Spider-Man: Edge of Time (2011). Play online

Summary

The Nintendo DS version of Spider‑Man: Edge of Time brings the hero’s time‑bending adventure to handheld form, but the experience feels distinct from its console siblings. Developed by Other Ocean Interactive, the game trims the lavish graphics of the 3DS, PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii releases, opting for a more modest visual style that works on the DS’s dual screens. Gameplay still swaps between Peter Parker and Miguel O’Hara, preserving the cause‑and‑effect mechanic that lets actions in one timeline ripple into the other, yet controls and level design were reshaped to suit the portable format. Critics noted that while the voice acting and story remained strong, the handheld edition suffered from repetitive play loops and felt like a watered‑down version of its higher‑budget counterparts. On Metacritic it sits at 50/100, with many reviewers assigning a lukewarm six out of ten.

Storyline

In Spider-Man: Edge of Time, the story jumps between the year 2099 and Peter Parker’s present day. Future Spider‑Man Miguel O’Hara discovers Alchemax scientist Walker Sloan planning to travel back in time, rebuild Alchemax before it ever existed, and crush Stark‑Fujikawa Industries. When Sloan activates his gateway, O’Hara is briefly trapped between dimensions and sees a vision of Parker being killed.

Using Parker’s DNA, O’Hara creates a chronal link and warns his predecessor of an imminent death at the hands of Anti‑Venom. Parker refuses, battles the powered‑down Anti‑Venom on the 66th floor, and is pulled through the portal into a containment unit while O’Hara fights the villain in his own era. Sloan’s quantum causality field causes actions in the past to ripple forward, swapping the two Spider‑Men into each other’s timelines.

Both heroes repair the gateway, confront clones of Black Cat, and battle a monstrous hybrid dubbed “Atrocity.” In the climax, Parker lures Atrocity and the future‑self CEO back through the portal, collapsing the gateway and erasing Sloan’s changes. Only O’Hara and Parker retain the memory of the erased timeline.