The Amazing Spider-Man

The Game movie tie in

Teaser

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/vga-2011-the-amazing-spider-man/724644

looks like its back to being an open world game like the one they did for Spider-Man 2.

lol, looks EXACTLY like SM2 and/or 3, right down to the level of detail on the buildings. Which, ok, same console generation, but hopefully they step up their textures at least.

Whatever. It's a SM game. I'm in. Without free roam, it's not really a SM game, so the latest installments might have been acceptable but didn't really do anything to entice me. This one will.

Still gotta go back and play WoS, but I'm so behind on gaming right now, that's still like 6 months off.

Hopefully like Spidey 2, not 3. Keeping my eyes peeled for this one... and the movie I guess.

At least Sega involved with this game.

You mean the same people who made the shitastic Iron man and Thor games?

Originally posted by Digi
lol, looks EXACTLY like SM2 and/or 3, right down to the level of detail on the buildings. Which, ok, same console generation, but hopefully they step up their textures at least.

Whatever. It's a SM game. I'm in. Without free roam, it's not really a SM game, so the latest installments might have been acceptable but didn't really do anything to entice me. This one will.

Still gotta go back and play WoS, but I'm so behind on gaming right now, that's still like 6 months off.

But also a game doesn't need free roam to be a spidey game imo. Would it make it better? OF course.

But making a good spider-man narrative with a sense of urgency that would make the lack of free roam make sense would be fine by me if they got his character right and made the action feel like him.

Just my view on it

Originally posted by Phanteros
You mean the same people who made the shitastic Iron man and Thor games?

Sorry i forgot to put "Is'nt" involved.... damn 15 min edit rule...

Originally posted by jalek moye
personally web of shadows was my favorite one.

But also a game doesn't [b]need free roam to be a spidey game imo. Would it make it better? OF course.

But making a good spider-man narrative with a sense of urgency that would make the lack of free roam make sense would be fine by me if they got his character right and made the action feel like him.

Just my view on it [/B]

Nah. A good game can exist without it, yes. But it probably won't, because the story and gameplay elements are never going to be SO awesome that it makes up for it. It's somewhat a burden of the license.

More superhero games should be free roam though. Flawed and sloppy as it was, Hulk: Ultimate Destruction was the same way and was a riot. They need Super Smash Bros. Marvel Edition with open cityscapes as the battlefields. That would really be one of the best things ever.

The superhero MMOs try at this, but there's too many restrictions of the genre to be as fluid as the games I mentioned.

Originally posted by Digi
Nah. A good game can exist without it, yes. But it probably won't, because the story and gameplay elements are never going to be SO awesome that it makes up for it. It's somewhat a burden of the license.

More superhero games should be free roam though. Flawed and sloppy as it was, Hulk: Ultimate Destruction was the same way and was a riot. They need Super Smash Bros. Marvel Edition with open cityscapes as the battlefields. That would really be one of the best things ever.

The superhero MMOs try at this, but there's too many restrictions of the genre to be as fluid as the games I mentioned.

that would be pretty cool

Originally posted by jalek moye
that would be pretty cool

It's basically been my dream game since that Hulk game, when I realized the implications of having multiple heroes in such an environment.

I have more ideas concerning it, since it's fun to imagine, but it's largely academic since I'm in no way in a game design field.

Looks fun, and I like the graphics.

Trailer

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/vga-2011-exclusive-debut/724683

That was pretty awesome looking. Again, the swing mechanics will have to feel right. That's really the one thing we won't know until we play.

The plot is so cliche it hurts.

I know that it's a comic book game and therefore we're to expect a shitty story. But it would be really awesome if just for once we could get a story that wasn't totally halfassed.

I know Kazenji's going to ask me how the plot is cliche, he can't help himself, but all the same I'm really tired of the "zomg robots are turning on us!" plot. Like, no one in the spiderman universe is smart enough to realize that allowing a corporation to build a giant army of super robots right in the middle of town is potentially a horrible idea?

Has that plot got anything to do with the movie?

I'm not sure. The movie's main villain is supposedly going to be the Lizard, so I'm not sure how an army of evil OsCorp robots fits into that.

Well, I can't disagree with your assessment Blax, but it could be said that the SM games aren't meant to be played for their story. I've enjoyed a lot of them in the series, but can't really remember any story that stands out. Either it was cliche as hell, or just a loose plot that found ways to shoehorn a dozen different villains into it. Could it be more? Sure. But does the game hinge on that? No. The robot fight sequence was larger in scope than I remember seeing in any previous game, so there's some potential for it to kick ass in new ways.

i though Web of Shadows had a pretty good story *shrug* or at least closer to how a story could play out with a decent spidey writer.

Especially since it managed to involve with various other new york based heroes like an actual event would.

WoS was the only one I didn't play. The stories were all forgettable in the others (1, 2, and 3 which loosely followed the movies, and "Ultimate"😉. All were good though, 2 being the pinnacle.

Originally posted by Digi
. Flawed and sloppy as it was, Hulk: Ultimate Destruction was the same way and was a riot. .

Shut.The.****.up.