Spider-Verse Fans Shouldn't Ignore Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
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The wait for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse might now be longer than anticipated, with Sony recently announcing that the sequel has been delayed to 2023, but playing Beenox's underrated Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions may help in the meantime. Unlike other Spider-Man games, which have mostly been open-world since the release of 2004's Spider-Man 2, Shattered Dimensions returned to a linear format and brought four different incarnations of the wall-crawler together, taken from the pages of Spider-Man 2099, Amazing Spider-Man, Spider-Man Noir, and Ultimate Spider-Man respectively. Shattered Dimensions actually predated the original Spider-Verse comic from 2014 as well, making it somewhat ahead of its time.
Released in 2010, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions revolved around four different Spider-Men fighting across multiple dimensions to put a stop to Mysterio, who had shattered a powerful mystical tablet at the start of the story. Brought together by Madame Web, Shattered Dimensions also saw iconic Spidey voice actors from the wall-crawler's different animated shows return to voice each incarnation. Christopher Daniel Barnes — who voiced Spider-Man in Fox's iconic '90s cartoon — played Spider-Man Noir, with Neil Patrick Harris
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