Images of canceled 2010 Spider-Man 4 game appear online

Footage has surfaced of the canceled Spider-Man 4 game for Xbox 360 that has been in development since 2008. It is the first time that moving images of this console version have become available.

The development of Spider-Man 4 started in 2008, as did the production of the movie of the same name to which the game was to be linked. According to Obscure Gamer, both the film and the game should have been released in 2011, but due to the film’s cancellation, development of the game was also halted in January 2010.

Over the years, screenshots and artwork of the game appeared. In 2019, developer Wayne Dalton shared some images of the PS3 version and in 2020 the first images of the Wii version of the game came out. Now we also get to see moving images of the game, but from the Xbox 360 version that runs on a different engine than the Wii version and was developed together with the PS3 version by Radical Entertainment.

That Canadian developer was appointed by Activision in 2008 to develop the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game. This is because Radical Entertainment already had a scale model of New York City for the 2009 game Prototype.

Development of the game was halted in 2010 and, according to Obscure Gamers, was still in its early stages. It featured four missions that were not yet fully fleshed out. One of those missions was a demo to learn the core mechanics of the game. The other three missions contain more story elements. The music played in the missions was already ready.