G4 Review: Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions

'Now that Batman: Arkham Asylum has significantly upped the ante on super-hero games, it’s not surprising to see more developers trying to broaden the horizons of other comic book-based do-gooders. Spider-Man has at least had a reasonably decent track history for games, but Activision wisely decided to mix things up for the web-slinger’s latest adventure. Shattered Dimensions moves away from the open-world format, which felt precariously in need of a revamp, and instead, chooses to focus on character and combat.'

[Erotic Sheep]

Could it be? O.o

DEAR GOD!! We may actually have a decent Spiderman game coming out!

[eggbert]

Spiderman 2. :D

[Erotic Sheep]

Since Spiderman 2 every game has been complete shovelware. Considering the game came out more than 7 years ago..I'd say thats a very long time.

[BiggCMan]

6 years man, july, or june i think, of 2004. anyways, this game has looked great ever since it was announced. cant wait to play it.

[meganick]

Spidey 2 was good at first but quickly got repetitive.

[topdawg122]

I liked Ultimate Spiderman a couple of years back.

[DarkTower805]

This might be the 1st Spiderman game I've tried in a loooong time. It looks like devs are starting to take movie/comic book games seriously.

[Bathyj]

Actually I think inFamous "upped the ante" before Batman.

It just wasnt an established superhero.

[krouse93]

I think I have gotten to the point where I can discern from photo's and videos and developer diaries how well a game is going to score lol. That's either really good or really bad depending on how you look at it.

[BannedForNineYears]

Spiderman 2 was so awesome. ;3
Now we're back to shooting web into the clouds.
I loved how you actually had to use buildings in Spiderman 2. >:[
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Rocket Sauce]

Spiderman 2 is nearly perfect. I've never played another game where just moving around was so much fun.

[jdigitalseven]

SM3 (PS3/360 version) was a great game. The Wii/PS2 version of SM3 was crap though (couldnt even run for some stupid reason, just walk). Batman AA had good graphics and by far the best Batman game ever, but it was a button masher that forced you to stay in detective mode 3/4 of the game. Plus the map in Batman AA was little help, no jump button either. Batman AA was probably hyped because of the unreal engine they used. Stealth isnt fun after a while and really slows everything down. SM2 started the web slinging art in a sandbox, SM3 took the combat to the next level. The graphics were good for its time too. I dunno why the SM franchise, game wise, keeps taking things away mechanics that work.

[Wolf873]

doesn't put it on par with Batman Arkham Asylum. I thought that game too was linear with limited freedom, same as this?

[PS3-247]

The game looks to be good. I see alot of things was copied from Batman Arkham Asylum but it's cool. Everyone copies. I wouldn't pay full price for this though. I'll get it when a price cut comes.

[IneedWeed]

I liked SM3, everyone says that failed, but I think it was fun for a while. Batman AA was great, but I thought it was slightly too short and could use some improvements. Can't wait to try this game out, and of course getting the new Batman game asap(that's going to be a while). I always felt spiderman games had so many potential, but developers never do it the way spiderman was supposed to be played. This looks promising though.