Hello everybody! This is my first post back, and I decided to do a review on The Amazing Spider-Man 2
videogame, as you can see in the title. Note: I will not give away the entire story-line, videogames will be the same gist as movies.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The Video-Game
Alright, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 starts out where The Amazing Spider-Man movie re-told the tale of Uncle Ben's death. Playing as Peter Parker, you are walking out of the corner store where you've just gotten your bottle of milk.
You hear a gunshot, and you run over to Uncle Ben, who is already dead.
The game then fast-forwards to two years later, where the videogame takes place. Returning to his original and classic uniform, Spider-Man stands on top of one of the eagles where, for hardcore Spider-Man videogame players, we see that this is the same eagle Spider-Man stood upon in the first
Spider-Man game, featuring Tobey McGuire. Just a fun fact.
Anyway, Spider-Man overlooks the city, and says, mostly to himself, "Uncle Ben's killer is still out there. I have to find him. I'll never stop hunting Uncle Ben's killer." Or something along those lines. You ask me, kinda cheesy.
Okay, if you remember in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 movie, Spider-Man got himself involved in the Russian mob's business, where they were terrorizing Manhattan. This is barely mentioned in the film itself, when Peter and Gwen are seen together for the first time in the film at their High School Graduation Ceremony.
Now, the videogame expands upon that, and barely follows, let alone stays along the same lines, as the movie. So you can expect a completely different story line that is so loosely connected to the movie, that Gwen is not mentioned or even thought of once in the entire game!
Personally, this was a disappointment. Not saying that I would have wanted to witness
Gwen's death a second time, but saying that I think Gwen should have been featured in the game, since the movie really revolves around her death.
Anyways, at this point in the game, you are hunting Uncle Ben's killer, and instead you get caught up in a Russian mob skirmish. You beat the crap out of all of them, except for one, in order to interrogate him.
You find out some information that will help you with finding the killer, and aid you in your intervention of the Russian mob's constant fighting. Okay, all you really need to know is that yes, you do indeed intervene with the Russian gangs, and you meet Kraven along the way.
Kraven teaches Spider-Man how to become a true hunter, and attempts to bring out the killing side to him. This fails however, and Spider-Man discovers that the true reason Kraven taught Spider-Man everything he knew, is that Kraven wanted a worthy opponent to fight him.
Along with Kraven, you must fight Electro, and the story line leading to Electro's boss fight is completely off, since you fight Kingpin before Electro. And then after Electro, you fight Carnage, then after Carnage, you fight the Green Goblin/Hobgoblin.
With Kingpin, he becomes involved when he makes a contract with Harry and Oscorp Industries to help protect Manhattan from the Russian mob threat. This poses a new threat alongside the villians already mentioned. The Kingpin's company is called Trask, and the Task Force is assigned into protecting Manhattan from vigilantes and thugs. Which, includes Spidey.
Then you also have the opportunity to play as Peter in a few other scenarios, but overall, you are suited up as Spidey for the majority of the game.
Details (small ones, like gaming mechanics):
Web Swinging Rating: 9.5 out of 10- interesting, fun, and a real joy to be able to use both triggers to enable a sense of actually swinging between skyscrapers.
Web shooter mechanics (i.e. web shooting, web grappling, special moves, silent takedowns, web yoyo, etc.): 7.75 out of 10- very cool, fun, but repetitive. at first, interesting to experience the different types of takedowns and the limited variety, but overall, a good usage. in order to get an even better experience that could bump that rating up to an 8, possibly an 8.25... UPGRADES! upgrade as much as you can. it'll pay off, i promise you that
Overall Rating: 7.75 out of 10- now, i try to be as honest as i can in all of my reviewing, and this is my honest opinion: this is definitely
not the best Spider-Man game made ever. but, it
is one to take a look into. i didn't even mention the hero or menace system, but that was pretty neat. so yes, i am being as generous, but as honest, as i can possibly be with this videogame. i honestly thought it was going to turn out better, but hey, it's Spider-Man, right? who doesn't love a Spider-Man game?
