Be Excited For Spiderman: Dimensions Because...

Ever since "Spider-Man 2" rocked the gaming world in 2004 on PS2, GameCube and Xbox, no game based on the web-slinging hero has managed to top that excellent experience of casting cobwebs as grappling lines throughout New York (though some efforts like "Web Of Shadows" have come close). Somewhat predictably, then, Beenox Studios have decided to take the Spidey-verse to new places, giving us not one Spider-Man story to play through in "Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions", but four. Thankfully we won't have to choose simply between four different titles on the menu screen: the experiences are intertwined between four 'dimensions', three of which have already been revealed. The first and most obvious is that of "Amazing Spider-Man", starring the classic red and blue tights-clad web-slinger we all know and love in recognisably comic environments like jungles and urban cities: here we can expect a normal Spidey experience of swinging and fighting, but with 1st-person boss battles against classic enemies like Kraven. Next is "Spider-Man Noir", an experience not unlike "Batman: Arkham Asylum" in that it will see our web-slinger using the shadows to strike fear in enemies and ultimately take them out, with stealth heavily needed to take down fearsome gun-slingers such as Hammerhead. Finally for the revealed dimensions, there's "Spider-Man 2099": set in the future, this will mostly revolve around air combat, with fights against Scorpion and the Green Goblin already confirmed to take place while falling from a skyscraper. So far, we don't know how deep each experience will be, but nonetheless expect greatness from at least one dimension in this game coming out September, and look out for the fourth dimension reveal next Monday!