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With Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions' fourth and final universe out of the bag (it is "Ultimate" Spidey, as many surmised), Activision was showing off the first playable build of the game at a pre-Comic-Con event last night. I played both the newly revealed Ultimate Spidey, in his black symbiote suit, and the Noir version.

While I wasn't clued in to the game's multidimensional, overarching story (perhaps at the Comic-Con panel then?), I did get a feel for the combat, which is arguably the make-or-break component of the game. Though I only played within two of the game's four universes, I found the combat to be solid, if a little shallow, and, in practice, it came together better than I had expected after seeing the game demoed last month.

#comiccon2010 Spider-man's latest video game adventure has four times the Spidey, a quartet of multi-dimensional webheads working toward a common goal. Last night, I played in two of those dimensions, Spider-man: Shattered Dimensions' versions of Metal Gear and God of War. More »

As deduced by our industry-leading experts on men who are also spiders, the fourth and final Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions universe will be Ultimate. That is to say, it will be set in the Marvel Comic Ultimate universe -- we can't vouch for its relative "ultimateness" quite yet.

So, what's different about this one? Well, according to IGN's Comic-Con preview, the world of the Ultimate universe is bright and cel-shaded -- a stark contrast to Spidey's pitch black Symbiote suit. Players will encounter large groups of SHIELD troops and Carnage Symbiotes, which they'll be able to deal with simultaneously using their suits increased offensive capabilities. Whip swaths of enemies with your Spidey-tendrils, shoot web-spikes out of your chest, or summon black spikes from the ground to wreck enemies' shops.

So, he's basically like the guy from Prototype, only he's much less inclined to eviscerate every single civilian that wanders into his field of vision. How nice! Look for our multi-dimensional preview of the game later today.

As deduced by our industry-leading experts on men who are also spiders, the fourth and final Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions universe will be Ultimate. That is to say, it will be set in the Marvel Comic Ultimate universe -- we can't vouch for its relative "ultimateness" quite yet.

So, what's different about this one? Well, according to IGN's Comic-Con preview, the world of the Ultimate universe is bright and cel-shaded -- a stark contrast to Spidey's pitch black Symbiote suit. Players will encounter large groups of SHIELD troops and Carnage Symbiotes, which they'll be able to deal with simultaneously using their suits increased offensive capabilities. Whip swaths of enemies with your Spidey-tendrils, shoot web-spikes out of your chest, or summon black spikes from the ground to wreck enemies' shops.

So, he's basically like the guy from Prototype, only he's much less inclined to eviscerate every single civilian that wanders into his field of vision. How nice! Look for our multi-dimensional preview of the game later today.

#podcast This week's episode of the Kotaku Talk Radio podcast has hit the web...of Spider-Man. Download or stream the latest episode to hear Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions game designer Francois Taddei spin us a tale of multiple webslingers. More »

And the final universe is...

A picture snapped from the upcoming Comic-Con showing… Looks like we know what Activision will be talking about at the show. I think we kind of expected this!

#spidermanshattereddimensions Tonight is preview night at the San Diego Comic-Con. So let's talk comics and games and Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. More »

#podcast The timing for this week's podcast could not be better. No, really. It could not. What better way to dive into Comic-Con than with Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. More »

Which came first: the bad guy or the meme?

Which came first: the bad guy or the meme?

Jump into the future, wall-crawler.

Jump into the future, wall-crawler.

Take a spin through Spider-Man's darkest universe.

GameFly has proven that the speed of a game rental website exceeds the proportionate speed of a radioactive spider. The website posted the final box art for Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions well in advance of next week's Shattered Dimensions Comic-Con panel, which is expected to provide the "official" reveal of the game's fourth universe. Activision confirmed to Joystiq that the box art image is authentic.

There's still plenty of info to reveal at that panel, however. The newly revealed, fourth version of Spider-Man (pictured on the far right) looks like he's wearing the famous (infamous?) black "symbiote" costume, which raises questions about which "universe" it represents in the game. In the comics, the Secret Wars storyline that resulted in Spider-Man's acquisition of this costume took place in the normal "Earth-616" Marvel Comics continuity, which is already one of the game's revealed dimensions. (The other two are the Noir [Earth-7207] and Marvel 2099 [Earth-928] universes.) It's possible that this probable symbiote costume is the version from the Ultimate universe, which would qualify as a separate universe and fulfill the game's multidimensional gimmick.

Check out the full box art after the break, while we ponder the biggest question brought on by this reveal: When did we learn so much about Spider-Man comics?

#activision ...well, it could be a few things. What appears to be the final box art for Activision's Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions is here, thanks to Gamefly, apparently revealing the fourth, still unofficially revealed incarnation of Spidey. And he's black. More »

There's one universe left to reveal, and we know what it is.

What If... Cosmic Spider-Man and Iron Spider-Man were pitted against each other as opposing retailer pre-order bonus characters? Further complicating the continuity of a not-so-tidy superhero storyline, Amazon is offering to manipulate the appearance of the Iron Spider-Man costume in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions' 2099 dimension for your pre-order purchase of the game. In other words, "you'll receive a code to unlock Iron Spidey early," explains HeroHQ, Activion's Marvel games web base. Amazon will also ship you an art book.

Sulking there in the background, the previously revealed GameStop pre-order bonus, Cosmic Spider-Man, is playable in all four of the game's dimensions (of which still only three have been revealed). Cosmic Spidey will actually have a unique look in each dimension and is being advertised as a true "exclusive" for GameStop pre-order purchases (but is not listed as a bonus for the Wii version of the game).

Not such a thrilling "What If" scenario, after all. Now, if we add Spider-Ham to the equation ...

Pre-order Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions and get an exclusive book featuring concept art, character renders, environments and more from the Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions video game across 4 different Spider-Man universes. The book will be included in pack when the game ships. Additionally, receive a code to unlock the unique Iron Spider-Man costume for 2099. The Iron [...]

#e3 Those Spider-Man 2099 images we posted last week were definitely from Activision's upcoming game Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, as evidenced by these official E3 screenshots and trailer starring the futuristic arachnid. More »

At a pre-E3 event a few weeks ago, Activision finally took the wraps off of the third of four universes that Spider-man: Shattered Dimensions will travel through, and Peter David geeks everywhere cheered: the game is going nearly a century in the future to the Spider-man of 2099. We got an early look at gameplay in the new universe, and it's hyperkinetic, with vast future cityscapes full of flying cars and neon setting the backdrop to the skull-emblazoned dark blue figure of the future Spider-man flipping and kicking in dizzying aerial fights.

The future setting wasn't the only new footage we saw -- Activision also showed off another Noir level, set in a carnival atmosphere, where stealthy Spidey was pitted up against that universe's Norman Osbourne, a.k.a. Goblin, a crime boss. That level was much slower than other parts of the game we've seen -- until Spider-man got spotted, at which point the music spurred into action ... and Activision moved on to the 2099 reveal.

Tonight, we're going to party like it's 2099.

Party like it's 2099.

And just like that, the third of the four universes in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions has been revealed by All Games Beta. If the headline and the image haven't given it away already, it's Spider-Man 2099, which will now join the Amazing and Noir Spider-Man universes. Fun fact: Spidey 2099 shoots his web from the top of his wrists. Weird.

Though it doesn't feature any 2099-ness, you can find a new trailer featuring the villains of Shattered Dimensions after the break.

[Via CVG]

#rumor A series of screenshots has slipped onto the web, showing off what looks like confirmation of Spider-Man's 2099 alter-ego Miguel O'Hara's appearance in Activision's Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. More »

Meet the villains you'll be beating the hell out of.