Spider-Man: Web of Shadows

[venom892]

If someone can put in spoiler tags what heroes and villians have you encounter so far?

 

[Spider-X]

Guys...thanks for all your comments! and due to what you have said and my own experience with being a spidey freak and owning all the games (I even got plenty of enjoyment out of SM3) I will be buying this game from amazon.com later today!

DACMAN, thanks for the webslinging post on the last page...you have me very stoked! I'm glad they put the climbing up the webline like in USM...when i was playing SM3 i was like "Why the hell isn't that movie in this?" and now it's back.

And I haven't read one single person who owns the game on this site or gamefaqs.com that agrees with the IGN review score.

Sweet deal! I'm excited to get this game again!

 

[Alchemyst]

After purchasing the game today, I dont know what that dude on IGN is talking about, so far, everything seems pretty solid to me. I honestly think that this game truly delivers the experience of being Spider-man. As far as the story, I dont find it confusing at all, the combat system is by far way better than any other Spider-man game that I have played, the way you can attack enemies in mid-air reminds me of his Maximum Spider supermove in the Marvel vs. Capcom games. I really dont get why the reviewer made a gripe about the graphics, all of the character models represent their comic book counterparts very well. I do agree that some of the dialog sounds a little cheesy, but that can be overlooked. If anyone is doubting this game based on the reviews, I would say rent it and if you find yourself having alot of fun, then plop down 60 bucks for it.

A friend of mine brought over the psp version of the game and I can tell you right now, from what I played, it isn't very fun at all. The game is a sidescroller, the combat is nowhere near as eye catching as it is on the next gen consoles. I wouldn't purchase this one psp owners, if you have a psp with hacked firmware, i think you know what you need to do.

 

[Nathan]

And I haven't read one single person who owns the game on this site or gamefaqs.com that agrees with the IGN review.

Well, I agree with the repetitiveness. So far all I do is jump from gang to gang and beat the **** out of them. Which is easy as cake. Oh, and from time to time I bring civilians to the hospital.

And Spidey is indeed annoying. There are times where he sounds great as Spidey. There are some lines, he delivers perfectly and almost sounds like the definite Spider-Man to me. All the other times I want to shoot him.

But I haven't played far. Total of 2-3 hours. Had too much to do today.

 

[Alchemyst]

Well, I agree with the repetitiveness. So far all I do is jump from gang to gang and beat the **** out of them. Which is easy as cake. Oh, and from time to time I bring civilians to the hospital.

And Spidey is indeed annoying. There are times where he sounds great as Spidey. There are some lines, he delivers perfectly and almost sounds like the definite Spider-Man to me. All the other times I want to shoot him.

But I haven't played far. Total of 2-3 hours. Had too much to do today.

I'm in the same boat Nathan, I've had so much stuff to do today, I only got to play for about 2 hours, I wish there was an option to turn off Spider-man's dialog, but its ok, I can deal with it.

 

[0neDisturbedSOB]

Exactly. It's bad.

 

[Nathan]

I'll probably get around playing it another 2 hours tomorrow, but then I'll have to take it back. Friday is the last day I have remotely time to play.

 

[Alchemyst]

I'll probably get around playing it another 2 hours tomorrow, but then I'll have to take it back. Friday is the last day I have remotely time to play.

Are you considering buying the game?

 

[Nathan]

Not yet. Other than the swinging and combat, there hasn't been really anything that wowed me. And I already encountered some glitches, like the game freezing and NPCs being invisible.

 

[Alchemyst]

Not yet. Other than the swinging and combat, there hasn't been really anything that wowed me. And I already encountered some glitches, like the game freezing and NPCs being invisible.

Oh yeah, I ran across an invisible NPC, but as far as freezing, nope.

 

[0neDisturbedSOB]

I did have a freezing issue last night. It happens.

 

[Nathan]

To be honest with you, the biggest problem I have with the game is the really, really bad box art cover. It's terrible. It looks like the cover to some cheesy 80's movie about street justice.

Well, then it does the job, doesn't it? Because all you do at the beginning is clean the street off gangs.

 

[Alchemyst]

i dunno, maybe it might run into at some point, but so far, so good

 

[Matt Murdock]

The "My Face" banter between Wolverine and Spider-Man was one of my favorite moments in the game thus far.

 

[0neDisturbedSOB]

Well, then it does the job, doesn't it? Because all you do at the beginning is clean the street off gangs.

Box art (at least good box art) is supposed to capture the feeling of the entire game, not just the first few levels.

 

[Gallagher]

Bah I've decided I'll get this, the combat looks interesting enough and swinging around is always fun.

 

[The Guardian]

DURING THE PART [BLACKOUT]WHEN WOLVERINE IS WITH YOU WHEN HE FIRST SHOWS UP AND WE'RE FIGHTING THE INFECTED PEOPLE BEFORE YOU ARE ABLE TO USE HIM AS ONE OF YOUR ALLIES,[/BLACKOUT] I CALLED IN LUKE CAGE AND IT WAS WOLVIE, LUKE, AND SPIDEY FIGHTING THE INFECTED ALL ON SCREEN AT THE SAME TIME, NEW AVENGERS ASSEMBLE, PURE AWESOMENESS LOL!!!up:

 

[0neDisturbedSOB]

So do the people that have played this game agree that it's a lot better than IGN's review made it out to be?

 

[Matt Murdock]

Yep.

 

[UltimateComix]

I played it for about 3 hours thus far.

I'll echo this once more; the IGN review was totally off. No it's not perfect, yes there are a few missed opportunities, but I'm having loads of fun with it.

The combat is awesome. Sure you can button mash, but where's the fun in that? It's a fairly deep system if you let it be, and the more abilities you upgrade the more moves you can pull off. I also find it interesting that IGN loved Fable II's combat system, which is literally three buttons (one button for close attack, one button for ranged attack, and one button for magic). WoS has a lot more complexity to the fighting system and it's awesome.

Graphics are meh. I love it when a game has great graphics, but when it doesn't it doesn't bother me that much. Sure it's the prettiest Spider-Man game to date (not counting Ultimate Spider-Man) but compared to other games currently on the market the graphics are nothing special. Character design for the random civilians and thugs is uninspired at best.

The music, one of my least favorite aspects of both Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3 is at least tolerable this time around. It's not memorable or awesome, but it's not painfully bad either. Other sound effects are spot on. Also, the animation is the game is pretty superb.

The game is incredibly easy. Your health regenerates, you can dive off the tallest building without taking any damage, and when you do die you will rarely have to play through more than one or two minutes of what you already did before you died. I personally don't mind any of this, but some of you might.

The story is pretty weak but I'm still enjoying it a lot. It's hard to believe people who actually worked on the comics made it... it's something that a 13 year old writing a fan fic could probably come up with, but oh well. The morality system is pretty flaky, but that's where the replay value will come from for me. I'm doing only Red choices this time, and next playthrough I will only do Black choices.

And yes, the game is good enough (at least for me) to play through a second time. The boss battles are pretty long (as in, much longer than they need to be) but are still awesome. I didn't like swinging around the city at first (I'm bitter that the SM2 swing controls have never resurfaced) but now I'm loving it. Unfortunately the variety to the random city missions is atrocious... it consists of swinging around until you either find
A) Bad guys to beat up
or
B) A civilian to take to the hospital

In my three hours of playtime, I've only taken TWO civilians to the hospital, and everything else is just fighting... over and over and over again. The only other thing to really do in the city is collect Spider tokens (of which there are 2000) but those don't really reward you with anything all that awesome either. After a certain amount you get more health and a faster swing speed... But so far as I know, that's it. That's the biggest missed opportunity in my opinion. No unlockable suits, comic book covers, etc. That would have added so much to the game for so little effort. At least there are achievements to go for in the 360 version.

Overall I'm really enjoying it. I'm enjoying playing through the story more than I did with SM2 but less than I did with USM. I'm enjoying free roaming less than SM2 and more than USM. So this game is sort of in the middle of those two as far as balance and what it gets right. And every aspect of it is better than Spidey 3.

Here's to hoping there's some bonus DLC later on.

Bottom line: if you originally thought you would like this game, it's almost assured that you will. Lots of untapped potential, but also lots of stuff that they get right. If you are a Spider-Man fan I'm sure you won't regret the purchase. The fun factor outweighs the flaws for the most part, and even though they could have very easily extended the life of the game beyond the story its still going to be fun to replay and see all the endings (of which there are 4)

Hope this helps

 

[Matt Murdock]

A few goals I'm having issues with after the city "changes" (you'll know what I mean when you get there):

Spoiler

• Separate symbiotes from their hosts.
• Get Symbiote samples.

Having trouble figuring those ones out.

 

[UltimateComix]

A few more hours in now. Unfortunately the repetitiveness is starting to become painfully noticable. I'm totally bored of just swinging around the city... I've already collected over 350 of the Spider tokens and fought more random thugs than I care to count. And since there's not much else to do when roaming the city, I guess I'll probably just be charging through the rest of the story now.

Buyers remorse slowly starting to creep in...

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

i'm holding off for a price cut, the cheapest the price ranges form £40 to £50, that $60 to $80

bugger that unless i can find it around the £30 mark i'll wait

 

[Havok83]

Is Spidey the only playable character?

 

[0neDisturbedSOB]

From what I've seen yes. One thing I do like about the storyline is the ability to dictate the outcome depending on what suit you use the most. If you do heroic things like save civilians, etc you are awarded "red points" however if you're tossing cars around and causing a lot of destruction in the black suit you're awarded "black points." Your HUD will also change from red to black to show you which path you're currently on. Depending on if your HUD is red or black, characters will react different to you. When in the black suit, villains will come and assist you (once you've beaten them), and on the flip side the heroes will come and assist you while in the red suit.

I like the ability to choose, because depending on who you are you could follow the red or black path the entire game, or if you're like me, you'll mix it up.

Apparently there are multiple endings to the game too depending on what path you've been on the most during game play.