Activision and Marvel announced their next Spider-Man game to be released from Beenox, the studio behind Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. Coming this fall, you can grab the controls for Spider-Man: Edge of Time. Written by Peter David, the game "challenges the player to take on the roles of both classic Amazing Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2099 to correct a timestream gone awry and prevent a catastrophic future brought on by the early and untimely death of Peter Parker."
What sounds interesting is the "cause-and-effect" gameplay. As you're messing with the timestream in the game, things can change immediately for the player. It could be complicated, but if it worked out, I can't say I've seen anything like that.
Finally, there's a good chance that iFanboy will get a chance to take a look at this game nice and early, and maybe we'll have a report for you.
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Awesome, this could end of being the Ocarina of Time for Spider-Man games. Very excited for this and the fact that we’ll get to see Peter David writing both Peter Parker and Miguel O’Hara again.
Chronotrigger did it waaaaay back in ’92 ish. Chronocross did it again in the late 90’s. Couple other Japanese games did it less successfully.
@zombox Ahhh! Game nerds!
@josh I am the couch cushion that will not refluff.
@zombox I have only heard the title, Chronotrigger, because I produced a 5 part series for G4 once on the 100 greatest video games of all time.
It should be noticed that I didn’t pick the games, as I had not heard of at least half of them.
Beenox REALLLLLLY loves them some 2099, don’t they?
@warmachine15 – Who doesn’t?
@josh Didn’t know you worked for G4. That must have been… interesting. Chronotrigger definitely deserves a place in that list. It was a pretty good and, for its time, innovative game.
We gotta do something about your kids Marty Peter!
I’d heard mixed things about the first title, so I’m not sure how excited I am for another licensed game from the same studio. The time thing is certainly not new to video games, but how it’s executed will be more important.
Instead of doing time travel stuff, they really just need to do what Arkham Asylum did: take what’s awesome about the character and make it into a game. These Spider-Man games seem to be more focused on flash instead of substance.
@josh: That’s cool to know. Seriously, I watched the 5 part series and it was one of the few things good that aired on the station. I really wish you could publish a ‘tell-all’ book about G4 and sell millions of copies.
The last Spider-Man game was……alright. Not bad but nothing special to remember other then playing the various characters. Hopefully this is an improvement.
Does anyone know if this is a sequel to Shattered Dimensions? Or is it just done by the same studio?
P.S. Chronotrigger is the greatest RPG EVER.
Not that I’m not looking forward to this as much as the next guy, as Shattered Dimensions rocked, but they’ve done multiple Spidey’s before. Sure, the whole time travel bit is new, and it does sound interesting but if they keep just making games with Multiverse Spider-Men won’t it get repetitive?
Hopefully Activision can pick up their game. That last one wasn’t quite up to snuff. Especially after Arkham Asylum set the standard.
@ccarney i got it. haha.