@BrandonJF: Ugh, yeah, that Mysterio section sucked. I thought the combat moves were pretty fun, though, and I loved being able to web guys so they were hanging upside down from lampposts. The main thing, though, is that they nailed the web-swinging. That's one of the few reasons left to turn on my Wii.

Thanks for the good review, Fahey; I still look forward to playing this, it's good to know that what's there is fun. Here's hoping Spidey's next outing manages to combine all the good parts.

And since we live in the age of patchable games, maybe they can give us a New Spidey Voice Pack?

tk.

i agree with this review but there is one mistake:

there is absolutely no magical webbing at all. you dont hang out to the clouds. the webbing need to stick to sometheing in the game. thats why when you jump from a high building you cant swing until you reach a building where you attached to.

what you thought was magical webbing was maybe one of those wahcko glider flying enemies that was passing by and you accidentally hanged to him.

AGAIN, THERE ARE NO MAGICAL WEBBING IN THIS GAME

the swinging is more on par with spidey 2 than spidey 3.
the game is good but repetitiveness killed it

strugler

I disagree with the swinging. It's sort of "magnetic" towards buildings, but if there's no skyscraper there, you can't swing. I've only noticed once or twice that I'm swinging from nothingness. It's really good, and it's definitely the most fluid swinging there's ever been.

Poo_and_Weeeee

While extra content is good, I never purchase a game for the extra unlockables. I can even let the bad voice acting slide, but for God's sake... magic webbing? That ruins the game for me. Part of the fun of Spiderman 1 and 2 was pulling off acrobatics high above New York, then scrambling to hit a building with a web line to save yourself from death. I hesitate to say "realism" when talking about a game that involves a radiactive spider bite victim that gains superpowers, but it definitely takes away from the experience. Thanks Fahey, you saved me $60.

Demolitionist

I'm a big Spider-man fan so I've found this game enjoyable. Just a heads up, there's more unlockable stuff in the Wii version. Six extra costumes, three or four replace the Red Suit and two or three (nobody has narrowed it down for me) for the Black Suit. Not that it improves the rest of the game play.

Mommar

Here, here, on the web swinging. Spidey 2 is one of my favorite games. Every one since then has used this "more accessible" swing system and it sucks.

SpcmnSpf

I still have no idea why the Spider-Man 2 game is always put on this pedestal when the combat was completely lackluster and heaven forbid you ever had to move to an interior environment. I shudder just thinking about the whole Mysterio section of the game. Yeah, swinging around was just fine, but, unfortunately, there a whole 'nother side to the game.

BrandonJF

Spider-man 2 was a great game. I still find it a shame that the games have gone down hill after that.

Walker

I agree entirely with the review, especially the part about Spider-Man's voice actor. God I hate that guy. Also, how come Spidey never talks while beating up enemies, except during boss battles? Isn't it his thing to make fun of his enemies while he pummels them into the ground?

The game feels very empty, just as you said, and I was disappointed to find that there are no collectibles worth getting and that the game doesn't even continue after you beat it.

AJMarra

Ultimate was kinda good.

Also, I preferred the PSX spidey games over the the movie ones. It was much simpler in design, and didn't rely on the "you can go anywhere" gimmick. This kind of things works for me in games like Fallout, but hmm Spidey, it's kind of fun at first, but get's boring fast, I'd rather see a linear, well designed level then a super vast land of the same thing over and over again.

Kyolux

What?? What the hell would they put the magical webbing back in for?? Why not just straight import the SM2 system??

ca36gtp

Fahey, you should try the DS version.. I been playing it and it's great! It's like a weird mix of Metroid and Marvel Super Heroes, best beat'em up I've played in a long time :)

CockroachMan

Damn the ultra-dense clouds! Damn them to hell!

Lazlo

nice review. The choice aspect sounds pretty cool, although I could see the "rinse, repeat" missions watering it down quite a bit. :( Sounds like a decent candidate for rental

iddqdFTW

@TheIrishNinja: zombie?

z357x

@Walker: I found Ultimate Spider-man as good as SM2.

Sotiris

That's too bad about the web slinging from clouds. I was looking forward to this game but maybe I'll just rent it. I preferred the kinda hard swinging from the spider-man 2 and 3 games.

z357x

I found the new web swinging system a relief actually. It still looks and controls great, and works similar to the standard set in Spiderman 2, but its nice not being stuck to ground at some points..and that battle with the Vulture would've been a bitch. Otherwise, I really enjoy the game, and the review says pretty much everything I could say about it.

PureEgo03

@Kyolux: Actually, it doesn't get boring fast. If you concentrate on finding the secrets and collecting the tokens and everything you can really see how fun this aspect of the game is.

Sotiris

damn, few misses with the voice acting, and yeah, sucks to hear no collectibles - the classic DC/PS1 game was 10x more awesome for having costumes and shit like that.

still, as a marvel zombie, this one's easily a rental, could lead to a (used) purchase. appreciate the review.

TheIrishNinja

@Lazlo: oh, you say that now, but for years, they've been there for you, friend.

TheIrishNinja

@0bsessions:
Are you a big Spider-Man fan? The type who could swing around the city for a few hours without getting bored?

Mommar

GRAH! Never in my life has there been a game I was interested in that got such bipolar reviews! It seems no two people can agree completely on this game and it's making the decision to ask for it for Christmas or not annoying as hell.

0bsessions

I don't understand why people are complaining about the web-slinging. They wanted to give it a "comic book" feel to it, to capture spidey's essence.

That's exacly what they did.

I do dislike that damn voice actor though. he sounded like a prick.

<3 the kingpin jokes though. "must be getting dinner" is all I can say, hahaha

Jehuty

This review just makes me saddened to admit that I sold my Spider-Man 2 for PS2 a few years ago. Man, that game was classic!

danterandal19

I enjoyed it a great deal. Spidey has always been a bit of a whiner, which is the only reason I could stand the VA for Peter.

Other than Mary Jane yelling "PETER!" from a group of people while he's in his costume, the story was solid enough.

I really did appreciate the game. A very good Spider-Man title.

AdmiralSnackbar

don't forget the mind boggling number of glitches found in this game

[checkyourhud.com]

What The Geek

@Mommar:
Little addendum, I was disappointed with the semi-magical webbing for the web swinging in this one. They attempt to approximate when you should be attached to a building and when you can and can't web swing but it's not terribly accurate and there's definitely not the sense of physics like Spider-Man 2. It's like a slightly improved Spider-Man 3, but not nearly as bad as Ultimate was.

Mommar

I found this game pretty awesome. This is the first Spider-Man game I've enjoyed since PSX and SNES days.

I have the game for Wii and I must say, the few down sides to the game were very rare and minor.

As for the web clinging to the clouds? As I played the game, you couldn't swing from anything unless there was a building or object right around.

All in all, I loved the game. As there are something like 5 different endings, I will be playing it again to try get all those 1000 Spidey Icons and unlock the last suit grrr! 5 out 6.

ThatMiamiDude

Just wanted to go on record and say: I ****ing love this game.

If you're a fan of Spider-Man, this game is a must.

NaeemTHM

@TheIrishNinja:
How right you are. Many times I've longed for the feeling of the wind blowing through my hair as the psuedo-plasmid shooting from my veins grasped their heavenly courier.

Wow, I got all deep an' stuff.

Lazlo

@BrandonJF: The Mysterio portion was the best part of an overall pretty great game. I'll never forget the convenience store boss fight.

MDRL

excellent use of 'titular'

lamebrain

I think they should make a Spiderman game that played kinda like Bionic Commando.

Dynosaulo

You've hit on everything I noticed. Good and bad. However, I didn't mind the swinging system. It doesn't let you just swing anytime... you have to at least be near something to grab on to. But yeah, this is one of the better Spidey games lately.

themizarkshow

@Lazlo: They must've borrowed the idea from Spider-Man2 at the end where Peter rescues Mary Jane from the warehouse fusion bomb by shooting a web and flying away... even though the fusion bomb absorbed anything he could've webslinged onto! Them blasted hyperdense clouds!

PuppyGuarder

I bought this for my son and I to play together and I ended up laying long into the night well after he fell asleep.

Mindless fan service fun.

KillerBee

love this game. any naysayer can go right to hell.

ManjiKengo reads DuneTiger reads Kotaku, seems pleased.

@TheIrishNinja: They have, by god. Anyone who says they'd rather walk through the suburbs or Central Park instead of swinging from ultra-dense clouds is kidding themselves.

Calhoun

@Mommar: I dunno about the swinging about without getting bored thing. I am a huge Spider-Man fan and have been reading comics for sixteen years. I quite enjoyed Spider-Man 2, but preferred Ultimate Spider-Man. I'm basically looking/hoping for Ninja Gaiden disguised as Spider-Man here, if anything.

0bsessions

@BrandonJF: I really think 2 was overrated. 2 was the first to get the open world engine down, but that was it. They had very short story missions that varied in quality, then the only other thing you had to do besides swinging was collect balloons and other lame side stuff. It did have a different take on the Spiderman 2 movie plot. The mysterio stuff was pretty uninteresting other than his geek quotes and the convenience store battle.
Ultimate spiderman was great at telling its story in comic cutscenes and had a great cell shaded look. However, it had many anger-worthy chase sequences that showed it treated its players with contempt. But the swinging was still fun and playing venom was great.
Spiderman 3 was a better game than it gets credit for. It had few if any advancements over the previous games besides more interior environments. But it was fun and had alot to do. The Mary Jane voice acting was horrible, and nearly everything from the actual movie sucked, but the original contact was interesting. I liked the Lizard Sequences, Scorpion, Kraven the hunter, etc.
Web of Shadows I actually really enjoy, and in some ways it feels like the best of the bunch. Combat is definitely much much better than the other games. Swinging around town is fun, but getting yourself latched on buildings is annoying. The ability fight in the air, on the ground, on walls makes combat fun. The whole Black Cat fight is done in the air, on the side of a skyscraper, and occasionally on a roof. The game also uses Shinobi style mechanics of having you leap from one flying enemy to another to get to someplace you can't web to. The voice work IS horrible. Yet its got alot of comic fanservice.
I'd say if you liked Spiderman 2, its worth picking up, but again, I don't know why 2 is so revered other than it was the first open world.
I can say if you've liked Spiderman games, if you like the feeling of being Spiderman, you'll like this one.

Spiral

@strugler:
I completely AGREE with there being NOMAGICAL WEBBING IN THIS GAME... obviously someone wasnt playing the game enough to come to that assessment.

redflag

I always wonder why they make spider-man geeky character who gained powers. Ya he was geeky before but once he got his powers the only people who thought he was geeky were his high school classmates. He even had really REALLY big muscles (especially 80's spider-man).

LandMineLandSnake

Not a fan of Treyarch, but I love me some Shabba Ranks! :p

jollygoodlad

Should be noted that the PS2 and DS games are vastly different from the next-gen consoles. I think they probably should have had the guy from the DS version voice Spidey. He was full of energy and actually sounds like Spider-Man should.

I don't understand how they could mess up so bad though. Spidey 2 and Ultimate Spider-Man were two of the most enjoyable games I've ever played. All they have to do is expand on the Spidey 2 formula, add some more varied missions and there you go.

Heck, even to this day I enjoy swinging around the city and helping random people. Most of the time I just swing around the city. It's a shame we've gone downhill from that.

Dyscord

I'm still going to make it a point to play this game sooner or later. It looks too damned neat, especially when compared to the movie games.

The one thing I can forgive is the swinging from the clouds. In playing through Ultimate Spider-Man, it became frustrating during "race" scenes and even just moving around the map because some buildings can't be grabbed from certain heights or angles. I shouldn't have to memorize the city layout just to swing around. Spidey doesn't have to. (Hell, he's only able to swing due to spidey-reflexes, which I'm not ashamed to admit lacking.) Simplifying this mechanic is a godsend.

Gospel X

I always wanted Peter Parker to choose the Felicia Hardy over Mary Jane. heh.

The Kevin Smith-penned Spidey/Black Cat story is fantastic, btw.

TonyRockyHorror

@Sotiris: Agreed. I just wish they could make the worlds feel more realistic and lived in ala GTA4.

JohnnySacks

Why couldn't we just get a next-gen version of Spider-Man 2 with better and more varied missions? Goddamnit.

Strangelove

@LandMineLandSnake:
Peter from the 90s animated series wasn't geeky at all... I think the movies really brought back the initial geekiness to Parker to make him to be more of an everyman

stealthpengu

@Clave: And also "Hello, Extras?"????? Dude, did you ever unlocked the suits???

On to now, i have unlocked 2 suits, the Scarlet Spider (Peter's Clone) and one that has a lot of silver, never knew about this one.

I hope I can also unlock the spider man suit of Civil War, i loved that one

Clave

I'm going through the Wii version of the game, and man, i'm loving it with each swing i do

I agree the mission of "kill x number of y guys" are pretty anoying, but then again, all that fast paced slow motion fighting keeps me pretty thrill to the game.

Only one thing, the "Swinging From What Now?" phenomenom, I had only countered a couple of time, and mostly on the park, cuz when going through the city, hardly i get to swing on something when I'm in a higher position than the most taller building around me. I can't swing if my altitude isn't lower then the height of any near by building.

The only thing i'm complaining (don't if it happens on the other versions of the game) is the clipping on most things and clipping though wall when doing a web strike and the enemy is off my focus

Clave

@BrandonJF: I think Spidey 2 is held in such high regard is because of it's replay factor. Sure the main story was small and the missions weren't that varied, but webslinging was enjoyable. Many times I would ignore the missions and just swing around the city. And I don't know ANYONE who hasn't jumped off the empire state building and swung away at the last moment. (That's one of the things that killed Spidey 3 for me. If you did the above and didn't swing away, you would land on your feet and lose NO health whatsoever.)

Dyscord

@0bsessions: You could rent it.

peAr nectAr

@Demolitionist: Spiderman 1 had magic webbing, didn't it?

peAr nectAr

@danterandal19: I did too. Though I quickly picked it up earlier this year for about 10 bucks. I'm not letting it leave my hands ever again.

Dyscord

@Clave: I'm guessing he played this on the 360 or PS3, which have no extra suits.

BryanH

Personally, I haven't enjoyed a Spider Man game since Maximum Carnage for Genesis.

MasterYong

@Demolitionist: Actually I think Fahey may be making a little more of the "magic webbing" than should be made of it. As best as I can tell there are sections of the map the have a "roof" you can attach to. These tend to be some of the more "open" spots of the skyline. But anywhere's there's building you'll have to use them. So if you're in a section with low lying buildings, you won't be able to swing over them by attaching to the sky, you'll have to web-zip though them.

I do have to admit, I was dissapointed when I first found these "magic web zones", but over all the swinging is done well in this game. Though I do wish the web-zip had a little more speed to it.

worsethannormal

@AdmiralSnackbar: Apparently people think that this was set after the civil war saga so everyone knew who he was anyway.

Then again there's the contradiction of Venom being Eddie Brock.

Jaikarr

It always seems that a problem with these "go-anywhere-in-the-city" Spidey games that the missions are mostly really boring or tedious. :/ Then again most games don't have the scope or budget of GTA 4

Fishballs

@JohnnySacks:

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Rockstar should start licensing its cities out to other developers. It'd save other people time and money, and make them some.

I really liked the first PSX game and the first PS2 one (didn't play the other movie ones), but I think you can have the best of both worlds: have a full city to swing around in, but take some levels into alleys or buildings with a more linear feel.

Oh, I played Ultimate Spidey too and liked it. Best cell-shading yet imo

R1ZE

Well it sounds like i'll definetly pick this up when it drops down in price some. It sounds like a decent spidey game but i have too much on my plate in terms of games to pick up this holiday season then to get this right away

ArmyofJuan

@redflag:
There's magical webbing. I've climbed up the webbing to a clear blue portion of sky attached to nothing. It's there, it's not common, but it still occurs.

Mommar

You swing from nothing? well idk i have the game an he only swings when hes near buildings if im way the heck up in the air an throw a web i get nothing till im near high rise buildings :S so i cant swing in clouds.. as much as id like that.

theblade

Nice Review and spot-on too. The combat is great the fighting they nailed perfect but with no variety to the optional missions, no unlockables like the Scarlet Spidey costume and the fact that Spidey voice actor sucks this game could have been something special.

If they can add to this and find a way to add more variety and unlockables the next Spidey game should be great.

Its still a fun game but with no much else to do other then defeat some amount of enemies it gets old.

WolfGod

You know, I'm kinda sad a lot of people only remember good Spider-Man games as early as the Spider-Man movie games... what about the PSX Spider-Man? I remembered when that game came out everyone thought that was the ultimate Spider-Man game?

W10002

@0bsessions:
The combat is fast a fluid just like you'd expect Spider-Man to fight. I'm not sure it's like Ninja Gaiden, but I'm not really sure what you mean by that anyway. If you're a huge Spider-Man fan you should find it fun. Though peAr nectAr is right, you could just rent it.

Mommar

@Spiral: I did just star playing SM3, and I have to say the Bruce Campbell tutorials are just plan freaking amazing.

Wainut

The 'swing from nothing' comments only really apply when you are in park-type areas that are flat with no surrounding buildings and only trees. Then, yes, they do let you swing around despite no buildings in the area. Other then that, you have to be near a building to swing. I guess its not realistic, but no one wants to walk around with Spidey, am I right?

BryanH

@Spiral: Personally I found the combat in 2 vastly superior to 3, the voice acting was better as was the story and there was just so much unnecessary garbage in 3, like the quick time events. Also web slinging in 3 was so boring compared to 2 due to the fact that in two you could perform all kinds of stunts after jumping from your web line.

Vedli

@Lazlo: Either that or there's a lot of low flying planes around New Yor...

Uh oh, It literally just dawned on me that might not of been the best pun to make. is this joke okay?

Vedli

Swinging From What Now?: Ah, so we've regressed back to the early days of Spider-Man, when his web line can attach to the very clouds themselves. Developers may call it a design decision. I call it a crutch.

This is the only thing I don't agree with. But I understand where your coming from. Great Review though

Jawmuncher

@Kyolux: "You can go anywhere" is essential to Spiderman, IMO.

AstralSymphony

@TheIrishNinja: You're an Irish Ninja Zombie?

So do you, like, stealthily descend on people stumbling out of bars and then eat their brains? Or do you have a pint and then stealthily eat brains?

Zero_Beat

@Mommar: I'd considered a rental, but honestly, between all the crap I have going on at any given time, I rarely get a proper opportunity to get a real feel for a game on just a rental these days.

0bsessions

You have very few moments where you aren't actually webbing onto something.

How can that ruin the experience?

liqideos

You forgot to mention Ultimate Spiderman, that came after Spiderman 2 adn before Friend Or Foe!

KatrinaLebanon

The reason why all of the Spider-Man games since Spider-man 2 have been "misses" is because most of the original team members responsible for Spider-man 1 and Spider-man 2 have left Treyarch since then.

MadgePashosh

I rented this from Gamefly, and I cannot be more disappointed. I find this game near unplayable because of the camera. It is awful, the story was ok. And like its been said awful voice acting, and I really miss the webbing that attached to the buildings...I was hoping for Spiderman 2 HD with Venom. Lol.

bigmil87

Not just a Spider-Man title, but why is it there isn't many good superhero titles these days? It seems like a no-brainer for video games, but they are often pretty stale when it comes to gameplay. The upcoming Infamous looks like a decent attempt. And although many RPG superhero titles work great (ex: City of Heroes, Freedom Force), I really want something that lets you be the superhero in an action-adventure style.

SecCom

@BryanH: :
I still could only do zip lines over the parks and only from tree to tree =/ so I still don't see the swing from nothing part.

ThatMiamiDude

@W10002: I surely remember the PSX/PC games and loved them. Don't forget good ole SNES Spidey games too =p

ThatMiamiDude

@theblade: Exactly what I was saying.

ThatMiamiDude

@WolfGod: The Wii version has unlockables. I say the Wii version is the better bet.

ThatMiamiDude

@worsethannormal:
You are kind of right, except more often than not, your webline will attach *beside* the building.

It's true that you can't webswing say, through the sky across central park, you're still essentially doing the 60s webswing and it's stupid.

Tizlor

I too thought his voice acting was bad at first especially his yelling, but his banter and narrating was pretty good. I also like the web slinging. The only time I questioned it was in the park and then I just zip lined myself from tree to tree, but if I was way up in the air I wasn't swinging on a cloud I was falling to my doom.

orangesaft

Ok here's the deal people, A. the web-swinging from the clouds, happens once, in central park, not all over the game as the review seems to present it, B. the voice acting comes off whiny 3 or 4 times not like they got Fran Drecher to voice Spidey, other than that good voice acting, 3. the camera is disorienting OCCASIONALLY, why because your dealing with a guy who can climb on walls and on the roof camera will always be an issue, 4. extras have been lacking in many other games past after SM 1 such as SPM 2 and USM so I don't know what games he played. In conclusion, great game for the common folks, amazing game for fans.

Guermo

Spider-man's voice got more bearable as you go through... you get used to it.

But anyway, I thought this was the best Spider-man game yet. It's got great graphics, gameplay, and story, and those are the most important aspects of a game. The music was great too.

ppppp

i always thought spidey was supposed to sound like a noobish teen. if i went back and looked at most comics, i bet i'd find him making snarky remarks to his foes and stupid puns. the beginning dialogue was corney and poorly-spoken, but it got better as the game progressed. all in all, i think this is the best spidey game out there.

soldier148

sounds like i'll be gameflying this for a weekend, but definitely not sounding like a buy at this point.

demonknightinuyasha

@LandMineLandSnake: he NEVER had really big muscles. His spider powers tightened his muscle structure sorta like how captain america was an unfit toothpick before he got the super soldier serum.

ManjiKengo reads DuneTiger reads Kotaku, seems pleased.

@Sotiris: I 100% disagree. Ultimate's "unlock the world" idea of progression was stupid, the one handed swing-jump-swing mechanics were a huge step backward, and the Venom interludes were annoying and boring.

Ultimate Spider-Man was better than the first and third movie tie-ins, but fails to capture the fun freedom of Spider-Man Two's webslinging.

Balius

@strugler: You guys are dumb. There absolutely IS magical webbing, which happened quite frequently throughout my two playthroughs. It wasn't exactly rare either - 1 out of every 4 web swings was usually attached to nothing.

AJMarra

@BrandonJF: I agree. People are looking at SM2 with rose-tinted glasses.

Sure, it was fun at the time but you have to look at the fact that as a Spider-Man fan you've just seen a film you probably really liked (I was non-plussed and actually picked the game up after USM, since a friend recommended it) and you were maybe expecting a crappy tie-in game. Instead you got, oooh, a sandbox game.

The combat in SM2 was dreadful. It was never fluid and beating three mechasuit guys was nigh on impossible and the boss fights were equally awful. Not to mention the story was seriously lacking because of the unfocused sandbox element (what most sandbox games suffer from) being linked to a film plotline.

My point is basically, judge the game on its own merits rather than the hazy recall of what SM2 was. Repetition, camera issues and bad phoned-in voice acting would all be cons for SM2 without the upside of great combat or a half-decent story.

You kinda need to look at WoS like Assassin's Creed, it has a pretty good central focus but DO NOT BOTHER WITH THE SIDE MISSIONS.

Having said all that, I haven't noticed glitches but they seriously need to sort out the frequent framerate slowdown. I bought the game for my PS3 (my 360 was off for repair thanks to the RROD) and did a 1GB install...for what?

hot_heart

@Wainut: Better than the Bruce Campbell tutorials in 1 & 2?

Megaman LXIX

@Kyolux: While I don't totally agree, I'm glad you brought up the PSX Spider-Man, that game was great and is highly unrated. I loved the combat in that game, and it was definitely better than the boring Spider-Man 2 game (fortunately that game was extra short).

Megaman LXIX

@Tizlor: Yeah, I've been paying closer attention and the magic webbing happens a lot more than I thought at first. Most of the times it seems to stop like a foot short of the buildings. But you don't see it most of the time.

worsethannormal

Webs attach to the clouds?
just dropped off my buy list.

noesmano

@MadgePashosh: Most of us stuck around through Ultimate Spider-Man, THEN we bailed :)

VenetiaGoldsboro

So like should i buy it?

flame92

Let me guess, this game is much better than the movie games but its more like a sequel to the psx1 games. I am sadden that the game isn't that good with the choice in missions.

BloodHoundforthebread

@0bsessions: Seriously don't listen to the negatie reviews. Get. This. Game. I loved Spider-man 2 enjoyed Ultimate and wanted to hurl Spider-Man 3 at a toddler and I L O V E D Web of Shadows amazing combat and better swinging than Spidey 2!

MurielAnakes

Everytime someone mentions SM2, I have a bad flashback where all I hear are children whining about "my balloon!"

Mal-Content

@SpcmnSpf: agreed

tylerstyle

@hot_heart: Are you kidding me? I had about 8 complete crashes in about 6 hours of Playtime on my PS3.
One crash was the best. I web slinged into the street, got stuck and could do nothing. Then the game Auto saved. I got nothing left to do, but to reset. After that I loaded the save. Guess what. Insta-death and then? The game freezes, instead of setting you on a roof or something.
I had to load a freaking old save and lost all will to do it again.
Instead I now chose to just swing around the city, when I want to, without ever finishing the game. It's just not worth it.

tylerstyle

@Vedli: hehehehehe

ThursdayNext

@VenetiaGoldsboro: And that was an awesome Game, as well. More comic like, true. But good as hell.
I miss the races... And the POLISH...
Web of Shadows crashed about 8 times till now in a play time less then 6 hours.
It's not even close to bearable.

tylerstyle

@ThursdayNext: SInce we are bitching about realism perhaps the web should shoot from somewhere closer to peter Parkers ass than his wrists! Who cares if you can attach to clouds its better than walking!

onepoker

@ca36gtp:
I've played it. It's not as bad as it once was. It seems there are only invisible cranes he can attach to when there are tall building relatively close to him.

They go away when Spidey exceeds their height. Then it's all about attaching your line to enemies themselves.

FireflyPunk

I know this isn't the forum for this, but is there a list anywhere of games where the camera DOES work properly? just wondering what good examples of camera are, since the latest titles all seem to share this flaw.

dirtybacon

Well, I'm one of the spidey fanatics, and didn't HATE 3. I didn't like it though. I guess I just miss 2 so much that I'm grasping for anything, but I think the combat in web of shadows is enough for me to buy it. Great review.

Sickofitall

@tylerstyle: That sounds pretty bad. I guess I'm just lucky...well, lucky not to have glitches; slowdown is a bitch.

I remember all the furor over the Mass Effect glitches and I never saw a single one either.

The PS3 usually gets screwed with their version of multiplatform games anyway.

hot_heart

@onepoker: Firstly, why are you picking on me? :(

Secondly, technically the webs should come from the canisters up his sleeves. He's not a Man-Spider. He's Spiderman! :)

ThursdayNext

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