Our hero, Peter Parker, is still living in the Big Apple, where he rescues pedestrians, battles super-villains…and tries to keep a handle on his personal life. Now this may sound easy, but let's see you try to fight the Rhino and still have enough time to get to class on time. This game covers every aspect of the trials and tribulations of the Amazing Spider-Man.
With the exception of cars and people on the street, the graphics were superbly well done. The buildings and trees are so realistic that you would swear that you were actually swinging down Times Square and Central Park. Spidey himself has a great range of motion, everything from just running down the street to jumping off the very top of the Empire State Building and saving yourself a split second before you hit the pavement. All the motions are fluid and believable. Well as believable as a wall-crawling super-hero can appear, I mean you don't see too many of those in this day and age, so who can judge?
Now one thing that can get annoying after a day or two is the music and voice acting. Every twenty minutes or so, music will begin to play that personally reminds me of fighting a boss, which can be irritating after the seventh or eighth time you hear it. While it sounds like there are quite a few different people in charge of voice acting, the lines are all the same. Lines like, "I'm not waving my hands for my health here," and "Spidey, a carjacker just took that guy's car, it was awful," can get righteously annoying.
Getting a hold of web swinging takes merely minutes, and unlike the last game, web swinging is possibly the most fun part. After you get the hang of it, you won't want to complete the main missions. When I first purchased the game, I could kill about 2 hours just cruising the city, speeding around corners and narrowly missing buildings. Not exactly an adrenaline rush, but fun anyways. Fighting is fairly simple, with tons of upgrades that can be purchased to enhance your fighting style. Part of fighting is dodging bullets, doing this builds up your "Spider-Sense" meter, which is basically similar to "bullet-time" in Enter the Matrix. This slows down everything and makes your punches and kicks more accurate and more powerful, but keep an eye on it, because it empties pretty quickly.
Most of the missions in this game are pretty simple, but some of the chases might take you a few tries to beat. The only real tough act is to successfully make Spidey land where you want him to, which is important when you are rescuing people from drowning on a sinking boat, or trying to get different types of "tokens" (Buoy tokens in this case) throughout the city. The tokens are another adventure in themselves; these will have you searching every square inch of Manhattan as well as Roosevelt, Ellis, and Liberty Islands. Once you have beaten the game, you might want to try to defeat all of the Challenges, which vary in difficulty. Each challenge consists of a race through multiple checkpoints, but if this sounds easy, then try going through these checkpoints while performing a certain move, such as wall sprinting or wall climbing. Yea, not so easy now is it? |
