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Spider-man: Edge of
Time
is a title that I’ve
been waiting
patiently for the
release of. After
the fantastic
Spider-man:
Shattered Dimensions,
developer Beenox and
Activision teamed up
again to make
somewhat of a sequel
with
Edge
of Time.
The biggest
difference, instead
of focusing on four
different versions
of the character
from different
Spider-man series,
this one just
focuses on two- The
Amazing Spider-Man
and Spider-Man 2099.
I’m sad to say that
this doesn’t just
fail to live up to
the standard of
Shattered Dimensions;
it’s overshadowed in
every single
conceivable way.
In
Spider-man: Edge of
Time,
our main foe is
Walker Sloan he
comes from the
Spider-man 2099 era
and he works for the
evil corporation
Alchemax. He hatches
a plan to go back in
time to the 1970’s
to start Alchemax
decades earlier than
originally so
they’re a much
larger company. That
creates two
alternate realities;
the ‘real’ where
Spider-man 2099
Miguel O’hara isn’t
quite able to stop
Walker Sloanfrom
creating the
alternate reality,
and the alternate
reality where Peter
Parker- Amazing
Spider-man is the
same Parker but has
several different
things going for
him. It’s a tad
confusing (I hate
time theories and
conundrums in all
forms of
entertainment.) And
it’s just an
uninteresting story.
Spider-man:
Shattered Dimensions
is easily the better
game out of the two,
not just on the
story front but
every imaginable
front. The voice
acting was better,
the sound and the
score was better,
the controls and the
gameplay were
better, and most of
all, it looked
awesome. The four
different Spider-man
universes tied
together made
something that
looked amazing and
was fun to switch
back and forth to
not only follow the
story, but to see
which villain was
coming up next. This
time you get strange
alternates of
enemies and two
Spider-men that are
only different in
voice acting with
slight variations in
power.
It’s
just an inferior
game to the last
outing from Beenox
and Activision.
The
campaign mode in
Edge
of Time
will take a few
hours to get through
but like the other
recent Marvel
release, X-Men:
Dimensions, it’s a
lot of button
mashing and
repetitive play.
There’s no real
variety to what’s
going on in the
campaign, just
progression to a
story that’s not all
that interesting.
Spider-man: Edge of
time
is a disappointment
in comparison to
Spider-man:
Shattered Dimensions.
The last release
from Beenox and
Activision was
captivating and
entertaining and fun
to play and follow,
this one is dull and
monotonous in
comparison. It’s not
a waste of time if
you’re a Spider-Man
game fan, but you
still probably want
to wait a few months
and a price drop to
check this out.
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