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UGO: Spider-Man Web of Shadows Review

October 22, 2008 in Reviews comments 8

This is one of the games that has been sucking up all of my time in a very busy schedule... You may find it hard to believe but in between Fable 2, Fallout 3, and Dead Space... I am actually making time for Web of Shadows.

Let us be honest, we are friends here. Spider-Man 3 and Friend or Foe were steaming piles of manure INMO... but Web of Shadows feels like an Apology from Shaba (and through extention Treyarch) for the last game. Controls are tighter, the game is more dynamic, and watching the city descend into chaos is just... glorious!

Remember Spider-Man 3 and Spider-Man: Friend or Foe? No you don’t. They were fun-hating, derivative experiences which did a disservice to the Queens-born webslinger. Praise Activision then for handing the Spidey license over to Shaba Games, whose just-released Spider-Man: Web of Shadows (360/PS3 versions reviewed here) makes it fun to swing through an open urban playground again. While there are echoes of the previous Treyarch-developed offerings in Web of Shadows, Spidey’s latest adventure is bolstered by a redesigned ability tree, a branching “good or evil” storyline and – best of all – all-new combat mechanics which perfectly capture the experience of fighting like a spider a can.
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    chautemoc Oct 22, 08
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    Remember Spider-Man 3 and Spider-Man: Friend or Foe? No you don’t. They were fun-hating, derivative experiences which did a disservice to the Queens-born webslinger.
    Hehe.

    Great review!
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    young money Oct 22, 08
    koei should hand over the gundamn dynasty warriors to these guys..since they have failed numerous times to make a halfway a decent game..
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    iLLmatic Oct 22, 08
    I decided on Midnight Club instead of this, pretty much because of Spidey's track record But I still want to pick it up before the year is over. Too many games
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    AznLiquid Oct 22, 08
    Great review, it's been years since I even played a Spider-man game.
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    Final Blade Oct 22, 08
    Is it just me or does this site block off some of the review? I mean it has happened before. So I couldn't really get a full indepth read on it but saw the score. Personally I don't agree with the games they called trash, but this game to me feels like an A then a B. But thats my opinion.
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      Daigoji_Gai Oct 23, 08
      Final Blade I agree with you.

      I've been playing it, and just got to the portion where SHIELD takes military control over the city and blows all the bridges. Piles of smoke rise from buildings in the distance, the overcast is dark, and symbiote webs begin appearing all over the place.

      Kingpin's goons are still causing trouble, Electro has been taken over by the symbiotes, and I find myself stuck in the middle of this mess now trying to rescue civilians.

      Honestly Final Blade, I would have given this game an A if I was writing the review, then again, there is an ongoing joke here about me liking games people hate (like Phantom Dust, like my fanboy devotion to Metal Gear Solid and defense of MGS2)... so when I say "I think it deserves an A" everyone usually goes "ok, make it a B- then"
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        Final Blade Oct 24, 08
        lol Yeah. Well its their opinions in the end. I just don't believe it deserves that low of a score.
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    HisServant77 Oct 24, 08
    Yup, I personally love this game. I'd also have to give it an A instead of a B

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