The game featured four playable versions of Spider-Man across the Amazing, Noir, 2099 and Ultimate universes alongside voicework from Neil Patrick Harris and writing by Dan Slott. Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions was originally released on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, Wii and DS in 2010. RELATED: Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Gets the Legends Treatment The aim of the remasters was reportedly nothing substantial, however, with the source saying the games would be close to their original 20 versions, featuring only "minor graphical enhancements/bugfixes." In fact, the source even described the projects as a "quick money-maker" that was intended to leach off the hype surrounding Insomniac's then-upcoming Spider-Man title for the PlayStation 4.
Some early assets, such as menus and button icons with higher resolution textures was as far as the team seemed to have gotten in the games' development. The chances of these Shattered Dimensions or Edge of Time remasters seeing the light of day appear slim, unfortunately, as the source explained only small teams were able to extract old source code from hard drives before the projects were canceled. RELATED: How Spider-Man: Web of Shadows PERFECTS One Crucial Spider-Man Mechanic Yet, the deal ultimately fell through when Activision pushed for the rights to develop new Marvel games, and so no deal was ever officially signed.
Marvel was initially on board, according to the source, with Activision going so far as to begin "early prototyping" on Shattered Dimensions/Edge of Time remasters. While the publisher's Marvel license expired in 2014, several years later Activision attempted to regain Marvel's interest with a deal that would see digital versions of some of the publisher's older titles relisted, such as Ultimate Alliance 1 and 2. Although nearly a decade has passed since Activision lost its license to develop Marvel video games, two of the publisher's final Spider-Man titles were apparently on the verge of receiving modern remasters.Īccording to an anonymous source at Activision via Reddit user armoredadvanced, both Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions and Spider-Man: Edge of Time were reportedly set to be remastered on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Switch.
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