Spider-Man: Edge Of Time Storyline Explained

When Spider-Man: Edge of Time was first announced, the plotline made less sense than a monkey wearing a toupe because all we knew was that it would involve the 2099 universe and the Amazing universe and that the whole game is about preventing Peter Parker’s death.

That really was all Beenox were going to give out but now the picture is somewhat clearer after an explanation at the SMET panel at WonderCon 2011. So, an evil scientist from the 2099 universe goes back in time to the Amazing era and kills Peter Parker. Somehow, Spider-Man 2099 sees this as well as the world around him suddenly getting quite warped. The Statue of Liberty becomes a sword-bearing woman for instance.

In an effort to make things right, Spider-Man 2099 gets in touch with Amazing Spider-Man, well before his death of course, and the two work together like some sort of cross-timeline cop duo. Gameplay will switch between 2099 and Amazing as you try to save not only Spider-Man’s life but the future as well. While playing as either Spidey, you’ll have a box in the bottom-right corner to show what the other is doing.

The cross-timeline nature of the game will give it lots of interesting mechanics. When playing  as 2099, Amazing can knock down a wall in his time and that wall will disappear in your time. How that wall doesn’t get rebuilt in almost a century is inexplicably convenient. More realistic though is when Amazing beats down a robot and the robot 2099 was brawling disappears because the first robot was a prototype for the second.

With the two dimensions and what certainly sounds like sufficient fodder for a co-op game, Edge of Time will be decidedly a single-player experience. It is also in no way a sequel to last year’s Shattered Dimensions although it does borrow some its cast such as Josh Keaton who played Ultimate Spider-Man  and Christopher Daniel Barnes who played Noir Spidey but returns as 2099 in this game.

Any die-hard Marvel fans need not worry about the apparent universe mixing – Amazing and 2099 are not in the same reality – because the creators are keen to avoid upsetting you and will fully it all in-game.

That story actually makes a bit of sense now and doesn’t sound too bad. At the very least, it lends itself to some interesting gameplay mechanics.