What can I really say? I'm a huge Spider-Man fan and if you're like me, all of the game's hiccups really gravitate a game that many will call sorta mediocre. With cameos like Luke Cage and Wolverine and the inclusion of putting the web slinger back in black, all I can say is this is fan service of the highest order. Is it a great game? Not quite but this is the best Spider-Man game in ages, my personel favorite next to the old Play Station game.
The developers put Spider-Man in the GTA sandbox gameplay again and here it's done much better than in the previous movie games. The side missions are still a bit repetitive but it's kinda cool saving citizens from harm and fighting several different styles of enemies when the city explodes with bedlam. Best of all, no red balloons!
Swinging around the city is really fun this time and the game is much bigger than Ultimate Spider-Man which was relatively short. The aerial combat is awesome and easily the best part of the game. Here you also get a new spin on things, the combat allows you to mix up combos by switching back and forth with the symbiote and the classic red and blue. Each style of play is unique and feels completely it's own.One problem is the value system which rates your good and bad deeds, save someone, it goes up, throw a car it goes down. The whole thing seemed really innovative but they really could have explored it much more.
Some problems are hard to overlook. Some missions have you repeating the same attack over a dozen times which gets really old after a while. The bosses are decent, you go toe to toe with wolverine, venom, and the vulture which is nice but they should have added some more. With all these symbiotes running around, where's carnage? The biggest problem I had with the game is almost a killer though, with all of the increasing chaos going on around the city, the framerate drops to a snails pace which is a real shame considering how pretty everything looks. Towards the end of the game I felt like I was watching a slide show and I'm not exaggerating at all, it nearly make the game almost unplayable.
All of that being said, when the game was firing on all cylinders I couldn't help but enjoy myself. The gameplay might be a bit of a button masher but cool moments like teaming up with Moon Knight and fighting Wolverine absorbed by a symbiote are excellent. The voice acting is well done and the story is just as ridiculous as it needs to be. All of the little nuances do so much to save this thing. This here is clearly a game meant for the fans and if you are one, you're in for a real treat.Get more detail about Spider-Man: Web of Shadows.
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