And the all-too-rare boss battles often come up short. Faceless thugs and countless robots get in your way, all eventually punched into oblivion. Often a hero is measured by his villains, and were you to do that with Edge of Time, Peter would look lame indeed. Perhaps every Spider-Man game doesn’t need to be open world, but swinging down narrow hallways and boxed-in rooms hardly takes advantage of all the character can do. And the levels feel so claustrophobic, which is the exact opposite of what this hero needs. Just find out what two or three objectives you need to complete to open a door, do them, open said door, then move on to the next square area. It just happens along certain story beats, as it falls in with the overall linear feel of the game. It’s true that areas are often lit by purple light that shifts the stage around you, but you have virtually no control over it. Though some new special moves are thrown in, it’s at best dependable and vanilla Spider-Action.Įdge of Time’s gimmick of changes in the timeline affecting different levels also didn’t pay off as well as it could have. Using what looks to be basically the same engine as Shattered Dimensions, both Spideys swing, wall crawl, punch, and thwip webs well enough, but it never really feels like Spidey. Other devs pretty much perfected controlling Spider-Man years ago, so developer Beenox simply picks up the torch and goes with it. The script (partially written by experienced comics scribe and Spider-Man 2099 co-creator Peter David) gets the characterization of the Spider-Men correct, though they fail to play as naturally as they speak. Though the sci-fi plot makes little sense when the least bit of reason is applied, clever dialogue shared between the bickering Spideys helpfully distracts from the nonsensical story. Good thing future Spidey found a seemingly illogical way to communicate with current day Spider-Man so they can work together across fluctuating timelines to correct the chronological wrongs, including the fact that Peter Parker will die in a matter of hours. The trouble begins when a 2099 tech industrialist (voiced by Val Kilmer) sends himself back in time to conquer corporations in the past using his future knowledge, creating an even more dystopian future than Spider-Man 2099 is used to.
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