Spider-Man: Edge of Time - Part 3

[TheVileOne]

Not really a "superhero" game, but Prototype 2 is also going to be free roam.

Web slinging in Edge of Time isn't bad. It looks good, but it still does not work as well as Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2. The camera angles on the web slinging also look really cool and dynamic, very comic book-like. Combat is also on the rough side but has some cool ideas. Definitely a far cry of the free flow of Arkam Ayslum that Captain America: Super Soldier tried and failed to imitate. Super Soldier was also a big disappointment because I mean I see the beginnings of a great game in there its execution is just flawed. It is clear they wanted to mimic and basically just be a Captain America version of Arkham Asylum. Frack, I would've taken Wolverine's Revenge at least, that is an underrated game.

 

[Anno_Domini]

The first Prototype game was free roam as well. The story needed some work, but overall it was a very fun gaming experience.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

You'd think, but with the way Activision works, they'd see those good sales and say "look they love our game JUST the way it is, do it again". I mean look at the Tony Hawk series, the guitar hero series and the call of duty series. If you didnt know, 2 of those series have been canceled due to over saturation.

They never learn
I said that remembering Dr. Doom from the 80s Spider-Man cartoon, best Dr. Doom in animation (story, design, and voice, also not watered down with the censoring of word "DEATH")

I'm starting to miss free roam...I dunno where that came from but I was just thinking about how I haven't played a free roam Spidey game in a while...better pop that SM2 game in soon.

Do so if you miss free roam, it's the only way

I doubt it, but I hope the Amazing Spider-Man game, which will probably suck seeing as how the movie is 11 months away, is at least free roam. If not...I'm sad. Though I probably won't buy it without looking at reviews, and there is a good chance it will suck, but no free roam would still make me sad.

Reviews suck, Web of Shadows >> SD, but the first was shot at in reviews for being repetitive and the latter praised for having 4 different Spider-Man decreasing repetition, as if it did, both games suck imo

Ignore ASM movie tie-in entirely, everyone know it will suck, it will be a rehash in gameplay, and too worthless both as purchase and as rental

Not just you two...

So confident this game would suck, I kind of like that

 

[Oscorp]

the next spidey should be free roaming but it needs to be done right. Most of the other free roaming games are lifeless. I never thought Spider-Man 2 was a great game and I don't see why everyone else does. It's incredibly lifeless and boring. I'd say Ultimate Spider-Man proved that you can do a free roaming game and make it interesting and fun for many hours.

I agree with this

 

[The Caped Knight]

New interview with Katie Sackhoff (Black Cat 2099):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gc-11-spider-man-edge/719224

Interesting another Battlestar Galactica Alumni voices Black Cat in a Spider-Man game.

Tricia Helfer voiced Felicia Hardy/Black Cat in Web of Shadows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOswT01myag

 

[Spider-Aziz]

the next spidey should be free roaming but it needs to be done right. Most of the other free roaming games are lifeless. I never thought Spider-Man 2 was a great game and I don't see why everyone else does. It's incredibly lifeless and boring. I'd say Ultimate Spider-Man proved that you can do a free roaming game and make it interesting and fun for many hours.

Cause they did things in SM2 that aren't there in USM, that made SM2 city lifeless in comparison
In gameplay Spider-Man 2 is leagues better (with exception to what you need do to hang someone from a lamppost, or enemies dodging your every attack), so I don't cry over spilled milk
Web swinging is great, pole swing is great, combat mechanics are great, carrying some thugs while swinging is great, entering buildings for some stuff or simply out of boredom is great

 

[Troy_Parker]

So I got Web Of Shadows today, for my PS3... I had it on my PC, never completed it.

So far, I like it. I'm not sure if the complaints about this game were mostly about the story and cast, but gameplay wise, it's good. The swinging feels fluid, y'know... how the swinging in a Spider-Man game should feel like. I've always hated the flashy light up attacks but the slow down between punches and all that is pretty cool aswell.

 

[The Caped Knight]

So I got Web Of Shadows today, for my PS3... I had it on my PC, never completed it.

So far, I like it. I'm not sure if the complaints about this game were mostly about the story and cast, but gameplay wise, it's good. The swinging feels fluid, y'know... how the swinging in a Spider-Man game should feel like. I've always hated the flashy light up attacks but the slow down between punches and all that is pretty cool aswell.

My main problem with Web of Shadows was the voice actor of Spider-Man his voice was annoying as hell and not in the charming classic Spidey way .

 

[spider13]

all the voice actors sucked, Ok maybe a few where good. one of my problems with wos was sometimes I would be swinging along and if I swing into a corner of a building I sometimes went into it and had to restart the system.

that ever happen to anyone else

 

[Oscorp]

WoS sucks hard IMO.

 

[Marvel Spider]

I think Shattered Dimensions was leaps and bounds better than Web of Shadows. The story was better, gameplay was better, and it was much more engaging over all, IMO.

With that said, they need to find a way to make free roam fun again. I deeply enjoyed the level design of Shattered Dimensions (although that Lady Ock level was waaaay too repetitive), but I think they should find a way to merge the level design of SD and a fun, lively, gratifying free roam game.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

WoS sucks hard IMO.

Yea WoS was easily the worst Spidey game, ever. Gah the voice acting was sooooo bad

 

[Oscorp]

^I agree.

However, the Doc Ock level wasn't worse than the Scorpion one if you ask me. That one was horrible, ugh!

EDIT: I forgot to quote Pac-Master

 

[The Caped Knight]

all the voice actors sucked, Ok maybe a few where good.

one of my problems with wos was sometimes I would be swinging along and if I swing into a corner of a building I sometimes went into it and had to restart the system.

that ever happen to anyone else

Steven Blum as Wolverine and Tricia Helfer as Black Cat were the only good voice actors for Web of Shadows.

I enjoyed the free roam of web-slinging and web-ziping all around NYC similar to Spider-Man 2 and the combat was pretty enjoyable. However the story sucked big time, The boss battles got old pretty fast and the voice acting with the exception of Wolverine and Black Cat was downright horrible .

 

[Troy_Parker]

Damn, didn't realize people hated it that much. O_O

 

[Nathan]

Well, IMO it didn't have much going for it, expect for a damn fun Symbiont Spider-Man.

 

[Troy_Parker]

While I'm not saying WoS is a good game, I do know that there is a bit of a mob mentality when it comes to games and movies on here... soo... >_>

The concept of good/bad decisions leading to different endings/scenarios is a very good one, the way they went about it is what what made it seem kinda crap. :\

Don't really like the voice actor for Spidey... he just sounds... really wrong. :\

Apart from the odd glitch, etc... I'm enjoying the gameplay so far.

 

[GamerSlyRatchet]

Well, IMO it didn't have much going for it, expect for a damn fun Symbiont Spider-Man.

Even the symbiote Spidey stuff I didn't like. For some reason, the symbiote makes him completely evil, rather than slightly more aggressive or selfish. I would say it was a lazy attempt to rip off the InFamous morality system..but that came a few months after.

And I think only SM2 had the best swinging. I hate to swing from an invisible ceiling in the sky.

 

[Nathan]

I'm not talking about personality though. I just loved pounding the crap out of enemies with him. Felt so satisfying.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

While I'm not saying WoS is a bad game.

Well you need to, because it's pretty bad.

 

[Alchemyst]

WoS was really bad, definitely one of those games where I found myself playing it on mute because I couldnt stand Spidey's voice, whiney little *****

 

[Troy_Parker]

Well you need to, because it's pretty bad.

I actually meant *good. lol

And again, it's one of the only non-movie related free roam games since USM.

I got what I paid for... (£5) xD

And Alc, agreed on that. No idea why the hell they choose... whoever the hell is voicing him.

But from a gameplay point of view, it's not as bad as it could have been. Web swinging is fun, and so is the combat... most of the time.

I'm still waiting on the day somebody finally makes a Spider-Man game that has a good story, and is free roam...

 

[ProjectPat2280]

I borrowed the game and honestly, I couldn't even complete it. I turned it off a few hours in and never thought of going back. Maybe one day I'll force myself to complete it

 

[Spider-Aziz]

So I got Web Of Shadows today, for my PS3... I had it on my PC, never completed it.

So far, I like it. I'm not sure if the complaints about this game were mostly about the story and cast, but gameplay wise, it's good. The swinging feels fluid, y'know... how the swinging in a Spider-Man game should feel like. I've always hated the flashy light up attacks but the slow down between punches and all that is pretty cool aswell.

I got all the four endings on PC before my graphics card got damaged

My main problem with Web of Shadows was the voice actor of Spider-Man his voice was annoying as hell and not in the charming classic Spidey way .

all the voice actors sucked, Ok maybe a few where good. one of my problems with wos was sometimes I would be swinging along and if I swing into a corner of a building I sometimes went into it and had to restart the system.

that ever happen to anyone else

Didn't happen to me, only glitches I got in the game is everyone tossing Spider-Man 50 feet or more behind and once there was a car on the roof

WoS sucks hard IMO.

Didn't you place my "review" as this before?

Yea WoS was easily the worst Spidey game, ever. Gah the voice acting was sooooo bad

Voice acting is OK -excluding Kingpin, an X-Men TAS reject- choice of actors was more meh
I used to think it was the worst, until I made a deeper second play in SD

I think Shattered Dimensions was leaps and bounds better than Web of Shadows. The story was better, gameplay was better, and it was much more engaging over all, IMO.

I used to think that way, but giving it more look Shattered Dimensions has a dumber story that could have ended in the first cinematic, and the DP & Kraven stages are the dumbest
A game where you do the exact same thing 12 times forcing you 30 minutes every time is not better than a Sandbox game in gameplay, at least WoS has better swinging, and not that messed up in people you need to save where you have to fight 50 or so enemies with every person you save, and just as your favor is done there is no need for further rescue

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Blue haired chicks are that? Why?