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Okay stick with the first Spider man.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: May 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Okay first let me say that this game is wayyyyyyyy to long too many petty theif missions and the whole Lizard thing and the dewolfe it's stupid. Not to mention that every single flipping mission is impossible to do you have to run around chase everything you see and catch people and defend stupid innocent by standers and stupid stuff. The boss battles are as dumb as the missions why in the world would they make a boss battle where you have to fight more cronies and get your but whopped. If I wanted to get my but kicked I would play a fighting game. I thought Spider-Man was supposed to be strong and fast and stuff and the whole spider sense is the dumbest thing ever,Oh and the whole button thing is retarded it's like they seen God of War and thought hey I have an idea let's do that as well. It works for God of War not for Spider-Man. If you think your getting money's worth from this game then God speed cause you will stop playing after a while and you have to trade it in. Invest in the first one it's the best game so far Activison needs to get their act together.

Major sad letdown

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 18
Date: May 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Where to start? The camera is awful its jerky and all over the place. The Textures are blocky on the characters except Spidey he looks great. The combat is button mashing frustration, or just plain boring, this game is a rushed , jumbled huge mess. Completely disappointing.
The aminmations are missing frames, the characters look like retarded people on drugs. Sure the Web swinging is well done but they had that down in the last game. The only reason it even gets two stars is some of the context added stuff(ala God Of War) where press certain buttons to complete a section of battle or a train ride.
It looks a little better than 2 but thats because its on next gen systems. Activision pushs out another me to license game thats not fun and very frustrating in parts. The building textures are blurry, this game was rushed to meet the movie deadline, if they fixed the cam, made the combat fun and upped the textures on all the other characters and buildings this game could have been ok, it stinks as is and I am returning my copy. Don't bother.

Worst spiderman game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The only things i liked was the free roam, but the missions are sometimes fun but theres a lot of puzzle like things in missions which are really annoying. Some of the missions are difficult and the thing i really don't like is theres no cheats to help get through tough spots

Dissapointment.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: May 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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

A Twisted Web

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: May 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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

NOT A FULL REVIEW

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: May 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

WOW Spidey. U sure have taken a turn for the worst. I followed the development of this game. All i heard were empty promises. Supposedly this game was to be so much different from spiderman 2, built totally from the ground up. New Awesome combat system. Larger more robust city. Deeper side quests. PFFF. THis game is SPIDERMAN 2 with a worse camera and a horrid combat system.
WOW, Bosses havent been this cheap since MAXIMUM CARNAGE. And I'm only 45 min into the game. OK, so I'm supposed to stop a gang called Apocalypse from blowing up an electric grid. I get the bomb toss it into the ocean and guess what i have to fight a boss but he isnt alone. he has 5 other guys with him. they go down like you would expect and i still have all of my health. Pretty good odds of me taking this guy out right? WRONG. Not only is his health bar twice the size of mine. I have to make use of this horrid new reversal system thats been thrown into this game. Basically as ur fighting an enemy a yellow fist appears above his head. Which is supposed to prompt you to hold down the left bumper to slow time down. When time slows you are supposed to tap X when it appears on the screen. Easy enough right. Wrong again. Since X is the main attack button. I am halfway through a combo when the yellow symbol appears over the enemy. So when the X is supposed to appear im not able to press it because im in the middle of my combo. So i am forced to cheap my way into beating this guy and his goons by sitting ontop of a roof and pulling them up with my web one by one. Now does this sound like a fun and innovative new combat system?
THE missions are set up so bad its laughable. Ok I start the lizard mission. Rumors of the lizard in some park in the city are going around. THe boss wants pictures. SO instead of going to the park. Spiderman decides to go right outside of the office and take a pic of a guy in a lizard suit. No where near the Park in question. So i go back to the boss with the pic and he tells me hes no fool and sends me on my way to the PARK. Useless time wasting mission right? Ok so i get to the park and i am supposed to find a lizard. Thats all the mission objectives say. SO i click the right stick to bring up my Spidey sense and Voila the lizard is in an alley and i can even see his footprints thanks to the power of spidey sense. SO i go in balls to the wall ready to lay the smack down on this chump only to hear Petey say " OH no i got too close." Dun Dun DUNNNNNNN. "Mission failed" pops up on the screen as the lizard jumps into the sewer. WHAT?! are u kidding me. if u wanted me to sneak up on the guy please let me know in advanced. THis game is poorly poorly poorly put together.
OH boy dont get me started on the CAMERA. Just let me say there isn't a Camera Center button so u can snap the camera back behind Spiderman to see whats in front of u. ANd since im not a huge graphics fan i wont even ding it for having the worst cut scenes ive ever seen on a HDTV. U know when a lil child shows u a pic of something they drew. THey tell u what it is and in ur mind u know thats not what that object looks like but since it's a child u smile and say very good. Well Activision isnt a toddler and they should be ashamed of the cutscenes in this game.
Maybe I'm still bitter about the disappointing movie SPiderman 3. So maybe im being too harsh on the game. Maybe i am. but please for the love of GOD rent this game before buying it. In my opinion this game is worst than Spiderman 2.

not the best Spidey game, but playable

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I could tell the minute that I started playing this game that it was not going to match up to the quality of the previous Spiderman movie tie in games. I feel that this game was rushed to meet the movie deadline. So many things could have been done to improve the game play. For intance, the camera angle was usually always bad, making it difficult to fight. The graphics would fade in and out along with the texture.

The fighting style of the game could have also been improved. I felt that this game didnt have any strategy to it, there were a few buttons to fight with, and when you were surrounded by a group of people you resorted to mashing every single one of them. Dont get me wrong, there were button combinations, but I never seeemed to have time to complete them.

Another thing that could have been improved was the random bugs in the game, there were a few missions I couldnt complete. I would just run over an object that I was supposed to pick up, and I would watch Spiderman run through them like they were not even there. I would also get involved in random crime sprees, and I wouldnt be able to avert the crime because one or more of the criminals would be stuck underground or inside a wall.

There are a few other things that could have been improved before the game hit the stores, but I feel that is enough ragging on the game. After all, it is Spiderman. It is time for the parts of the game that stood out. I enjoyed the swinging mechanism, watching the webline shoot out, and then tighten as Spiderman weight was applied to the line. I also thought that the blur created when Spiderman swung fast was also a nice touch.

I thought that the spider-sense was extremely helpful, allowing you to see enemies and allies or objectives at the touch of a button. I enjoyed almost all of the missions in the game, although they could have been a little longer. I wish that we had gotten to play as Venom, and I wish the level with New Goblin had been longer, allowing us to tinker around with his skills a little bit more.

I decided to give this game a medium rating, this game is fun for a bit, but then it seems to die down, or at least it did for me, with every little glitch that I experienced, I felt the game lost a little bit of its value. I have to say, that if you want a great Spiderman game, then this one is not for you. I feel that the Spiderman 2 movie tie in game was more fun, and more well done than this one. However, if you want to expoerience the swinging mechanism in the game, as well as some of the interesting missions, then you just might like it.

Good if you haven't played Spidey 2.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

First off, if you have played the game Spiderman 2, then you should just really look at this as an expansion pack. It doesn't really do anything that Spiderman 2 didn't. Your in a very similiar enviornment as you were in the second, but in it's time Spiderman 2 was much better. I beat Spiderman 2 twice I believe. I'm a third of the way through the game and am not sure whether or not I will ever finish it. I had started back on it not long ago, but I got frustrated and put back on the shelf. If you played Spiderman 2 and moderately enjoyed it, then this isn't for you. If like me you loved Spidey 2 then I would check this out.

Overall 5.5-6.0

My Spidey Sense is Tingling --- it's saying this is a great game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 21
Date: May 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Without a doubt, this game is fun simply because it's Spider-Man. Who doesn't love Spider-Man, despite it's somewhat over-hyped presence in pop culture? It's an enigmatic comic book figure, and has quadrupled in popularity since the debut of the action packed Spider-Man films.

Unfortunately, the game has a few flaws that can probably be attributed to the fact that they were trying to rush it's release in order to time it perfectly with the release of the Spider-Man 3 movie in theatres.

The web slinging controls are kind of complicated, and take a lot of getting used to. There are also bugs everywhere, which become very noticable at times when Spider-Man is attempting to climb a building or wall. Some of the voice acting becomes annoying pretty quickly. You'd think that with the budget this game must have had, it could have afforded to record a few different variations of the character's dialogue. If I have to hear Mary-Jane screech "Let's go higher!", or "I want to swing low" one more time, I'll go out of my mind.

Occasionally the camera becomes a worse enemy than the actual bad guys you're fighting. This is one of the bugs in the game, because sometimes the camera will just go crazy and do whatever it wants, making it very difficult to combat whatever villain you're engaged in at the moment.

Now on a more positive note, once you get used to the controls (which is always an initial challenge when beginning a new game, no matter how accomplished a gamer you are) the fighting sequences and combinations are actually pretty spectacular, and they make you feel like you really are Spider-Man, which is one of the best compliments a game like this could receive.

The graphics are phenomenal, which is expected, but it's truly a beautiful game. It has plenty of missions and challenges to choose from, and all in all has a very sandbox asthetic to it. You can roam around, choose your missions, fight the bad guys, and be wowed by the graphics and fighting combinations in the process. Despite some of it's flaws, this is a very engaging and entertaining game, and fans of Spider-Man (in addition to gamers everywhere) will not be disappointed.

Listen to your spidey sense, and give it a try. You'll have fun web-slinging your way around this city.

I put the GRRRRR in Swingerrrrr

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: May 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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.

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