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Xbox 360 Menu

Xbox 360 Menu

Spider-Man 4 is a canceled Xbox 360 and Wii game that was supposed to be released in 2011, the year Spider-Man 4 was released in theaters.

Wii Menu

Wii Menu

Plot[]

This would be the same as the plot for Spider-Man 4 with the Vulture as the main villain.

Why They Were Cancelled[]

  1. Sam Raimi was displeased with how Spider-Man 3 turned out.
  2. The release date became an issue since Sam Raimi couldn't meet the Summer 2011 release date that Sony wanted.
  3. The storyline championed by Raimi was dour and downbeat, with the main antagonist that wasn't seen as marketable enough by Sony executives, who preferred someone more visually interesting, like Electro or Carnage.

Results[]

  1. Spider-Man 4 was canceled along with the Xbox 360 and Wii Video Game, years later the unfinished game got access by the players.
  2. the rights of Spider-man games were passed to Beenox.
  3. Sam Raimi's Spider-man trilogy was rebooted to Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man in 2012.

Trivia[]

  • On September 10th, 2019, a Twitter user is known as @andrewEarley7 reported his findings of the game and some screenshots of the game
  • On November 30th, 2019, A YouTuber Hard4Games uploaded a video featuring gameplay and the debug menu of the unreleased game. The next day on December 1st, 2019, the game was uploaded onto the Internet Archive by user DiskHacker
  • The screenshots of the game uploaded by Wayne Dalton, however, are screenshots from a different version of the game. Evidence for this is that there is a different model used for Spider-Man and a different HUD. It is unknown however many other versions exist of the game.
  • The Xbox 360 version of the game was leaked from several sources on September 11th, 2021 by Obscure Gamers.
  • Vermin shown in the Wii Menu

    Vermin shown in the Wii Menu

    The bosses would have been Vulture, Mysterio and the rumored villains in the opening credits. One of the confirmed bosses would have been Vermin.