Video Shows Unreleased Spider-Man 4 Tie-In Game Footage
Spider-Man is currently a mainstay in pop culture of all sorts, from his origins in comic books to movies and, yes, to video games. Marvel's Spider-Man and Miles Morales were well received by fans, with some speculating about the symbiote suit in future Spider-Man games.
With all that said, Spider-Man's future has not always been certian on the big screen and, consequently, in video games. The original Spider-Man film trilogy came to an ignominious end with Spider-Man 3, the fourth planned film from Sam Raimi being cancelled and reworked into The Amazing Spider-Man. Similarly, the fourth tie-in movie game was also cancelled and remained completely buried until, recently, footage of it surfaced on YouTube.
Footage from an early build of Spider-Man 4's tie-in game is available on YouTube now. This no doubt comes as a shock to some, since the fourht movie's semi-existence and tie-in game are things few people know about the Raimi Spider-Man films. The video is just shy of twenty minutes long and doesn't show all that much, mostly just moving Spider-Man around Manhattan. It's obvious the game is still in the early stages of its development at just a glance.
Many textures are missing from the game, making it look like a canvas without paint in many places, even the skyscrapers appearing particularly grey and featureless. This is most amusing on the NPCs, who walk around as human shaped grey blobs, even though they do have distinct voices. At one point, Spider-Man pauses on the sidewalk and many unfinished NPCs and several palette swaps of one finished NPC crowd around him, cheering him on. For all that's unfinished, the web swinging mechanics seem to function perfectly. It's interesting to think that this is what many of the best Spider-Man games looked like at one point.
The model of the city itself is mostly complete, with a few notable holes in the ground. This is in large part because it was re-purposed from the model in Prototype, which also took place in Manhattan. Supposedly the unused model was then turned around and used again for Prototype 2. These days, comparisons between the Batman: Arkham series' combat and Marvel's Spider-Man's combat is common, but judging by the footage, the combat in Spider-Man 4 would have followed its predecessors faithfully: simple and satisfying.
It's impossible to tell from this early stage how well Spider-Man 4 would have landed upon its release. The tie-in games for the Raimi Spider-Man films were famously hit or miss, but these days Spider-Man's place in video games is solid. So solid in fact that for many, Marvel's Spider-Man is a better MCU video game entry point than Marvel's Avengers.
Source: Gamerant
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