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Disappointing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 19 / 21
Date: May 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Don't ask me why, but I kind of had high hopes for the Spider-Man 3 video game. Considering how much I loved the surprisingly great Spider-Man 2 game, I figured that Spider-Man 3 would just expand on what the previous title explored with it's immersive environments. Sadly, what we get with Spider-Man 3 is more of the same, only this time around it just comes off as boring and is only fun in small spurts. Once again you play as the wall crawler as you swing through a huge rendering of New York City, which once again is designed wonderfully and just aches to be explored. Sadly though, for such a huge city, not much seems to be going on, and the repetitive missions and choices placed throughout the game are just more grating than anything else. For a late in life PS2 game, Spider-Man 3 looks pretty good, and the controls are pretty responsive as well, and there's still fun to be had in swinging around the city, though depending on how often you've played previous Spider-Man games, that fun's lasting effect will vary. Not to mention that the game's hook: playing in the black Venom costume, never really goes anywhere either. Tobey Maguire once again lends his voice as Spidey, while other cast members from the film like James Franco, Topher Grace, Thomas Haden Church, and J.K. Simmons are all here as well along with a returning Bruce Campbell as the game's guide/narrator. All in all, Spider-Man 3 is worth a look, but much like the film itself, this game will leave you a bit disappointed because there was a boatload of potential here to make something really memorable.

One of the Best Spider-Man Games!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 20
Date: May 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game today and played it and it had really cool graphics.I got the hang of the moves and I can't wait to get to the level where you use the black suit spider-man.This game has very good gameplay and it is fun.I am asuming that venom will be the hardest to beat or sandman where he turns into a giant.This game is really cool and fun!The movie is out and this game is highly recommended.

Every hero has a dark side...Unleash yours!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 18
Date: May 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Spider-Man 3 the movie is now the game. Play as the classic and the black suited Spider-Man, each with their own special moves and powers. Playstation 2 owners will have a special treat. After you beat the game, you can choose four more storylines!!! The first two games were great, but surpasses the two!! A must have!! 9.5 out of 10!!

Uh, just okay

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm a HUGE fan of the Spider-man 2 game on PS2. After finishing the game, I literally spent hours and hours swinging from building to building in sort of a "stress release after work" mode. One of my favorite things to do was to climb to the top of the Empire State Building, and jump off in a great swan dive, spiralling down until just before I hit the ground. Talk about thrilling!

So, I was excited when I learned that Spider-man 3 was coming out this weekend just as the movie was about to hit the theaters. However, the results are coming off as a bit disappointing. I spent most of yesterday playing the game, and admittedly, I'm not through the entire experience. So far, I've been less than impressed, compared to the fun experience in Spidey 2. Here are some of the changes in the third game:

1.. New York City seems much less detailed than in the first one. Several buildings of importance seem to be missing, mainly the UN and the Chrysler Building. I actively sought out those buildling, especially the Chrysler Building with it's great eagle heads that allowed for some fun dives in SM2. Not here. Not, at least, as I could find. The city as a whole seems more like a shadow of itself. Where is Madison Square Garden? Ellis Island?

2. Once you complete a mission, the screen momentarily goes black, and then, you are back in the city. I know this might seem petty, but for some reason, it was really irritating me. Once I was done with a mission, I wanted to zoom away and not have to wait for the game to reset.

3. The police issues are constantly repetitive. Now, this was an issue in SM2... I mean, how many balloons did I have to rescue? But with this game, I already had to rescue tourists from canisters of laughing gas three times yesterday set by warring gangs. Canisters of laughing gas? C'mon!

4. The "bad guys" resemble odd creatures from the Black Lagoon. When sent on an errand, you fight these weird looking creatures that are definitely not human. Occasionally, with gang activity, you actually get to fight people, but for the most part, you are up against these Sleestacks things.

5. On one of the first photographic missions, you are sent to Central Park to photograph "lizard like creatures" terrorizing the citizens. That was just plain silly. I stopped wanting to go to the Bugle offices quickly to avoid any more embarrassing assignments like that!

6. The people on the streets are rendered quite unrealistic. At one point, I was transferring a victim to an ambulance on a sidewalk. As I was doing so, a citizen walked right through the ambulance, as if she were a ghost. That rendering is almost laughable. On another occasion, I was returning a car bombing victim to an ambulance, and the vehicle was parked backed up against a building. I actually had to walk into the wall to set the victim down. I don't recall that ever happening in SM2. Plus the people don't really seem to have any sense of physicality. They are frequently walking through cars, things on the sidewalk, and sometimes even me, Spider-man!

On the plus side, the Spidey controls are similar to SM2, and zipping along the buildings is still quite fun. There seems to be more taller buildings that in SM2. At night, the buildings look quite pretty. The game seems to follow the movie (I have yet to see it this weekend), and has other side stories that integrate into the game.

Overall, I was expecting so much more from SM3! I wanted them to keep the original format of the game in SM2, and make gentle improvements, and follow the story for the latest movie. Instead, they ended up tinkering with what I loved most, and in the end, created an incredibly disappointing product.

Good thing I still have SM2, I think I'll pop it in right now and take a joyful swing around the town I love so well. And maybe I'll get back to SM3.... but no rush.

Average... Just average...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bet you were wondering when there would be a perfect super-hero game. If you were thinking it was now you were gravely mistaken. About three or so months before the release of the game, I was reading all of the hype and saying this is totally going to whoop the Superman Returns game. When the movie came out, I saw it on the first weekend. It was cool. I was hoping the PS2 version would be just as cool. When I finally bought the game, I found out they put most of their work into the next generation consoles. Let me start with the good things. In the previous game, you could go around a huge open-world New York City. You can do the same here. In the game there are different groups of gangs which rule different parts of the city. You can try to make the crime rate drop, or you can decide to do story mode missions. Later in the game, you acquire the symbiote which is really awesome. You are like ten times powerful in that. After a while though you have to take it off before it kills you. Comic book fans will be pleased to see New Goblin, Sandman and Venom, along with Carlyle, Lizard, Kraven, Morbius, and Shriek. Also, Bruce Campbell's voice is a nice touch. Now the bad things. The graphics are horrible!! They are really just plain horrid. I think they are even ten times worse than Spiderman 2 (or the first Spiderman game for that matter)! And recently, I just discovered that Kingpin, Rhino, and Scorpion are only in the next-generation games. AARRRRRRRGHH!!!!! Also, you can't go into buildings like you could the last time. Basically, if you ask me, they never really improved with this game. If anything they made it worse. Personally though, I like it. But I still wish it could be better. Overall, it's just average...

Dumbed down version of Spidy 2

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: May 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

After playing Spiderman 2, several times, and having a blast every time (Sometimes I just like to swing around the city, exploring but not actually doing anything), I eagerly awaited Spidy 3. What a let down. There is still a full city to swing around, but the graphics are some of the worst I have seen since PS1. They not only lack detail, but are often shakey, like the system's processor is being overloaded. The stats are largely removed, and you can no longer check fun things like how fast you have swung, or how far you have fallen. The missions are a bit repetitive, but that was a flaw with Spidy 2, so I can't complain about that.

My biggest disappointment was the control of Spidy. the number of moves he can do is extremely limited. There are very few fighting combos to chose from. and his web abilities are almost non-existent. Forget about ever shooting more than one web, even when swinging (No more slingshotting yourself from between two buildings). My favorite move, the lamp post hanging, has been eliminated in this game, as well as many other great moves. Also, there is no longer a spider-sense mode, only the chance to dodge when his head gets a ring around it. And it becomes very annoying when you have to go anywhere quick, as there is no run mode. Wall crawling is very slow, and so is Spidy's regular movement. You need to swing to go anywhere fast, and it can become annoying when you are trying to cross a building's roof, you end up swinging off the roof.

Had this game just been a reprogrammed version of Spidy 2, with a new story line and villians, but everything else the same, it would have been repetitive, but fun. Instead, they tried to add new "features" like gang wars and photo taking, while greatly increasing the loading times and dumbing down the rest of the game, making it playable by even the most inexperienced of gamers. Spidy 2's hero mode was a chalenge for me. I beat this story mode on superhero, in under 5 hours of play time, with very little difficulty. I looked into doing the gang wars, but they became repetitive too quick, and I went back to the story. Even the swinging around the city was boring. Rent it if you're a fan, but not worth the buy.

spiderman rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: May 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

SPIDERMAN ROCKS AND IS SO COOL.WHEN YOU ARE THE BLACK SUITED SPIDERMAN YOU GET COOL NEW POWERS. THE GRAPHICS ARE PRETTY GOOD AND THE CONTROLS ARE MANAGEABLE.pEOPLE WHO SAY ITS BAD ARE IDIOTS. tHIS gAME IS AWESOME AND I DEFINETELY RECOMMEND IT.YOU CAN GO AROUND NEWYORK CITY AND EXPLORE THIS GAME WILL GIVE YOU HOURS OF FUN AND WILL NEVER GET OLD.

A REVIEW?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game after reading reviews about how HORRIBLE the graphics were, and how the camera just ruins everything, and the controls were terrible.

I have to say that i experienced minimal problems with the controls, little to no trouble with the camera angles, and the graphics, while not ground-breaking, were nothing to be ashamed of.

This game is quite fun, and i particularly liked the black suit feature, how you have to fight it to remove it. I also liked the fact that the controls and setup are exactly like that of 'Ultimate Spiderman'. The city is bigger than ever, and theres tons to roam and do. Theres 5 different gangs to beat up on, so im never all that bored. However, i beat the story mode in less than 7 hours. It was fun while it lasted, but it jsut flew by. Now, i have nothing to do but start over, or just roam and beat random thugs for fun. This to me is disappointing, because thats the majority of the replay value gone.

Anyways, fun game, DECENT graphics - a little rushed to meet movie deadlines and a little short. A nice addition to any spiderman fans collection, but probably not a super-defining piece.

Bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: May 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game really showed me that I should have sold my soul and bought a XBOX360 with the game but satan was not being nice so I setteld for this version:I was upset because this game had limeted qualitys for exsample spidey 2 was good doc oct was fun to fight but in this game you fight the lizard, venom,Sandman,and harry osborn AKA the new goblin which was fun but these are the main things that got me worked up over nothing:Bad graphics I saw the adverts and thought wow that looks good but THAT WAS THE XBOX360 VERSION the PS2 version was bad and the XBOX360 costs like 279 pounds also you cannot go into the subways or the sewers and the only other players you can be are Black suited spidey while in the others you can be harry osborn and YOU GET TO FIGHT KINGPIN that about sums it up nothing good to say about this

Game Informer raves "Best Spiderman game yet!" my response: "are you on crack?!"

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The whole game went into the programming of the black suit, fine and dandy, but that is the only thing they worked truly hard on. The more you put on the suit the harder it is to take off, pain in the *** if your in a boss battle. And the glitches, so many glitches, I had to restart my Ps2 on a brand new game. I played the second version of Spider-Man, not one glitch, not one complaint. The moves were well done along with the web rodeo when you swing around baddies in a circle, unfortunately the third game failed to accomplish this task of a smooth motion swing if you even managed to swing them. Poor dodge, they've reduced him to a roll away, no more super slo-mo bend backward and to the side almost infinitely. And they took bullets out of the third game. OMG! Is there no more challenges! Alright they do have a challenge, take a picture of every villain you see. Easier said than done especially when the villain's kicking your butt halfway across the city and your trying to find him in your lens, and that's not the only thing, you take a picture, think "well I got him on film, kick his butt to the curb, and wala, you lost the picture and you never find the guy again all because you didn't get him in the right spot so the camera turns green". This happened about 10 times. Then there's the meteorites. You have to find them, again easy enough, well... I peaked out at 11 after I scoured the city for hours. Then there's the Spidey symbols, there's 5, I found... 1, They better give you a **** load of stuff if you find 5. Another thing is that there's no stores to go into, a pleasure in the second game, and no buying with hero points that are easy to come by, only experience points that you have to take out about 1000 bad guys to get 1 while the new moves you get are about 8 of them. There should be a mass burning of this game.

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