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Wayne Dalton, who was previously a senior environment artist at Radical Entertainment, has shared some screenshots and details of a cancelled Spider-Man 4 that ended up becoming Prototype 2.

On ArtStation, Dalton shared some screenshots of what was once Spider-Man 4, with different scenes featuring our favorite Web Slinger, as well as office furniture and newspaper articles from the Daily Bugle.

Alongside these images, Dalton said “the studio ended up massaging this into what became Prototype 2. Programmers did an amazing job on Spider mans locomotion & wed physics. shame there’s no footage.”

Via ArtStation – Wayne Dalton

Via ArtStation – Wayne Dalton

Your friendly neighborhood Prototype

According to Dalton’s LinkedIn page, he worked at Radical Entertainment from 2006-2012, and then moved on to Capcom from 2013-2018.

In addition to working on the first two Prototype games and Dead Rising 3 and 4, he was also working on Prototype 3, which has yet to see the light of day, and may never.

Spider-Man 4 would have been the follow-up to 2007’s Spider-Man 3, which expanded upon the film of the same name featuring Tobey Maguire, James Franco, and J.K. Simmons.

Prototype 2, which released in 2012, was given a 7/10 from us. In our Prototype 2 review, we said said it “is fun, but it sure is forgettable.”

Activision was the publisher behind Spider-Man 3 and other Spider-Man titles that garnered mediocore reviews, and Activision CEO Bobby Kotick even said, back in 2010, “our Spiderman games have sucked for the last five years. They are bad games.”

While Spider-Man 4 may have been cancelled, Spider-Man fans were treated to a great entry last year. In our Marvel’s Spider-Man for PS4 review, we said “The Wall Crawler’s open world doesn’t consistently deliver the thrilling moments of its main campaign, but the foundation laid here is undoubtedly a spectacular one.”

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN who wonders what other games were once something hugely popular and then were turned into something else. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst.



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