Unfortunately, the sprawling levels can be a little too intricate and web-like for their own good at times, occasionally suffering for a lack of navigation-aiding landmarks. Again, all of these actions are fluid in motion and totally effortless to pull off. Cavernous rooms beg you to swing and soar to the top to see what's there, which may be a claustrophobic vent to crawl through or simply a surface to cling upside-down from. This Spidey is a bespoke blur of speed and agility, capable of jumping twenty feet with the press of a button and seamlessly moving from web slinging to wall-walking without such annoyances as a power bar or a complicated control scheme.Īlso designed with the character firmly in mind is the world you move about in. This is no generic action character with a blue and red skin laid over him. Developer Amaze Entertainment has clearly put a lot of thought into what makes Marvel's number one son so unique. The DS alone has seen the good ( Spider-Man 3) the bad ( Battle for New York) and the average ( Friend or Foe) since this website came into being.Īll of which brings us to Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, which absolutely nails what it should feel like to be Spider-Man and builds a solid 2D action-adventure experience around him. But strangely, Spidey's digital outings have been a bit of a mixed bag. Always ready with cheeky one-liners, enough cool powers to make you want to be him, yet still very much a mortal who was susceptible to pain and simple human error.įunnily enough, it's for these very reasons that the web-slinger is arguably the superhero most suited to the video-game treatment. All totally incomprehensible to my juvenile mind.īut Spidey had the balance just right. What's more, he never once used his X-Ray vision to peek at ladies' undies. Sure he could fly and lift jumbo jets, but you just couldn't relate to that level of power. Superman was at the other end of the spectrum. But let's face it - he was just an ordinary guy. Batman, well, he looked the coolest, was absolutely loaded and had lots of brilliant toys to play with. As a kid there was something about Spider-Man that grabbed my imagination well beyond the other 'big three' super-heroes.
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