A prototype of Eurocom's Spider-Man 4 has been discovered on a debug on an RVT-H Wii development kit, giving us a glimpse of a movie tie-in (and movie, for that matter) that never was.
While Sam Raimi's Spider-Man series was commercially successful, the third outing took a bit of a beating from the critics; there were plans for a fourth movie – hence this prototype existing – but Sony would eventually choose to reboot the whole shebang with the Amazing Spider-Man movies (which, in turn, would be abandoned in favour of another reboot more recently, kicking off with Spider-Man: Homecoming).
Development clearly didn't get too far, as the prototype only has two (incomplete) stages and there's not a massive amount of detail, beyond the basic traversal mechanics and a few effects. A range of debug features are also included, presumably to aid the developers with level creation and basic design.
Interestingly, when running the ROM via emulation, it is recognised as Dead Space: Extraction, another Wii title from Eurocom (but one which actually saw release). This suggests that Spider-Man 4 was built using the same game engine.
If you fancy downloading the prototype and having a go on it yourself, you can find the link here.
[source gamingalexandria.com]
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Cool! I love seeing unreleased games and hearing about why they were not finished. It's even better when we find dev ROMs so we can see all that they got done and we can look at the game for ourselves instead of relying on screenshots. Here's hoping a ROM of EarthBound 64 can be found.
I wonder if this rom has any clue about the story of the movie.
Almost no details from the movie leaked, except the casting of John Malkovitch as the Vulture.
@smashboy2000
Yeah that's what i am most interested in.
Would could have been?
It's as amazing as the demo of Re2 on the gba (would have been amazing to have that in handheld form. Such an ambitious project it was)
Those graphics look pretty darn good for a Wii game, and the pointer would have been the perfect control scheme for shooting webs.
Ah, what could have been!
"Too many ampersands.."
"That's probably why the game didn't get released!"
XD
@smashboy2000 I'm so disconnected from the Spiderman films at this point that I thought that movie with Vulture was released and I had missed it. I had no idea it was canceled altogether!
@angelus They finally made a movie with Vulture : Spider-Man Homecoming, the reboot of the reboot. It was meh.
If you like good movies, watch Amazing Spider-Man, especially the second which is a masterpiece. Brillant plot, brillant music, brillant actors and brillant directing.
A lot of geeks and nerds and comicbook fans don't like this movie : don't listen to them.
@smashboy2000 Ohhh, that must be why I remembered Vulture, except in this one, he was played by Michael Keaton. Malkovitch would have been a better pick in my opinion but I do remember enjoying the movie. I also did watch the trilogy with Tobey Maguire. I liked 1 and 2, but 3 just didn't sit right with me (and many other fans from what I remember). After that they rebooted with the other guy, don't know his name. I watched only part 2 of those (forgot if it was a trilogy as well) and enjoyed it as well (the one with Emma Stone).
Amazing Spider-Man 2 good? Getting rickrolled here.
Anyway, Eurocom was a pretty good developer, Shame they went belly up. They also had a good PS2 James Bond game, Dead Space Extraction and other cool stuff in their day.
Confused as to why he brought the baby in and then just pasted some face over it. Maybe the baby is super ugly?
On a serious note, it looks good, but not revolutionary compared to Spider-man 3 or the Amazing Spider Man.
@smashboy2000 I watched Homecoming like 3 months back and honestly can not remember anything except the monument, keatons face and brief appearences of Downey Jr and DerrickComedy (or Childish Gambino as people know him now)... So must have been really good.
@smashboy2000 The Amazing Spider Man 2 is good... if you wanna have a good laugh on how ridiculous it is. It’s worse than Spider Man 3
The Web swinging in Spider-Man 3 for Wii was fantastic. Vicarious Visions should have been given 6 more months to clean it up and it would have been amazing. This looks like it could have been even better. Eurocom was one of those developers that really pushed the Wii.
@smashboy2000 Man idk why people are hating on you about Amazing Spider-Man 2...they’re just mad you’re right 😁
@MH4 🤷♂️
Maybe they can use this as the template for a new Spider-Man game on the Switch? Haha
@smashboy2000
I would say the first Amazing Spider-Man was the better of the two. Andrew Garfield is still my favorite Peter Parker/Spider-Man. He portrayed the character with a confidence that reminded me of the Spider-Man books I read as a kid.
Nothing against the other actors portraying him, they’re all good, but there was just something I liked about AG. Plus, it was cool to see Gwen Stacy again. I like M.J., but it was a nice change.
@Kang81
Which Spiderman books were that ?
Because to me Garfield was more like the early 1980's college student Peter Parker by Roger Stern and JRjr.
While Maquire was more like the gangly awkward original teenager Peter Parker by Lee and Ditko.
No comment on the current Spiderman.
I'm so sick of seeing him as a teenager.
He was a 20 something college student for 25 years and high schooler for all of 2 .5 years.
I was fairly sure in the early 90’s he wasn’t in school at all. I’m talking Maximum Carnage, Clone Saga era. I think he was married to MJ at the time. I honestly don’t recall him doing anything other than being Spider-Man back then. Well, also making MJ worry.
I could be wrong, but I was only into comics for about 3-4 years back then. I hated how they jumped all over the place, and still do.
You’ve read part one of the story in The Amazing Spider-Man, catch part two in The Spectacular Spider-Man, and part 3 in Uncanny X-Men #322!
Stories jumping between different runs of the same character was bad enough, but then they would put a part of a story in a completely unrelated book. My guess was to help sell them. I gave up trying to keep up.
I recently returned a few years ago but have been more into DC comics like JLA and particularly the Geoff Johns era Green Lantern. I’ve been grabbing digital TPB’s but they’re still confusing. So many reviews say the TPB’s aren’t in chronological order or are missing parts of a story.
I’ve kinda fallen off comics again because I’m not going to jump around all over to read a story.
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