Fashion plates had a lot to get excited about at the Marvel Video Games panel on Thursday morning at the San Diego Comic-Con, as several new outfits were announced for Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions – some of which are preorder bonuses, some of which are just hidden and waiting to be unlocked in the game.
Two of those suits were already known: Cosmic Spider-Man is a GameStop preorder perk, featuring a Cosmic outfit for each dimension, and those four suits are not accessible without that special preorder code. Additionally, early access to Iron Spider is being offered by Amazon. Iron Spider is an unlockable outfit that will be playable in the 2099 world, but Amazon’s code will let you get it right away. Two more retailer perks were shown at the panel as well: the Scarlet Spider early unlock is avialable through Kmart, and the instant-unlock Negative Zone Spider-Man outfit is yours if you preorder from Best Buy.
There are more unlockable costumes that will be hiding in the game. It was not revealed how you will access them, but the Spider-Armor and Mangaverse costumes will both be in Shattered Dimensions.
The panel was shared with the folks from Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Super Hero Squad, and Thor, but the Spidey team got a chance to offer a few more facts and comments. The game’s creative director, Thomas Wilson from Beenox, explained that as the dev team was brainstorming ideas for the next Spider-Man game, “one guy on the team said ‘you know what would be great? To play them all.’ And we all got really excited.”
Dan Slott, Thomas Wilson, TQ Jefferson, and moderator Chris Baker
But it fell to writer Dan Slott to make the story for that actually come together: “We have all these rules about how the Marvel universe works, and we were thinking, how do we do this so it makes sense?” They came up with one of the Lemurian Tablets – the Tablet of Order and Chaos – which shattered and found its way through various dimensions, which meant various Spideys. And when that opened the door for four different voice actors, that made Slott particularly happy: “As a Spider-Man geek, you’re not just getting all of them from the comic – you’re getting all the Spider-Mans from the cartoons too!” He did say he was a little nervous writing for the game’s narrator, Stan Lee. “When you’re writing lines that you know Stan’s going to say…and then you get notes later that say ‘we need more alliteration!’”
And so the question becomes…which preorder outfit tempts you most?
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