NYCC 2011: The Amazing Spider-Man in development for the past year

In the New York Comic Con 2011 Spider-Man panel, Activision producer Doug Heder revealed that developer Beenox’s third game starring Spidey, The Amazing Spider Man, has been in development even longer than either Shattered Dimensions or Edge of Time.

Accrding to Heder, ”We’ve spent more time on this game than we will have on either of the other two.” In addition, the pre-production phase began almost four years ago, with a second Beenox team working on the groundwork.

”They are two completely separate teams,” Heder noted. ”We have separate leads, separate artists, separate designers – they’re working in parallel with each other.”

Heder also revealed that a game based on Spider-Man 4 was planned as a tie-in to a film that was in pre-production, but was axed when the film’s production shut down. This was actually a boon to the publisher, as it allowed them to create the Spider-Man story they wanted to work on. Spider-Man 4: The Video Game would have been developed by Radical. ”That was a completely different studio that was working on it, completely different tech, and engine and everything,” Heder said. ”And when the movie shut down, we shut the game down.”