SpiderMan 3: Terrible Reviews
The reviews can be accurately summed up by this one sentence from IGN:
However, the biggest problem in Spider-Man 3 is the simple fact that the missions aren’t fun.
Wow, that is disappointing. This game quickly went from a must-buy to a game I probably won’t even bother to rent.
The fact that the prequel on the PS2 got such fantastic reviews only makes this the more disappointing. This just goes to show, that even with a large dev budget, just how tricky it is to make the game actually fun.
The downside is this was supposed to be one of the big games of May. At least we still get Calling All Cars this month. And next month, we get The Darkness (I can’t wait: is anyone else a huge fan of the comic or the writer, Garth Ennis?).
I was actually close to pre-ordering this game and I’m so glad that I didn’t. This reminds me of when I pre-ordered Driv3r: all the previews, and making-of clips, and developer interviews made the game look so great. I was so excited for that game. But the game itself turned out to be bad. Really bad. It sold well, but I’m sure that everyone who bought it was very disappointed.
Regardless, did anyone get this game? Is anyone else as disappointed as I am?
May 5th, 2007 at 8:49 am
I was gonna get it, now ill just rent it.
Darkness does look good, did you see the exclusive X-play trailer, it was on yesterday after aots. Also Ninja Gaiden Sigma.
For now Oblivion it is.
May 5th, 2007 at 10:31 am
I won’t even rent it. 8 bucks is too much to spend on a crappy game. It sucks because, like you said, this was going to be the game for May. Now I have to wait for Lair and Heavenly Sword this summer. Jeez.
May 5th, 2007 at 10:44 am
Reviewers are crap. This game is 10X better than Spider-Man 2 was. I am so glad I pre-ordered the collectors efition, it was sold at my store of Gamestop.
This game is simply amazing!
May 5th, 2007 at 11:49 am
IGN : 6/10
GameSpot : 6.6/10
Eurogamer : 6.0/10
GameSpy : 3/5
Guess this raps it up.
Allthough an average 6 isn’t bad considering this is a milk-the-film-as-good-as-we-can-game
Hope the film is better
May 5th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
If you could choose which missions you want to do instead of having to do all of them it’d gotten better reviews. That way you could skip the horrible missions and concentrate on the story related ones. You’re forced to do all the missions on the map before new ones start popping up. A terrible design flaw.
The game comes down to a few basic weaknesses that could easily have been fixed. The enemies block far too much, and are given far too much health. You find yourself hopelessly button mashing to beat the tougher bosses.
Spider-Man 2 was a great game, this is an average game. I recommend you rent or wait for this game to hit the bargain bin.
May 6th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
I rented the game for two dollars. I wanted to like the game but it kept screaming last gen graphics. The clipping and frame rate was terrible.
May 6th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
That game rocks, i tried it out on 360 and it’s so fun (QTE/numerous hit combos) plus the fact that swinging over manhattan is source of endless pleasure…. only the lenght of the game is too short
May 7th, 2007 at 8:01 am
the film is very good. I have testet the game on a game store. The game is not funny to play