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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

The Difinitive Spiderman Experience!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: April 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've played every 3D spiderman game since PS2 and this outshines all of them in every aspect. the slow motion ability alone puts this one ahead of the others, but there's so much more that contributes to its greatness.

you never really know what's going to happen next. from the random crimes ranging from retrieving a stolen purse, to tracking down and stopping an armored car thats been jacked. the missions are just as various, full of classic Spiderman characters. you can also do photography missions for the Daily Bugel.

outside of the movie's storyline are 9 different series of missions, and side races and crime activities you can start any time you're not in a mission. its this variety and randomness that boost the entertainment department through the roof for fans of superhero games.

the graphics, while not the best on the system, are impressive given the size of the world around you (vertically and horizontally) and the fact that there's no load times between areas. the city is huge. spiderman himself looks fantastic, but normal human character models lack detail and are a little blocky in some cases.

the controls/gameplay at their core are similar to Spiderman 2, but enhanced to near perfection. its the first game in a long time that actually had me wanting to learn and memorize all the combos and abilities. the slow motion effect was a genius addition. spidermans speed is his greatest attribute in combat, and for the first time in a game, it gets some attention. boss battles(although still frustrating at times) are much more manageable thanks to your extreme speed.

never before has a game made you feel so much like the hero you emulate. an amazing achievement in its subgenre.

**to anyone interested in the New Goblin download pack, be warned you cant get off the board, and his attacks are pretty limited. he has no missions outside of races. you can solve random crimes though. the exploration options (and flight speed) added through him are worth it though. you can fly so high above the city. amazing is the only word for the view from up there.

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.

The Best of the Three Games Easily!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: May 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Simply put, this game is awesome! There is no other word to describe this. If you enjoyed Spider-Man 2 the game, imagine it multiplied by 100. The city is bigger, but that isn't the most impressive thing. You no longer have to get a certain amount of points to progress to the next chapter like you had to do in the second game. There are no chapters. Instead, you go to the map and choose which mission you want to do, and each mission is different but always involves saving people, and that is always fun. Also, there are times when crime will break out while you are swinging, and as Spider-Man, it is your job to stop it! All of these things makes the game last longer, and also makes it a little more real.

Needless to say, the graphics for the game are excellent. I don't know how they compare to other systems, but for X-Box 360, they beat any version of the previous Spider-Man games when it comes to what it looks like as well. The city looks beautiful and Spidey looks cool during the story and swinging through the streets. Which brings me to another different aspect to this game that is a cool addition. During parts of some stories, you actually get to act it out instead of just watching. You get to participate! This is done by pushing the A button, and the X for example during the fight sequences when it tells you to. If you mess up, no worries, it gives you as many chances as you need to finally get the timing and sequence right.

Overall, this game is just fun. From side missions such as defusing bombs or giving a ride to MJ through the city as she tells you how much she is having fun, this game just beats any other Spidey game so far. It has a lot to offer, and you will enjoy this game.

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.

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

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.

best game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: May 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Do Not listen to anyone else. this is the best spiderman game of them all. the web spinning is still awesome, graphics are great, the crimes have never been better. all hail spiderman 3!!!

A fun game..,but not the best spiderman I have played.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is advertised as being absolutely huge. There are sewers and subways and of course the huge city underground. There are 42 missions, most of which are very fun. There are races, they are pretty boring, hard, and monotonous. There bomb runs where you play mini games to defuse bombs, and combat tours killing so many baddies. Bomb tours are my favorite.

It still feels like they don't take advantage of the huge enviroment they created. The fighting and camera work is so so. If you only get to play one spiderman game-make sure it isn't this one, go for Ultimate Spiderman where you can actually play Venom, but this is a close second.

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.

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