10 Criminally Underrated Comic Book Video Games You Must Play

7. Spider-Man: Edge Of Time

Activision will never know what a good thing they had going with studios like Beenox and High Moon. The two companies now handle support for Call of Duty these days and little else, but at the beginning of the 2010s, both were busy working on different comic book franchises.

For Beenox, that franchise was Spider-Man. Treyarch had long abandoned their web-slinging days by alternating with Infinity Ward on Call of Duty, but there were promising signs that Beenox could deliver.

For starters, 2011's Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions was fantastic. The studio made a brave call in divesting from the open-world formula that had governed Spidey's game since the 2004 movie tie-in, and it paid off, with the studio getting the chance to bring four different Spider-Men to life, all of which featured different voice actors from Spidey's past.

But with success came many pitfalls, and it's still the case that Shattered Dimensions remains Beenox's best offering. The Amazing Spider-Man was... fine, while its sequel was the victim of a rushed development cycle (another reason to be thankful Activision now no longer have the Marvel license).

Still, there is one other Beenox Spidey game that I feel as though gets a bit of an unfair rap, and that's Edge of Time. It downgraded Shattered Dimension's four Spider-Men to just two, but it has a superb story written by veteran comic book writer Peter David, and fun enough gameplay to boot. It might not be up there with the best, but it's far from the disaster its review scores would imply.