Spider-man 3 REVIEW

Peter Parker's alter-ago adds another kick-ass game to his repertoire. Spider-Man 3, will amaze Spider-Man and action games fans alike. The sequel fixes the major complaints of the first game (generally the repetitive nature of side missions) and polishes everything up. The PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game are essentially the same, although the PS3 does have some differences.

Spider-Man 3 follows the movies plot. It begins right after the prequel ended with Peter finally getting his life in order. Of course, this cheery mood doesn't last very long. In Spider-Man 3, the game, you'll be able to relive the movie and classic action sequences against Sandman, Green Goblin and Venom but Treyarch also added a lot of additional plot lines not based directly on the movie. Some of these involve additional villains (Scorpion, Rhino, The Lizard etc etc) while others task you with doing something like protecting New York City.

Of course, the main reason to pick up Spider-Man 3 was the swinging mechanics. As great as they were in the prequel, they're even better in Spider-Man 3. Spider-Man is faster and more acrobatic in this game. For instance, you can swing around poles with ease. After a few moments, you'll be swinging around, going around corners, around light posts, and running up walls with ease. Combat has also been improved in the game so there is more to do and a larger variety in the move set. It is also faster-paced and more fulfilling thanks to a quicker Spider-Man and a greater variety of moves. Dodging and counter-attacking is emphasized in the game since Spider-Man's spider sense goes off before he's going to be attacked, which gives you opportunity to dodge or counterattack. The game also includes a new spider sense system (which works similar to the goggle filters in the Splinter Cell games) to detect hidden items and enemies. A simple click of R3 turns the screen black and white while objects/things of importance are highlighted in various other colours in order for you to home in on them. Some people take this as a kind of dumbening down but in actuality its very similar to how Spideys spider-sense works in the first place.

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[DrWan]

hm, a 9

[PhinneousD]

a 9??? :-/ lmao. so it's on par with games like the god of wars, the halos, and the gears? fanboys shouldn't be writing video game reviews.

[23478ueyur_938223]

LOL! I agree!

This game was so bashed too...oh well. To each their own? I guess.

It's funny how he says "SP3". "SPiderman 3"? I think he meant SM3.

[Caxtus750]

lol i know! its good but not great....7 id say

[lil bush]

wow, that was unexpected...

[videogamenews]

hey guys, I didn't write it :p

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[btkadams]

lol it should be like a 7.5

[Robotz Rule]

A 9?

I'm left breathless!

LOL:)!

[ITR]

It only needs a 6.

Best to rent and to not buy.

[Birdman18]

i think this review is about 2 weeks too late, dont ya think?? and its definately, not a 9!! this game is garbage

[Figboy]

i'm probably one of the biggest Spider-Man fans out there, and i give the game a 6.5, maybe a 7 on a good day.

i mean, come on, what Activision/Treyarch shill wrote this review?

the game is flawed on so many levels, and after playing, even in demo form, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, and games like Resistance, Motorstorm, Crackdown, even Gears of War (which i'm not a fan of, but i digress), i think it's safe to say that Activision and Treyarch are, at least, 3 generations behind everyone else when it comes to game design.

i guess if you call a static city, with sterile environments and close to 0% interactivity revolutionary, i suppose it can get a 9/10 out of that.

the swinging is still the highlight, but they fail to really capture the things that make Spider-Man an interesting character when he's not punching bad guys in the teeth.

the story in this game is laughable (and not in the good way), and though the game gets points for trying to shake things up a bit mission wise, you still stop way too many rampaging cars and groups of thugs. also, Peter Parker is poorly implented in this game, and the plot of the film is really relegated to just three or four main missions, scattered throughout this *OTHER stuff they cooked up, that isn't nearly as compelling.

destructable environments (and games are capable of this, especially on hardware like the PS3 and 360), better integrated photo missions for Peter (ie, you get a digital camera, with a shutter timer, and you have to perform all sorts of cool tricks, or combat manuevers, while the camera snaps pictures, then you take them to the Bugle, and haggle with JJJ. he pays you, and you can use the money you earn for more upgrades, and better film; for a longer shutter time to perform dazzling Spider-Man acts), interaction with the citizens - there should be a crime index that actually *EFFECTS the city, and if you're being lax as Spidey, not taking out crimes, you may just find a bottle smacking you in the head, and hearing boos from the citizens, as they're not quite happy with your superheroing - or you can just pick them up, throw them, swing around with them, etc, which all effect their perception of you as a hero or menace. not to mention having random crimes break out that actually star major villains (say you're swinging around town, and suddenly an explosion goes off blocks away, completely random and unscripted. you swing over there to check it out, and the Shocker has decided to rob a bank. a battle ensues, and, ideally, you'd spank his @ss and send him to jail. these sorts of events would happen in between the random petty thugs).

you should also be able to switch between Pete and Spidey on the fly, so you can take more pictures, and interact with the citizens in a different way.

one final thing would be: multi-player superhero/villain slugfests. imagine you and 3-7 friends select a hero or villain (ie, Daredevil, Black Cat, Doc Ock, Green Goblin, etc), and are set loose on a fully destructable New York, where you're battling it out, tossing one another through buildings, into the harbor, down into sewers and subways, with all of your powers and abilities at your disposal. it'd be awesome. the city would reset it's damage after the match. by the time the round is over, you could have the whole damn city be a pile of rubble.

all of these things aren't hard to with this generation of software, but Activision is just too damn cheap to invest the money and manpower, and most of all *TIME to do these things.

i should know, i used to work for them. they care about profit, and milking their franchises more than creating a quality video game.

this game is a real disappointment (unless you just want a really, really polished swing engine). this game would have rocked, oh, i dunno, 4 years ago. now, it just looks and feels dated in every way imaginable: sound, graphics, atmosphere, and most importantly, gameplay and game design. Treyarch can do better than this.

i'm pissed that my love of Spider-Man led me to buy this game. i hope Marvel retracts the license and gives it to a better developer (like Ubisoft Montreal; the Prince of Persia series rocks, and Assassin's Creed is exactly how i'd imaging Spidey crawling up walls and hopping around, albiet more flashy, like the Prince).