Is Spider-Man: Edge Of Time REALLY That Bad?!

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As we near the release of Into The Spiderverse 2, it's time to start digging through the most "Spiderverse" kind of games that we can find! Starting things off a little more controversial, let's sink our team into Edge Of Time. A Spider-Man game that has a high-stakes story yet is reviewed poorly. Why is that? Let's have a lookie and find out!
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[@thegoldavenger.3829]

I had no idea that it was even considered bad

[@Slavic_Snake]

you must have been living under a rock then

[@thegoldavenger.3829]

@@Slavic_Snake No, I played it multiple times. Granted I was a little stupid baby child, but still I remember it being fun

[@mhutch5082]

​@@thegoldavenger.3829 Nah its been trash

[@duaneashley8194]

That’s what I’m saying!! Like, I’m baffled people think this is bad. I adore this game so much!

[@hanaya5409]

Mostly because it's scaled down compared to Shattered Dimensions. Also, the way how the plot goes on the second half of the story didn't help.

[@JakeTheHuman1]

I personally liked Edge of Time better than Shattered Dimensions. The tone was darker and the voices for Miguel and Peter just worked better.

[@Spider_Mike023]

Yea how I felt at time too. Shift focus from 4 to 2 to narrow focus and make it better, add in a darker story to bring both spideys together. Was a solid idea for game in grand scheme.

[@hauntedbylight]

Definitely. They have great chemistry

[@frightenedmule194]

This game had a fast development time, I think 6 months or 1 year (I can't remember) because they were forced to make it as fast as possible by Activision. They were originally gonna make Shattered Dimensions 2 but didn't have enough time. Ironic with the time theme with Edge of Time.

[@MadDragonify]

Game released 13 months after Shattered Dimensions, then a year later the 2012 movie game by Beenox

[@culixul]

@@MadDragonifyeah Beenox been pretty under pressure, I wonder how good of a spiderman game they could made if they had 3 years development time or even 4

[@IJADSHORTS]

They had limited the time in development so they couldn't exactly put more into the combat system or add more characters

[@-....L]

also low budget

[@michaelchapman454]

I really enjoyed this game as a kid I had no clue that it reviewed poorly

[@coocoollama64]

Edge of Time is one of the top 3 Spider-Man games of mine. The story I loved, and the art style in the cinematics is still SO BEAUTIFUL. This and Shattered Dimensions are actually the reasons for Spider-Men (comic) and those branching multiversal crossovers, so they deserve even more praise for that ALONE. All in all, this would've been SO MUCH BETTER as a graphic novel instead of a game, the story has so much potential and the artwork is SO fantastic

[@j.j.9675]

No. No it is not. It is a beautiful blend of awesomeness.

[@nota_soul5927]

Still in my top 5 Spider-man Games. Great dialogue, interesting level design, and 2 distinct spidermen. If only it wasn't so undermined by Shattered Dimensions, I feel like people would've appreciated it more...

[@Jeanssj98]

its a very mediocre game, there is a lot of better spider games

[@jeremyroberts8822]

I liked the story of edge of time but the gameplay itself just felt super repetitive, by the time I got just like halfway through I was already getting pretty bored with the combat personally. And I hated the level design, how linear it was and samey a lot of the levels looked

[@Xone9]

This game has my hands down favorite incarnation of Peter's classic red and blue suit. The asymmetrical web patterns look like actual spiderwebs covering the red parts of the suit.

[@GoldenProxyy]

I think part of the reason the game is as fun as it is is because of the dialogue between Peter and Miguel. The dialogue was written by comic legend Peter David and I think the dialogue shows his love for the characters. He actually created Spider-Man 2099 and wrote the title for ages.

[@Mistersupafly]

he also wrote for Hulk back in the 90s absolute legend.

[@georgeperezleon3387]

I played that game like 15 years ago, and maybe it's because I still was a little kid, but the memory I got of the game is really fond. I begged my parents to get me one copy but at the end I could only rent one at the Blockbuster when it was still a thing and I liked it . . . even more than Shatter Dimensions XS

[@Dhampir101980]

Beenox wanted the game out ASAP, so the development time for it was only a year and a half. The original pitch and ideas for the game were much bigger in scope. The channel “ Always Nerdy” did a 90 minute video on the behind the scenes creation of the game and he even interviewed one of project director. Check it out. His videos are extremely informative and fun

[@culixul]

I dont think beenox necessarily wanted the game out asap, more like Activision but ok

[@-....L]

@@culixul yes activision wanetd it asap they could have gave them more time and budget atleast

[@zpamdraws1246]

3ds port was impressive, even if it was the wii version, its still impressive they had basically the same game on all platforms aside from DS.

[@retrorebound8887]

I had no idea this existed. Thanks for pointing it out!

[@OODLESMCBOODELS]

It had a ds port as well it was a 2d side scroller.

[@FireBat984]

I liked this game but it wasn't as good as Shattered Dimensions. I be having trouble with the free fall parts in the game.

[@WebMasterGG]

Damn I had zero idea this game was considered bad. The funny thing is its my favorite non open world spiderman game.

[@NadeemShekh-uy9zn]

Insomniac needs to make a spider-man 2099 game

[@JacksGameReviews]

Come on Matt you already know the answer :D it's not great but it's far from bad! Edit: Never mind lmao I think I like it more than most lmao

[@IsaiahJohnson-yu9ci]

We need more Spider-Man games and a remasters in the future

[@handoffate7262]

I didn’t know this game had a bad rep. I played it when it came out and I remember really liking it. The atrocity boss fight brought me right back to monster Ock from the ps1 Spider-Man.

[@TheWall-CrawlingQubone]

I refuse to hate edge of time, but it's coming up on my own retrospective, and I have to admit... I'm nervous

[@brobequiet]

this was my favorite ps3 spider-man game

[@dagon7259]

It's amazing how 90% of the video can be answered with a simple "They were rushed" like, it only took them 1 year or less for development.

[@NadeemShekh-uy9zn]

This game does a great job adapting spider-man 2099

[@cignet]

Thank you so much for covering our game ☺️

[@Shift_Salt]

I love the writing in the game, shame Activision doesn't let projects meet their full potential.

[@Spider_Mike023]

I thoroughly enjoyed this game. Yea swinging limited being mostly indoors, combat can get repetive, but felt like the story was pretty interesting and ambitious at the time. Wasn’t worth going for 100% completion but was def a solid game. 2099 had best some good representation in it too I felt. Liked his trademark free fall sections returning again, like watching his character arc. Still hits me as most memorable thing was when they get swapped in each others universes Parker begs him to help MJ and he doesn’t really wanna cause it’d have nothing to do fixing the timeline but he ends realizing she’s means a lot to him and just maybe it does so you save her and he has a little conversation with her carrying her to safety. O’Hara was done very well and I loved him more by end of it and he was a spidey I didn’t know much on prior to the game.

[@wijinsama]

I will always say this, gaming communities expect TOO MUCH for every new game entry. Yeah, Edge of Time came after Shattered Dimensions but why stupidily think every new SM game after would have more playable Spider-Men...that ridiculous. Plus not every new Spider-Man game or games in general needs to be like the last or add more. Just like how fans are crying about Insomniac not adding harder swinging mechanics...like dude the swinging mechanics we have bow is great. Why change that isnt broken

[@NadeemShekh-uy9zn]

Spider-Man friend or foe is going to be a fun retro rebound episode that game is apeshit crazy

[@JoeNayDoh]

The fact that we got any good Spider-Man games during the late 2000's/early 2010's is kind of shocking if you think about it. After the Raimi game trilogy has finished, Activision was seriously trying to make Spider-Man games a yearly release. Friend of Foe was the same year as Spider-Man 3 with Web of Shadows a year later. Shattered Dimensions had a little more time to cook thankfully with two years, but then Edge of Time and Amazing Spider-Man came out the next two years. The rate they were going; Spider-Man would have gotten some kind of live service game if the license was still with Activision.

[@datniggafloppy9822]

on the contrary, i think the writing and dialogue in this game is the best part about it. This game prolly has one kf the most comic accurate peter and miguel. it makes sense peter wouldnt care about miguels warning when he knows people might need help in all of the destruction. Gettin mad mj is gonna die in the past, etc. Its all very believable, aswell as peter and miguels dynamic being really good the way they play off of eachother showing the similarities and differences between their respective spidermen

[@deathswirl]

The change is art direction is probably because they were experimenting because they weren't happy with Shattered Dimensions sales.. the art style change doesn't really accomodate sharing of assets between games.. it's as simple as that.

[@AlfredFJones1776]

I need a review of Ghost Rider on PS2.

[@FueledFromFiction]

4:05 you really did… shit is upwards of $150 by now, so ridiculous. 🤦‍♀️

[@weaponxi6151]

Let's not forget that NBA 2K11 (arguably the greatest sports game ever made), also came out the same year. This game was buried by the goats

[@statesminds]

I swear I thought I’ve seen you do this video already lol I’m guess crazy. Edge of Time decent imo

[@-....L]

as a kid i played this and the cover of the game was all broken and no manual so i never had the change to see the full cover and manual thanks for showing me

[@safariatari1094]

I really can't agree with any of the criticisms you have, other than the upgrade tree being bad. The story for the game is fantastic, judging it against this idea that "you should be able to switch between the two to see what actions in the past can do to the future and vice versa" is legit an impossible task for a ps3 era game and also doesn't respect the direction the game went. We get plenty of moments where we see the concept in action. The idea of a stubborn Spiderman who doesn't want to listen to Miguel, especially when he's being told to not save somebody, is very much in line with a traditional spiderman take. He's not an idiot, he's just a slave to his responsibility. It's a theme that carries the entire story of the game, especially with Miguel having to learn to become more of a hero and when the actual villain turns out to be oldman Peter Parker who's taken the 'great power great responsibility' lesson too far. It's one of Spider Man's most important and deep stories outside of the comics told as a time-travel sci-fi adventure.

[@midgetsparkle]

Um, I hate to tell you how to do your job but.. "The story is what *WEBS* you in..." It wa s right there, Matty... Right in front of your un-masked face.

[@retrorebound8887]

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@teddyholiday8038]

Long live MrMatty, long live Retro Rebound

[@willcommon6164]

If I heard correctly I believe activation kind of forced the developers to make this game in a very short time span, like half the time and money they had with Shattered Dimensions. which could explain a lot.

[@polishprince47]

The XBOX 360 had some Amazing Spiderman Games!!

[@seamkeen8441]

i'd like to see some of the older transfomers games in preparation for rise of the beasts. like fall of cybertron and war for cybertron, even the movie games if that can be covered.

[@doobiemann]

where could I download this game for pc

[@NadeemShekh-uy9zn]

Do a retro rebound video on captain america super soldier

[@knjegovan9]

I hate that the arena mode was locked behind a cheat code and not unlocked by beating the game or even 100% entertwospiders or twospidersenter is the code

[@bryandiaz6597]

While this game’s mechanics definitely weren’t the best, i think it’s universally agreed on when I say that this game was the best adaptation on 616 Peter Parker and Miguel O’Hara and their characters were captured near perfectly

[@TheIronMelon]

helps that miguel in the game was written by his actual creator

[@bryandiaz6597]

@@TheIronMelon exactly, it’s why he felt so perfect

[@clarked345]

Duuude you should do DMC series. I just got into it and it’s super fun! especially Dmc5

[@jonbourgoin182]

4:32 this is around that time where instruction manuals were becoming a lost art. Very little effort put into them. Just bare bones and colorless. I can see why the manuals for older games makes their value go up.

[@kossgaming8211]

Tbh being too critical can hurt your enjoymen of the game i was a kid so i just thought spidey was cool but for what it is its still a very good game and i put it up with wos and 2018 because of its great dialouge voice acting and tone Edit: just wathced the rest of the video holy crap have i never heard a worse vidoe game take

[@elliot1674]

You should do a collection tour

[@ClellBiggs]

Spider-Matty is back!

[@imarock.7662]

I can't believe people thought this game was bad

[@DrierHyperion21]

Ive been playing spiderman shattered dimensions via emulator on pc. Also been playing a lot of armored core. I love that i can play all these old gems on pc

[@BrotherKnowledge.]

I thought ahead when the Spider-Man games dropped. I got all of them digitally for like $7.50 a piece during a Black Friday Sale back in 2015. (Edge of Time, Friend or Foe, Web of Shadows, Shattered Dimensions, and Amazing Spider-Man.) Glad I did. But i hate that I didn't immediately do so for The Amazing Spider-Man 2. I got the Amazing Spider-Man 2 for the Xbox 360 because I didn't have the Xbox One yet. But planned on getting the Xbox One copy digitally once the price dropped. Waited for the price to drop, turned around twice and learned that it was de-listed. Dammit. Got all of the others, though!

[@Ant-man4312]

Honestly did not know people hated this game, always thought it was an underrated gem like web of shadows

[@treymykel]

Yeah they were rush because Bennox actually wanted to do a a sequel to Shadow dimensions but on the publisher's Activision said no. Because they wanted to another with Spider-Man title out real quick so they had to hurry up and come up with this Edge of time game. Honestly I'm not really that disappointed because when they explain the premises that Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2099 are going to be stuck into altrctrax building I was like oh okay I see.

[@Herozonex200]

Retro, how are you able to atleast stream this game on ps3?

[@DrierHyperion21]

You should make some armored core videos for retro rebound

[@Ali-sh5sx]

I love edge of time I didnt even know it got hate till i saw people talking about it on the internet sure its not a super long game and it has its limits but what it does it does super well imo I love the banter between miguel and Peter I love the story

[@NadeemShekh-uy9zn]

Do reviews on both the x-men legends games

[@Pieguy3OO]

This was the weird sequel to Shattered Dimensions I never got around to, and at 4 hours long and the price people are charging for it online, no thank you. I’m sure its okay, but definitely not worth 70 plus dollars. Imma stick with my copy of SD I’ve had since middle school.

[@calvinmatthews1527]

While not the worst Spider-Man game, it's still far from the best. I think one of the biggest irks with this game is how limited the scope is compared to the last game.

[@Narwhal12]

I think that limited scope is partly on how little time they got to develop this game, it was heavily rushed

[@simbathecomic]

Great work making this video

[@vasvoljenistanoje8925]

One of the most epic cinematic moments are in this game. I had so much fun with it, and it's considered bad?! I am confused

[@lalotime]

The game had a very cheap feeling. Kind of like the amazing spiderman games. The graphics and framerate felt clunky/outdated Never heard anyone say it was bad game. But didnt hear anyone say it was amazing either. I do love the suit

[@mozeeyyy]

i had no idea this game had a bad wrap. i loved this game and the graphics it was so good to me at least the graphics were for the year it was when i played it as a kid

[@thezemag]

This game was amazing and should have been the plot that introduced the time stone into the MCU

[@WassaPunk]

Peters suit is so nice🥰

[@CFLaughs]

Played shattered dimensions and loved it but never even played this game. Thank you for giving me some insight on it!

[@hanes2]

I liked the amazing spider man -game on ps3

[@NolanWins]

I’ve been wanting for you to do this game for so long, I really like Edge of Time

[@Deadforge]

Always wanted tonplay this and shattered dimensions

[@DannyGames92]

No edge of time was a good ass game

[@devided8816]

hope there will be a friend or foe review, that was my childhood

[@jorgeadame5019]

Do a vid on X-MEN Destiny Matt

[@thatguychris2657]

i love how this guy dresses up for every game

[@konflicted1729]

You just rebounded all over my retro

[@SimplyNotReally]

Cant wait to hear your deep and insightful thoughts on Pixel Starship in What Were Playing this week ✊️

[@Tampafan33]

I liked this game😊

[@Fluminox-]

I remember loving this game as a kid. Same situation as Sonic 06 and Pokemon BW I guess

[@yxngakx8261]

I have every Spider-Man game and they all sell for more than I originally bought them for on release date😂

[@aarontongson3597]

This game is still awesome imo

[@christianlott68]

This game dose has some bad flaws ngl but I got this game on my 3Ds as a kid and it was so fun and nostalgic but I could never save Peter from being crushed😭😭

[@agroed]

Basically Activision said, we like money. Money, money, money. We'll give you not even a year to make another Spider-Man game. Get to work.

[@yourfreakingrayofsunshine]

I am both jealous and nauseated by your black suit spiderman costume.

[@theoutsiderjess4869]

I strongly disagree with you on Peter character in this game. If peter had ran he should never put on his suit again he has people to save and bad guys to defeat and help. Should he be less sarcastic yes but other than that they wrote spiderman how he is supposed to be

[@polishprince47]

Salutations Mr Matty!! 😊

[@Etch..]

I couldn’t disagree more with your opinions on the art style and Peter’s writing, firstly, this isn’t a Spider-Verse story with multiple realities, it’s the Present & Future in the same reality, hence the art style being consistent between both Spider-Men, second, Peter isn’t being stupid, he’s refusing to stand by and let others get hurt because he could’ve done something but didn’t, he probably knows what the smart thing to do is, but he consistently chooses the morally right thing, instead of the logically right thing

[@jonbourgoin182]

How hot does it get wearing that Spidey outfit?

[@brandonmalone1893]

I want a video on superman 64...the best superhero game ever

[@tristandesvarieux3019]

I actually played this before shattered dimensions tbh so it always been one of my top 10s

[@nota_soul5927]

Apparently Edge of time was rushed to release as well, which didn't help out, unsurprisingly..

[@lzrdkng07]

You should do spiderman web of shadows

[@BrotherHercules01]

I believe this game was not given alot of development time, and apparently if it was given more time from the start the devs would have made shattered dimensions 2.

[@LawgSkrak]

Free Starbucks? Dirk Benedict or Katee Sackhoff? I'd prefer the Sackhoff version. 😏

[@Nkb1819]

In 2023, this game is far better than shattered. Shattered had us repeating the same missions over and over. This at least had a better story aspect.

[@lutherheggs451]

There is no universe where its better than Shattered Dimensions in any way shape or form.

[@Xxxtentacionps5fanboy]

The cover art is the best thing about it

[@Benji568]

Now that the multiverse has bled into the live action Spider-Man movies thanks to No Way Home, I want a live action adaptation of this game now!!!

[@retrogamerfan123]

This game is very hard to platinum it’s more grindy for all the side stuff

[@DiscoBoi]

I grew up with these game so I have tight nostalgia goggles on when looking at it, but I don't think it's at all bad. I get that many people say there's no reason to play it since shattered dimensions exists, or that it should have been dlc. However, I think this game is better because of it's story, atmosphere, and characters. Shattered dimensions plot was very generic and the characters, though fun, were two dimensional at best whereas edge of time strips it down to two spider men which I think makes it work much better. Through the entire game you feel like you're on the clock constantly and I don't just mean the parts where you have a timer on screen. The whole game sets this mood where you really feel that this is a story taking place over a very long day. You watch it go from the afternoon all the way to dawn at the end of the game, peter's suit gets progressively morn torn and dirty, and the characters sound as though they're going through the ring and ready for this whole thing to end. Like I said I have heavy nostalgia lens but the eot's story is just so great that it makes the game one of my absolute favorite spider man games of all time.