It does seem rather odd to have so much gaming news coming out of a comic convention, but a little over a month after E3 the San Diego Comic-Con is providing us with a wealth of gaming news. Odd as it may be, at least this piece of news does have a connection to comic books. That’s right the game that is narrowly beating Halo: Reach as my most anticipated game of the year, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, has had three new cinematics appear at the show.
First up are two twenty second cinematics which show off the Spider-Man 2099 dimension, as well as the newly unveiled Ultimate Spider-Man section of the game. Neither of these really show off much of the game, although we do get an explanation for Ultimate Spidey’s use of the black suit in the game.
Both of the short cinematics look good and show off the very distinctive art styles employed by each of the dimensions. I would have liked to have seen more of the Ultimate version of the web-head, but I’m pretty happy with what their showing for now. Hopefully we’ll see more of this high school variation of the character before the game’s release in September.
More interestingly the whole of the game’s opening cinematic was shown, sporting a voice over from the legendary Stan Lee. Having Stan involved in any Marvel project can only be a good thing, and his narration in the cut-scene is absolutely brilliant, as are the voices for Spider-Man and Mysterio. The only sour note in the trailer is that it does make the game’s plot seem rather simplistic, but hopefully they’ll be some twists along the way to keep players engaged.
Small issue aside these new cinematics have only fuelled our desire for the game to new heights. Do these new videos make you excited as we at TSA are?
And yes there is something odd with the audio, it sounds like GameTrailers captured the audio from a microphone rather than having a direct feed.
