Trivia / Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions

• Celebrity Voice Actor: Neil Patrick Harris as Amazing Spider-Man. This trope might be the reason why, despite Harris's prior time as Spidey being Spider-Man: The New Animated Series, which only lasted one season and saw many episodes burned through early on, he's the main/Amazing Spidey.
• Colbert Bump: Be honest, you didn't know about Spider-Man Noir before you played this game.
• Follow the Leader: The Noir stealth sections are suspiciously similar to Batman: Arkham Asylum, with the Noir part of the final boss battle also being very similar to the Scarecrow boss fight in Arkham. While Spider-Man: The Movie had stealth levels with similar mechanics, it was considerably less refined. The Spider-Sense in this game is also commonly referred as being similar to Arkham's detective vision, however Spider-Man 3 already had the spider-sense working exactly as it does here.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Due to Activision losing the Spider-Man license in 2014, Shattered Dimensions, along with every Spider-Man title developed by Activision, would be delisted from all digital storefronts in 2014. It would be briefly re-issued on Steam a year later in 2015 with a new deal, before being permanently delisted two years later in 2017 (largely thanks to the rights having been obtained by Sony Interactive Entertainment). As a result, the game has become increasingly difficult to obtain, with physical copies often going up for hundreds of dollars on secondhand markets.
• Playing Against Type: Tara Strong as Doctor Octopus 2099 and John Kassir as Scorpion 2099.
  • Christopher Daniel Barnes as Spider Noir.
• Pre-Order Bonus:
  • Pre-ordering a PS3 or Xbox 360 version from Gamestop gets each character a Cosmic Spider-Man costume. Or, if you order it from Amazon, Spider-Man 2099 gets Spider-Man's Iron Spider costume unlocked at the beginning, K-Mart will get you the Scarlet Spider costume◊ for Amazing Spidey.
  • Pre-ordering from Best Buy unlocks Noir Spider-Man's Negative Zone costume◊ early. Other costumes that can be unlocked early from pre-orders are the Spider armor costume◊ for 2099, and the Marvel Mangaverse costume◊ for Ultimate.
• Recycled Script: Certain elements of the Kraven's level are recycled from the Xbox version of Spider-Man: The Movie, up to and including a segment where Kraven tries to snipe you out.
• Role Reprise:
  • While all of the Spider-Men are voiced by past Spidey voice actors, arguably only the Amazing one (voiced by Neil Patrick Harris from Spider-Man: The New Animated Series on the consoles and Josh Keaton from The Spectacular Spider-Man on the DS) falls into this.
  • While the Noir universe, John DiMaggio reprises the role of Hammerhead from The Spectacular Spider-Man.
  • Jennifer Hale reprises her role from Ultimate Spider-Man (2005), Spider-Man: Battle for New York, and Spider-Man: Friend or Foe as Silver Sable.
  • While Fred Tatasciore voices Carnage, it arguably is an aversion to this, as the Carnage he voiced in Friend or Foe and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 is Cletus Kasady and in Shattered Dimensions, he voices Ultimate!Carnage, who is a clone of Peter.
  • Unsurprisingly, Nolan North reprises his Hulk Vs. role as Deadpool.
• What Could Have Been: HD remasters of Shattered Dimensions and Edge of Time were allegedly planned by Activision to serve as a "quick money maker" to capitalize on the hype of Spider-Man (PS4), with Activision going as far as to make early prototypes. Marvel was initially on board with the idea and was close to approving a deal to allow the HD remasters. However, the deal fell through after Activison began pushing to develop new Marvel games, causing the HD remasters to get scrapped.

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