered dimensions.
(Peter and Miguel start off with a lot of tension.)
I agree with Spider-girl. Half a year is definitely not long enough to pop out a game for this generation. Games like Infamous, Uncharted, and Batman all took up to 2-3 years to be completed.
I like the story but it looks like they aren’t touching the gameplay.
But I’ll probably still get it. *sigh*
Used this time of course.
Shattered Dimensions was just OK. Not horrible, but certainly not great. It feels confining to be Spider-man, of any dimension or universe, and be stuck in a non-free-roaming environment. Had they opted for a free roaming environment for this follow up game I’d definitely be in, but currently I’m luke warm about it. As Web-Head said, Activision is just trying to milk Spidey for all he’s worth. It is their M.O. when it comes to games. It’s too bad that they’re doing it with our favorite hero now.
i am excited for this game. they picked the best and most interesting dimensions of the previous one and i hope they will develop them even further this time and with a superb writer like Peter David (who also created the spidey 2099 universe) i believe at least story-wise the game wont go wrong.
@BD, you can blame Activision for that feeling. They’re trying to turn Spidey into one of their yearly franchises and milk him all he’s worth until they can’t anymore (like Guitar Hero and CoD). I wish they’d give Beenox more time to work on the game’s. 🙁
I’m just not sure about this…
I jusat watched the trailer and I’m down for the game since I loved the first one so much. However, I’m not as jazzed about it. It seems like it was rushed out since the first one was so well received.
Brian,
I’m the elf that put the video with the post. In the future just click on the “HTML” tab in the body of your post. And paste the “Embeded code” found on videos around the net. Thanks again for beating me to the update.
BD
Both voices are my favorite Spidey voices, but I do question switiching them.
Can’t go wrong with Josh Keaton as Amazing Spider-Man and Christopher Daniel Barnes as Spider-Man 2099. By the tone of CDB’s voice, 2099 should be a bit darker then how Dan Gilvezan voiced him in Shattered Dimensions (I did like hearing him but the original 2099 isn’t as light hearted). Another “out-of-this-world” storyline with no free roaming. I miss that concept and think it would be cool for once to be Spider-Man 2099 in a free roam environment… but that won’t happen.
I wish they would have gotten rid of the webbed attacks in the shape of fists but I can live with it.
oh, and thanks for the video help whoever my little magic video elf was that fixed that
got rid of the first person fist fight*
Glad it looks like they’re saying they got right of the first person fist fight… those parts of the boss battles were really annoying in my opinion
Dang, you beat me to it. There is, however, this preview that you might be interested in.
http://www.destructoid.com/preview-spider-man-edge-of-time-198049.phtml