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Dissapointment.May 08, 2007
By W. Newberry
"agent_47"
This game is more annoying than it is fun. Not because its hard , but because the camera is constantly bouncing off walls and violently shaking and the combat is definately not anything new or inventive. I think much older games like Jade Empire combat blows away Spidey-3. If you press the B button spidey can web an enemy also you can climb walls with the B button. Well guess what I pressed the B button to web an enemy while indoors and instead of spidey throwing a web at the enemy he wall walked on the side of a piano in the room?? Im like ah..no..I dont wanna wall walk this piano right now.Its just bad programming in so many ways.There is ZERO interaction with people and cars in this game. Spiderman might as well be a ghost as every single person in this game pays you absolutly no attention at all, that is of course unless your on a mission. Even when you land on the street , the car and driver dont even swerve or notice you. There's zero interaction. The entire city feels dead , almost depressing in a way. Games like Godfather,GTA,Crackdown all had interaction with nearly every person you walk by or bump into. But not Spiderman there is zero, zip,nada. I just got bored swinging around in a lifeless city. The only highlight in this game is Times Square at night, it looks pretty nice graphic wise. All in all S-3 doesnt have a polished next gen feel to it. I really wanted to like this game but I just cant get past some of the major flaws like the camera and the combat. But if you have children I think this game would be perfect for adolescent to young teens crowd. Worthy of Rent Only for me. PEACE
10 of 13 found the following review helpful:
The Difinitive Spiderman Experience!Apr 30, 2008
By Raul Duke
"Gonzo HST"
I've played every 3D spiderman game since PS2 and this outshines all of them in every aspect. the slow motion ability alone puts this one ahead of the others, but there's so much more that contributes to its greatness.
you never really know what's going to happen next. from the random crimes ranging from retrieving a stolen purse, to tracking down and stopping an armored car thats been jacked. the missions are just as various, full of classic Spiderman characters. you can also do photography missions for the Daily Bugel.
outside of the movie's storyline are 9 different series of missions, and side races and crime activities you can start any time you're not in a mission. its this variety and randomness that boost the entertainment department through the roof for fans of superhero games.
the graphics, while not the best on the system, are impressive given the size of the world around you (vertically and horizontally) and the fact that there's no load times between areas. the city is huge. spiderman himself looks fantastic, but normal human character models lack detail and are a little blocky in some cases.
the controls/gameplay at their core are similar to Spiderman 2, but enhanced to near perfection. its the first game in a long time that actually had me wanting to learn and memorize all the combos and abilities. the slow motion effect was a genius addition. spidermans speed is his greatest attribute in combat, and for the first time in a game, it gets some attention. boss battles(although still frustrating at times) are much more manageable thanks to your extreme speed.
never before has a game made you feel so much like the hero you emulate. an amazing achievement in its subgenre.
**to anyone interested in the New Goblin download pack, be warned you cant get off the board, and his attacks are pretty limited. he has no missions outside of races. you can solve random crimes though. the exploration options (and flight speed) added through him are worth it though. you can fly so high above the city. amazing is the only word for the view from up there.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Best in the series, and on the other systemsApr 11, 2008
By Susan C. Gill
"Four4Jesus"
Honestly, when the game first came out I had to get it for my wii. I hated it. It wasn't anything like I had heard it was going to be. So I did the next best thing. I got it for the PC. It was great at first, although REALLY slow because I was below the requirements. When I got some extra ram to boost up the PC, that helped it alot. The catche: my cpu speed wasn't up to par so it was STILL a little slower than anyone would like. I know its beside the point but, if you're thinking about getting it for the pc, unless your computer is like SUPERMAN'S it won't exactly run as great as you'd think.
Anyway, Christmas came and I finally got an Xbox 360 and since I heard you could play as new goblin on the 360, I went out and got it. I must say I was EXTREMELY satisfied with the results.
Getting it for the 360 was the best thing ever. It actually ran fast and it wasn't so danged short like the wii's. The "cinteractives" were abundant and the combat was alot deeper than the wii's (although the swinging not nearly as interactive). Ok now for good and bad.
Good: The 360 and PS3's version of Spider-man 3 is clearly the best out of them all. The graphics are AMAZING at times. I'll actually just look at the detail in spidey when he's inside a building (thats when he looks his best)and practically, well marvel, at all the lighting effects.
Combat is good, but differs in opinion (I'll explain later). The new way of dodging attacks in the game is a lot different than what it was in SM2. You actually use the slow down button to dodge, which really makes it easier sometimes when your in certain situations. The one button to attack with feature of spidey 2 GONE. Now you get a power attack and a quick attack to give your moves a little more variety. The acrobatics that the normal spidey does are just too cool. Also, I just thought I'd add I didn't really experience any difficulties with the camera. It all seemed to be fine with mine. I also found that there's an option to turn off the camera shakyness if you do have the problem, so its good with that.
Ok, web swinging may not be as good on the 360 over the wii's controllers, but its STILL the fun webswinging that we all know and love. Overall its pretty solid on the controls giving you that feeling of speed we all like.
The black suit is probably the real reason to get the game. He is SWEET. He can do the craziest combo's when he's fired up in rage mode, and his super attacks are almost too powerful. He also looks cooler than the regular suit. I don't know why but he just does.
IF you have xbox live, then the New Goblin is a cheap thing to buy that is totally worth it. Although the controls are funky, you can basically fly like a bird on his sky stick, kickin some butt everywhere you go. Plus it doesn't take 4 seconds to download him, and when you do you it's exactly like the PS3's special addition where you have to fight and beat New goblin on the story. So really its just like gettin the PS3's stuff, which I am SO glad they didn't make it PS3 exclusive.
Bad: Even though the graphics are really good on some area's, when you're out in the streets of new york, unless you're in time's square at night, spidey doesn't really look that great. He's got SOME detail but not enough to make me go wow like I do when he's in buildings or some other dark area. Also, EVERYONE except spidey looks absolutely HORRIBLE. Not one person looks anywhere near as good as spidey does, with only maybe a few exceptions.
Combat may be better than the wii's but it can be really iffy at certain points in the game. Really, if you wanted to, you could go through the entire game using only the basic combo's. It might take longer, but you could do it. Also, if you pressed the attack button and then press jump, spidey will vault off the guys shoulders and end up in the air. Basically this means that if you're in trouble, you can keep doing this combo until there weren't any enemies left. It feels really cheap so I never did it, but the apocolypse gang boss was SO stupid, that I actually had to do that combo and I beat him my first try doing that (idk how many times I had to do that stupid level before I figured out that was the only way to do it). I didn't have to do it again, but its really the only way to beat that level.
The web swinging isn't really that bad. If I said bad things about it I'd be nit picking it to death. Maybe the camera is shaky? I don't think so, but it's pretty solid either way. The only thing that comes to mind is that its really nothing new. It may be alot simpler than SM2's but it doesn't give that same feeling that SM2 gave when I first played it.
Ok, the black suit is the reason this game has playability this time around. I mean honestly if he were gone, what would be new?? They did a great job with him too. Too good in fact. After you beat the game, they let you play as black suit and go through the story playing as him (sorry if I spoiled it but its pretty obvious anyway). When you go through the game you realize just how good he really is. His combos are WAY stronger, faster, and brutal than the regular suit's. He is just PURE power. Rage mode gives him even more power. If you played through the entire game as the regular suit, you couldn't do it. I just wish they could have made that an option, and made the Regular suit a little more up to par to the black suit. I mean I know it's supposed to be stronger than the Original, but come on, couldn't we make it alittle more interesting?? How else could he beat Venom unless he had SOMETHING that made him better (besides brains)??
Ok, even though the New goblin is also cool, and its something else to come back to if there are newer spiderman games, he has some downsides. First off, he doesn't have his own story. All he can do is petty missions that happen, and he can NOT get off his glider for the life of him. All he can really do is races, and that gets old fairly quick. Even though its a blast to glide as high as you can go, I'd still play Superman Returns because he has some enemies to beat up that were more challenging (although thats in its own repetitive). Plus you still have to get points to get him which for some people, isn't possible (sorry guys).
Overall, I think this game had some good and bad that kinda leveled out after a while. Even though it can be frusterating at times, it really is the best out of all of them in the series. My advice, since it is down in price alot, go get it, but only if you're a fair to extreme spidey fan. Otherwise you might not like it as much.
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
I put the GRRRRR in SwingerrrrrMay 29, 2007
By David Blum
"Davie Wavie"
Ok people... Let's be honest. The rule of thumb is - Movie related games stink, big time. You know it's true, they know it's true, even the Amish know it's true.
But, here comes Spiderman, swinging in all his glory in a beautifully rendered city. Graceful moves, tight spaces to try to swing through, climbing walls like a spider, swinging from lamp posts.... and that's only the beginning. There's crime to stop. Not just mission based crimes which push forward the adventure story, but crime everywhere you swing. Throw in tons of side/goal missions (combat, bombs, races)- there's so much content you'll be playing for a while.
I'm not ashamed to admit I remember walking into a pizza hut and seeing the first pong game ever... but OMG, how far we've come where a white square represents a ball to being able to count the bricks of tenament slum while swinging past it doing a summersault at 200 mph on a spider's web.
The game is gorgeous, fast pace, fun, entertaining, and challenging and, as a comic-book fanboy for life, a hoot to play. It can be casual as well as gripping. I love it so much, I immediatly ordered 1 and 2.
5 of 7 found the following review helpful:
A Twisted WebMay 15, 2007
By S. Rhodes With the huge success of the first two Spider-Man movie tie-in games, it was pretty obvious that there was going to be a third one thrown in there for good measure. Much like a lot of movie tie-in games, however, Spider-Man 3 feels a bit incomplete in some areas, and just all around lacks in others. That's not to say there's nothing good about the game because it certainly has its perks. The problem is that there's not a whole lot here to warrant the game a buy.
As with the first two Spider-Man games before it, Spider-Man 3 doesn't really follow the movie all that well. It's loosely based on the movie. You've got the Sandman, Venom and the new Goblin to worry about, but the game also throws in other villains like the Lizard, Scorpion and Kingpin. Villains that weren't featured in the movie and here they come across as space-filling just to make the game longer. That doesn't really matter anyway as the game tries to follow the plot of the film AND work in these new villains. It makes the games storyline come off as quite a sloppy mess. The game's story is also carried by some rather likeluster and lifeless voice acting too, which is sad because they used the cast of the movie (save for Kirsten Dunst). I guess voice acting is far different from acting because a lot of the time you just don't get the sense that any of the cast really cared about the game.
The gameplay is pretty similar to Spider-Man 2. You roam around the city by webswinging and looking for things to do. No matter what anyone says, webswinging in Spider-Man 2 was fun. In Spider-Man 3 it's still fun because it doesn't come off too different from its predecessor. So you can swing and zip around New York all you want. It's actually quite fun to explore the city itself as it's given some great detail along the way. And as you explore you'll also find little random crimes that you can stop. There's really nothing rewarding from them, and some of them are just not all that thrilling, but the fact that it's there is kind of neat.
As you roam around New York you'll find icons that allow you to initiate missions and sidequests throughout the game. Most of the missions aren't anything too surprisingly difficult. Most of these missions are run-of-the-mill Super Hero business like saving people from burning buildings or stopping robbers. Things like that. The story based missions alone can keep you busy for a while, but the game itself really isn't all that long to begin with.
Some of the missions and sidequests can be grueling, though, because combat feels a little off. It's the same button mashing experience as the last couple of games, so if you've played them, you'll feel quite at home here. The problem is some of the games adversaries you come up against use some unreasonably cheap methods to taking you down, and they can drop your health fast. This forces you yourself to use some unreasonably cheap methods as well and unfortunately it makes the game less fun to fight in because of it. You can build up combat abilities, but a lot of the time you're reduced to using cheap tricks to deal with your foes that the combat abilities really just don't matter because you won't find yourself using them. Bosses especially can be unforgiving, especially because some of them ensure that before you can start dropping their health, you've got to accomplish something else first.
There are also some mini-games that take place during some missions, that usually require you to do a series of button presses or analog movements. These sequences aren't really bad, but they're not good either. Especially because a lot of the time they explain what you have to be doing WHILE you're supposed to be doing it. You'll often fail the first time just because you had to read the directions before proceeding. But when you start... you've already lost. It would've been nice if the game paused or something first. Luckily, if you do manage to fail one of these sequences you're not penalized. When you begin again you're usually right there where it took place.
The camera is probably the biggest problem of all facing this game. It's too jerky and all over the place and often shifts inappropriately. Especially during a lot of the action. You'll spend a lot of time fighting with the camera and readjusting it.
Graphically, Spider-Man 3 is almost state-of-the-art for a movie tie in. That is to say there are bugs and glitches found within the game. The overall presentation isn't bad in terms of what you see. But the technical stuff is definitely annoying sometimes. Enemies being trapped inside walls or having invisible objects in their way. It's another case of a game rushed out to meet the release date of the film. It's nice that New York looks beautiful at least and even Spider Man looks good, but a lot of the other character models don't. The games cutscenes are also drab looking as well. After giving New York so much detail, one has to wonder why they didn't give the rest of the game some detail. Again, one may assume it was because it was rushed to meet the release of the film.
Spider-Man 3 isn't a bad game, really. It just feels rushed and underdeveloped. It's the curse of movie tie-in games. I'm sure some hardcore Spider-Man fans will have some fun with this, but most other gamers probably won't stick around too long for this one.
Pros:
+New York City Looks Great!
+Webswinging is still a lot of fun
+A wide variety of missions and optional things to do
Cons:
-Combat could use some work
-New York looks great... but why doesn't the rest of the game?
-A few technical glitches
-Awful camera
-The voice work is just dull
-As with the other games, the story doesn't really follow the film all that well, and with the new stuff thrown in it just feels like a mess sometimes
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