More Costumes Will Save this Game

I remember back in the day when all I used to play was Spider-Man the game on my Nintendo 64 and collecting secret comics which I believe where the key to unlocking some secret costumes for the game. They sort of enhanced the gameplay in any way when you do unlock them, but hopefully (and for its sake) for Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions that the gameplay will be more significantly enhanced. In order to get some of the costumes you have to buy them from specific retailers in order to gain the costume. At Amazon you get the Tony Stark Iron Spider-Man suit:

Thing with this costume is that its only for use in the Spider-Man 2099 universe. I think that's how its going to be with most costumes unfortunately. Its still pretty neat though. Here’s what you get at GameStop:

You get Cosmic Spider-Man! This one has an interesting feature to it. I haven’t seen if the Iron suit can do this, but apparently this one has different variations to it. This one is also used for the Noir universe for some odd reason. Although, it does create this interesting variation for Noir:

Its creates a dark blue color on the suit, with the Cosmic Spider-Man, I guess, “cosmic lines?” However you call it. Its still a cool variation. There's also this variation which may be a new look.

Just a few minutes ago these new costumes were announced for K-Mart and Best Buy. K-Mart isn’t that bad now really. Its becoming more gamer friendly lately. Here’s the K-Mart Exclusive suit:

Yep, its the Ben Reilly (or Scarlet Spider) suit. Nothing really new or anything sort of amazing really. If most people don’t know this particular Spider-Man character by now, here’s a short history on the character: Ben Reilly is actually a clone of Peter Parker and took the mantle of Spider-Man for a while, first in his Scarlet Spider suit and then as the actual Spider-Man suit. He took the mantle when Parker had to retire for a short time to take care of his unborn child. If you want more just go to the Wikipedia page. You probably use this suit in the Classic Spider-Man universe.

Now lets move on to Best Buys exclusive:

Little is known (to my knowledge) of the Negative Zone Spider-Man. Its probably some alternate universe type of thing where Spidey has a black suit sans the alien symbiote. This is probably used in the Classic Universe as well. I actually don’t really know why they wouldn’t release classic black suit symbiote spidey instead of this. Activision makes some weird decisions.

But wait, that’s not all? Some more suits will be unlockable in the game. You may be pleasantly surprised about one of these suits. Its not known wither you have to download these or they will just be made available later on in the game, but I do hope its the latter:

I’ve seen this before. I don’t know anything about it exactly, I just know it may be used in the Spider-Man 2099 universe. The future is all about armor.

Wow, this is a surprise. Even if I wont be able to go to the Spider-Man Mangaverse having him as a playable character is still as good. You get to play him in the (unfortunate) Ultimate Spider-Man Universe. Its interesting since I just mentioned this to Activision yesterday about they should have tried for the Mangaverse Spidey. Bravo Activision for trying. You guys still suck though.

¡¿Por Que?!

Yeah I’m pretty sure it works that way. I totally had to go Spanish on all of you for this one. The reason is because recently an update has been made for a game. After hearing it, I don’t think I’ve been so disappointed in an announcement in ever really. (Epic Mickey?) Oh, yeah…what I meant to say is: This is the most disappointing game announcement ever since Epic Mickey. I guess its better, but more to the point. I’ve been pretty excited for a little game called Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions and the announcements so far have been pretty awesome. We got classic Spidey, Noir Spidey, and Spider-Man 2099 all in the game. 3 different dimensions so far and my bar was really high for the game. Even a few days ago this was announced:

Yeah Juggernaut was announced as a villain, pretty rad (I have no idea either), even though they probably have shown his whole appearance in this trailer; its still a nice addition. And now just yesterday Activision announced the fourth dimension and it is…..the Ultimate Universe. I’m sorry, but what?

Sure, you play as black suit spidey, but its so disappointing since there’s so many missed opportunities here. I mean this could have been Ultimate Spider-Man 2 for god sakes, it was an Xbox and PS2 game before. This should have never happened. I really had high hopes for this, but this really takes it down a lot of notches for me. There’s so many ways they could have gone with this. I would have been happy with any of these: Spider-Girl universe, Marvel Zombies Universe, or someone even mentioned a steam punk universe. Steam Punk, Activision. You guys feeling bad over there yet? Oh yeah, you already got problems…No. You know what. You guys deserve it. The Modern Warfare trail and other stuff. There I said it. Man, is Activision really dropping the ball lately. Even Spider-Ham may have been better than this…well maybe not. You know what would have been good? Spider-Man Manga universe. That would have been sweet. Probably couldn’t be done though. At least try Activision.

Pictures are owned by IGN.

Deadpool, Deadpool minions, and symbiote suit soften the blow, its still a pretty big blow though. Apparently Carnage is a villain somewhere in the Ultimate Universe as well. I won’t be playing this as soon as I thought. I won’t expect to buy this on September 7, 2010 when it swings around.

Sorry, Activision made me mad…Comic-Con will cheer me up.