It was initially rumored to be called Spider-Man: Red vs. Black, but it's been officially announced now as Spider-Man: Web of Shadows.
It seems New York City (possibly the world) is under attack by some as-yet-unnamed alien/force that is conveniently black, goopy, and, well, related to Spider-Man somehow. Symbiote, anyone?
The game will be free-roaming, with an increased focus on vertical fighting. Sounds badass. Not to mention the game seems to be taking on a grittier atmosphere, with NYC under martial law.
Spider-Man will be fighting with or against a number of characters from the Marvel Universe--you'll be able to choose how you want to play: everyone's favorite friendly neighborhood superhero or a darker anti-hero.
Well, it has the potential to be an awesome game. Hopefully it's better than the last two piles of sh*t that Spider-Man's been a part of (Friend or Foe, I'm looking at you).
as long as you are able to make choices which effect the environment and story, and the fighting system is actually playable and there are plenty of sub mission crimes to foil while the actual missions are fun and not tedious to play, this game may have a shot to be half as impressive as spiderman 2. I doubt any of this will be the case though. Im expecting a bigger, shinier spiderman 3 video game.
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It's also a scathing indictment of the direction the comics have gone recently...basically back to 1960's "Holy Tight Situation Spider-Man! How will you EVER weasle your way out of this one? Hahaha!" The video games are at least in tune with modern sensibilities.
The fact that they keep using Symbiotes is another factor that is starting to get old, I like Venom, I like Scream, Agony and Lasher, I don't care about any other Symbiotes apart from them, and for some reason the symbiotes in the games are always weak and can be easily controlled by another villain, even Mysterio has had a crack at using Symbiotes, just like Doc Ock, still i guess they beat regular muggers.
Anyway i will be interested to see the line of villains (comic villains) that appear in the game and how they will be implemented within this rather desolate Spider-Man world, why do i have the suspicion that time travel will be involved at some point.
Eh, despite realizing they're not flawless games, the movie-into-video game series has been pretty sweet if you're a Spidey fan. The swinging, city environments, and movement/controls for Pete himself have been excellent. Basically, if they keep most of that, it'll do fine.
Where they need to improve is writing, story, variance in mission types, objectives, and bad guys, making the game longer and possibly more difficult, etc.
Apr 18th, 2008 04:07 PM
