The Amazing Spider-Man is going to die. Don’t worry true believers, it’s only in a video game and not the “real life” in-continuity comic book.
Activision and the Developers from Beenox have teamed up to bring gamers another Spider-Man game for 2011. Following up last year’s Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Activision will be releasing Spider-Man: Edge of Time. The game takes place between the times of the present day Amazing Spider-Man story and the future Spider-Man 2099. Peter David, creator of Spidey 2099, assisted Beenox in coming up with the story so that Miguel O’Hara’s more “selfish” side could come out in this new title.
The game starts off with Spider-Man 2099 learning about the death of Amazing Spider-Man. So, naturally, he wants to save his historical counterpart. Each character has the ability to affect the world of the other Spidey.
In this interview, we discuss the new game with Beenox Creative Director Gerard Lehiany. He talks about the decision to create a new Spider-Man game, upgrades in gameplay (including modifications in the camera movements for when you wall-crawl and the new holographic decoy) and the new Picture-in-Picture combat system. He also goes over one of the robot battles in the demo, where the Amazing Spider-Man takes down a robot prototype so that Spider-Man 2099 doesn’t have to face it in the future.
Interview with Spider-Man: Edge of Time Creative Director Gerard Lehiany
