

It’s a fun way to spend a weekend for those eager to experience just how much the game revels in Spider-Man’s rich tapestry of worlds and characters. It’s a short game too at around eight hours.

While it doesn’t have the enjoyable physics-based web-slinging and combat of Marvel’s Spider-Man, it makes up for it in spades with its style and story. Fortunately, each universe, and even every level within them, differ enough from each other that these elements never get too frustrating. None of its systems go too deep, and quick-time events are pretty prevalent throughout the whole campaign. That said, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions is a game of its time. Many contain memorable setpieces too, like when players view Spider-Man through the sniper scope of Kraven the Hunter and must skillfully dodge his shots. Where newer superhero games like Marvel’s Spider-Man and Marvel’s Avengers have players taking on similar-looking foes throughout the whole game, every level of Shattered Dimensions is wholly distinct, with unique enemies and bosses. They all play differently at some points too, with Spider-Man Noir leaning into stealth in his black-and-white levels and Spider-Man 2099’s stages giving players the ability to slow down time. Shattered Dimensions is full of fan service for its respective universes. Every version of Spider-Man must get these pieces of the tablet back, facing off with various characters like Kraven the Hunter, Spider-Man 2099’s Hobgoblin, the Ultimate universe’s Deadpool, and Spider-Man Noir’s Vulture. The tablet’s pieces have fallen into the hands of various villains who have used it to power themselves up. When Shattered Dimensions first came out in a pre-MCU and Miles Morales world, it felt like the Avengers Endgame for the Spider-Verse before Endgame was even a thing. After the Tablet of Order and Chaos is destroyed in a fight between Spider-Man and Mysterio, the main (Earth 616) version of Spider-Man has to work with Ultimate Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099, and Spider-Man Noir to find all of the pieces of the tablet. Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions had an ambitious premise for an Xbox 360 and PS3 licensed superhero game. Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions from Beenox and Activision turned 10 years old on September 7, and it happens to be one of the best and most important Spider-Mangames ever made. Without it, we never would've gotten 2018's fantastic animated film, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It's even getting a follow-up later this year.īut another mostly forgotten Spider-Man game celebrates many different versions of the character and gives Insomniac's game a run for its money. 2018's spectacular PS4 exclusive Marvel's Spider-Man is widely considered to be the wallcrawler's best game.
