We're able to glean more information from December's trailer, of course, but if the first screenshot wasn't going to be action-packed, at least it could have been artistic.
First screenshot of The Amazing Spider-Man is pretty boring
by Jessica Conditt 
on Jan 30th 2012 4:00PM
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We're able to glean more information from December's trailer, of course, but if the first screenshot wasn't going to be action-packed, at least it could have been artistic.
Reader Comments (64)
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:04PM eat it said
dang. I was thinking that's a pretty nice looking screenshot when I first saw it
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:09PM Shadowbender said
@eat it
Agreed. Pretty vibrant visualization. Very Mirror's Edge, as said below.
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Agreed. Pretty vibrant visualization. Very Mirror's Edge, as said below.
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 8:48PM Liquidfingers said
@eat it
i agree, but apparently the writer of this article wants it to be more like the impending movie...which is probably not a good thing.
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i agree, but apparently the writer of this article wants it to be more like the impending movie...which is probably not a good thing.
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 8:59PM Landosystem said
@eat it I agree. I've read dozens of articles on this site about how the spiderman games all suck now because they don't have an open big city swinging through skyscrapers feeling. Now they complain when the first screen points to delivering just that. I think the writers of this site just like whining.
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Posted: Jan 31st 2012 1:52AM ThatGuyFromTV said
@Shadowbender Actually, Mirror's Edge was the first thing I thought of too, and I'm not sure if I like that. Feels a bit too stark or sterile for Spider-man. I would think that they would want to add some "pop" to the city's flavor, try to make it more vibrant. You know what I mean?
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:05PM TreeFoxx said
Mirror's Edge 2?
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:25PM Mujokan said
@TreeFoxx
There was a kind of comparison video made a while ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpZFHcOjAUc
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There was a kind of comparison video made a while ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpZFHcOjAUc
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:07PM kmcroc said
WTF That don't even look like NYC.
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 8:22PM CamelCamelCamel said
@eliteghost Aha, you thought when they said Spider-Man would clean up the city, they were speaking metaphorically! You'll be blown away by the scrubbing QTE missions.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:08PM kentuckyfried said
I like the suit. Hopefully the game plays like the ps2 spider-man game that everybody seems to love.
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:09PM KungFuChaosNinja said
Just wondering, is this the Wii version? The buildings are very bland and poorly detailed. Almost Prototype level of bland.
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:20PM Coco Bananas said
@KungFuChaosNinja No, it's the "oh shit Activision only gave us 9 months to create a scale version of New York" version.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:10PM (Unverified) said
I'm just glad everything looks properly open again for a spider-man game. Last ones felt way too claustrophobic for a character designed as he is.
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:10PM mywhitenoise said
"boring"
Dude dressed up in a costume, looking over an active city...I'd love to see your idea of an entertaining night.
Dude dressed up in a costume, looking over an active city...I'd love to see your idea of an entertaining night.
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:11PM Xero Theory said
Am I the only one not looking forward to this relaunch? As hit or miss as toby mcquires version was it satisfied my spiderman movie penchant. They should of focused on another hero instead of relaunching a franchise that was already huge in the last ten years.
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 6:33PM Adeio said
@eat it
I believe the reason for them doing a reboot has to do with the Avengers movie. The original Spidey movies weren't actually based in the "Marvel Universe" like the other hero movies were. This leads me to suspect that they are going to have him in the Avengers 2 whenever it comes out. Afterall Spiderman did join the Avengers kinda late in some of the comics as well.
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I believe the reason for them doing a reboot has to do with the Avengers movie. The original Spidey movies weren't actually based in the "Marvel Universe" like the other hero movies were. This leads me to suspect that they are going to have him in the Avengers 2 whenever it comes out. Afterall Spiderman did join the Avengers kinda late in some of the comics as well.
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 8:14PM CamelCamelCamel said
@Adeio Unfortunately, that's not the case. Columbia still owns the film rights to Spider-Man, and Fox still owns the film rights for the Fantastic Four and the X-Men. Every time you hear a Fox announcement about a new Fantastic Four film (which happens every couple of years), it's just to renew their claim on the property. They're just sitting on it so no one else can have any success with it.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 8:17PM Ericss said
@eat it
After hearing Raimi's plans for Spider-Man 4 (the boring and lame Vulture would have been the main villain, and Felicia Hardy would be in it as his daughter, the Vulturess, rather than the Black Cat), I'm really glad SM4 didn't get produced. I would say we dodged a bullet.
Plus, Raimi bastardized Venom. With the reboot, we have a chance to see Eddie done right.
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After hearing Raimi's plans for Spider-Man 4 (the boring and lame Vulture would have been the main villain, and Felicia Hardy would be in it as his daughter, the Vulturess, rather than the Black Cat), I'm really glad SM4 didn't get produced. I would say we dodged a bullet.
Plus, Raimi bastardized Venom. With the reboot, we have a chance to see Eddie done right.
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 8:47PM Liquidfingers said
@CamelCamelCamel
such a shame. it would be great if Marvel were able to make movies with all their properties. i take it the new shitfest known as Ghostrider 2 is also not an official Marvel movie?
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such a shame. it would be great if Marvel were able to make movies with all their properties. i take it the new shitfest known as Ghostrider 2 is also not an official Marvel movie?
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:11PM Vic Fontaine said
Dull screenshot for a dull character/game. Don't see the problem, it's not like this is Batman.
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:30PM blessrok said
@Vic Fontaine imho Arkham City left me feeling unsatisfied. I'm not sure what it was missing, but it was something huge, because by the end credits I felt like I didn't have the best time of my life. I think I had more fun with Arkham Asylum.
Anyways, I don't think Spiderman is boring and as long as this is open world (like everyone's mentioned) and in the vein of Spiderman 2 then I'm all for it.
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Anyways, I don't think Spiderman is boring and as long as this is open world (like everyone's mentioned) and in the vein of Spiderman 2 then I'm all for it.
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:14PM TubaDude49 said
He appears to not be restrained to the interior of an office building...
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:15PM Roto13 said
The real question is "Is it going to be open world?" These games are never *that* great but at least the open world ones are fun to web swing around.
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:22PM GlockXIII said
His suit looks like it was made out of basket balls.
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:29PM Vic Fontaine said
@GlockXIII
Beat me to it, that's exactly what I was thinking. For a superhero who is supposed to make his clothes in his room in his mom's (or is it aunt?) basement, that doesn't look right at all.
Also the webbing on the suit is red, not black. Wow.
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Beat me to it, that's exactly what I was thinking. For a superhero who is supposed to make his clothes in his room in his mom's (or is it aunt?) basement, that doesn't look right at all.
Also the webbing on the suit is red, not black. Wow.
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:23PM sammo21 said
Even though I think the movie looks terrible I do want a good open world Spider-Man game. Hopefully they make sure to add alternate costumes :p
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:26PM Vic Fontaine said
@sammo21
Does this even need to be said? You know they will, and you know that they'll be unlockable at only $4.99 apiece!
Pissed me off when Arkham City was like that, but at least that was a good game/character (though in some ways that makes it worse).
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Does this even need to be said? You know they will, and you know that they'll be unlockable at only $4.99 apiece!
Pissed me off when Arkham City was like that, but at least that was a good game/character (though in some ways that makes it worse).
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 8:20PM CamelCamelCamel said
@Vic Fontaine I get *enjoying* Batman more than Spider-Man (I think I do, too), but Batman a better *character* than Spider-Man? At this point, "brooding vigilante" is as generic as a character can get. In fact, I'd argue that the shallowness of the Batman character is why he makes such a good video game avatar -- he's enough of a cipher that the player can project himself onto him.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:24PM Catalyst691 said
Was hoping for something like Arkham City... :P
Rocksteady would make a Spidey game that does him justice
Rocksteady would make a Spidey game that does him justice
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:25PM TraceurRyuk Part III said
I'm kind of hoping this is the "Arkham Asylum" of Spiderman games. But that's probably not gonna happen. At all.
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:34PM OGC said
Looks like someone put Spider Man in Mirror's Edge universe.
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 5:15PM (Unverified) said
Marvel might have a better grasp on the movie space (except the Batman movies which are the best overall) but DC totally has them beat in the gaming realm. DC got that comic book related gamesHAVE TO STOP BEING BASED ON MOVIES. This causes unecessary deadlines and poor final products. Also, they have to stop using Activision and Sega fro their games, as all the marvel games these guys produced have been failures. The best spiderman game of the last 5 years was worse that any mediocre action platformer.
DC already announced that going forward, all the studios will focus on comic based games (not movie) to ensure the best quality possible.
DC already announced that going forward, all the studios will focus on comic based games (not movie) to ensure the best quality possible.
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 8:52PM Liquidfingers said
@(Unverified)
if i recall correctly, Superman 64 is highly regarded as one of the worst video games ever made...ever. so yeah, not sure i agree with you. there have been some pretty cool Marvel games, just nothing on the same level as Batman.
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if i recall correctly, Superman 64 is highly regarded as one of the worst video games ever made...ever. so yeah, not sure i agree with you. there have been some pretty cool Marvel games, just nothing on the same level as Batman.
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 9:41PM (Unverified) said
@Liquidfingers
and @ Ericss
stop being Marvel fanboys, get your facts straight and don't rehash ages old game examples.
In case you don't know, WB opened a studio in Montreal (north America's gaming capital) with the sole purpose of developing AAA DC comics franchise games based on the comics, not the movies or animated series. This new studio, along with Rocksteady, will rock the comic based gaming space. Using superman 64 as an example of bad gaming is idiotic at this point.The game came out 2 generations ago!! Marvel's NEW games are utter thrash. I don't know what's worse between the horrible Spiderman, xmen, Thor or iron man games. the last OK game they released was xmen legends.
To be fair, i'm a huge fan of marvel vs capcom, but that game is an exception and marvel went out of their way to try and ruin it by including crap "current" characters instead of fan favorites like Venom and Cyclops.
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and @ Ericss
stop being Marvel fanboys, get your facts straight and don't rehash ages old game examples.
In case you don't know, WB opened a studio in Montreal (north America's gaming capital) with the sole purpose of developing AAA DC comics franchise games based on the comics, not the movies or animated series. This new studio, along with Rocksteady, will rock the comic based gaming space. Using superman 64 as an example of bad gaming is idiotic at this point.The game came out 2 generations ago!! Marvel's NEW games are utter thrash. I don't know what's worse between the horrible Spiderman, xmen, Thor or iron man games. the last OK game they released was xmen legends.
To be fair, i'm a huge fan of marvel vs capcom, but that game is an exception and marvel went out of their way to try and ruin it by including crap "current" characters instead of fan favorites like Venom and Cyclops.
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 10:13PM (Unverified) said
@(Unverified)
X-Men Legends 1 and 2, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Spiderman-2, Web of Shadows, and to a lesser extent Shattered Dimensions, recent Captain America, Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, and X-men origins: Wolverine.
All pretty decent games.
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X-Men Legends 1 and 2, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Spiderman-2, Web of Shadows, and to a lesser extent Shattered Dimensions, recent Captain America, Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, and X-men origins: Wolverine.
All pretty decent games.
Posted: Jan 30th 2012 10:37PM (Unverified) said
@(Unverified)
xmen legends was good but it's last gen. DC also had a similar Justice League that was even better but once again, last gen. Lets try to stick to games from the last 5 years at least. The Ultimate alliance games rehashed last gen engines, the last 2 Spiderman games from Beenox were bad and worse (and i really wanted games featuring spidey 2099 to be good). Wolverine was ok but again, like Spiderman, these are low-end adventure games. if they weren't starring heroes you like, you'd never even consider playing them. Your low standards is what allows Marvel to get away with licensing garbage games
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xmen legends was good but it's last gen. DC also had a similar Justice League that was even better but once again, last gen. Lets try to stick to games from the last 5 years at least. The Ultimate alliance games rehashed last gen engines, the last 2 Spiderman games from Beenox were bad and worse (and i really wanted games featuring spidey 2099 to be good). Wolverine was ok but again, like Spiderman, these are low-end adventure games. if they weren't starring heroes you like, you'd never even consider playing them. Your low standards is what allows Marvel to get away with licensing garbage games
Posted: Jan 31st 2012 12:40AM Liquidfingers said
@(Unverified)
sure, i am a Marvel fanboy (did the icon give it away?) but it's not like i hate DC. to be honest, i have been falling in love with graphic novels all over again simply because of all the awesome stuff on Vertigo that i somehow missed out on. all i was trying to say is that, besides Batman: AA and AC, there is nothing that DC really has going for it in the gaming sector, and even their old games are exceptionally bad.
from what i've heard pretty much unanimously, DC Universe is a complete disaster of an MMO game, and sure i've heard talk of this new DC studio, but i'll believe the hype when i see the quality games. thus far, i'm just speaking about games on the whole, and in that regard, Marvel has a larger amount of decent to good games, while DC has two fantastic ones with the same hero. due to how much i enjoyed those two fantastic games, i'm willing to say that DC is doing better game-wise, but i'm not really willing to say that they have anything else going for them besides Batman, and pretty soon they're going to need it. in the meantime, i'll just be over here waiting for Marvel to put out something as good as the Batman games...
one can only hope, right?
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sure, i am a Marvel fanboy (did the icon give it away?) but it's not like i hate DC. to be honest, i have been falling in love with graphic novels all over again simply because of all the awesome stuff on Vertigo that i somehow missed out on. all i was trying to say is that, besides Batman: AA and AC, there is nothing that DC really has going for it in the gaming sector, and even their old games are exceptionally bad.
from what i've heard pretty much unanimously, DC Universe is a complete disaster of an MMO game, and sure i've heard talk of this new DC studio, but i'll believe the hype when i see the quality games. thus far, i'm just speaking about games on the whole, and in that regard, Marvel has a larger amount of decent to good games, while DC has two fantastic ones with the same hero. due to how much i enjoyed those two fantastic games, i'm willing to say that DC is doing better game-wise, but i'm not really willing to say that they have anything else going for them besides Batman, and pretty soon they're going to need it. in the meantime, i'll just be over here waiting for Marvel to put out something as good as the Batman games...
one can only hope, right?
