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Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
- Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, Windows, Mac, PSP, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo 64
- Price: $59.99
- Genre: Action/Adventure
Common Sense Media says
High-flying action that grows repetitive quickly.
Parents say
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that combat plays a prominent role in Spider-Man's latest adventure. Most of the game is spent punching, kicking, and hurling enemies throughout the city. However, the game doesn't include any blood or gore.
What's it about?
Even superheroes have their bad moments. In the case of Spider-Man, it happens in the form of Activision's SPIDER-MAN WEB OF SHADOWS. While the combat is often exhiliarating, the adventure feels very one-dimensional. New York City has been invaded by an alien symbiote infecting citizens, and it's up to Spider-Man to thwart it.
Unlike recent Spider-Man titles which focus on open-world action, Web of Shadows emphasizes combat. Your hero pummels foes on the ground, along the facades of skyscrapers and even in mid-air. As you vanquish foes from drug dealers to super villains, you'll earn points toward new attacks. You can also pick up glowing spiders scattered throughout the city that increase your speed. A twist to the storyline is Spider-Man himself has been infected by the symbiote. As a result, Spider-Man can take advantage of the symbiote's powers in the form of an all-black costume. While Spider-Man deftly bounces past enemies in his traditional red and blue suit, the black version whips long tendrils at foes and uses brute strength to punish enemies. Some elements of open world games, like light exploration and sporadic side quests, appear as well.
Is it any good?
Fights look and feel incredible, particularly once you leave the ground. You can pull yourself toward enemies with a web shot and let loose a flurry of punches and kicks. You can also slings gobs of web to slow foes before beating them down. Out of all the Spider-Man video games, Web of Shadows is arguably the best at conveying the character's speed and agility.
Where Web of Shadows fails is the game's singular focus on combat. The game simply involves swinging from fight to fight. There are occassions where you rescue civilians or chase down an enemy, but they're rare. What's worse is the combat itself is fun initially, but grows repetitive as you see Spider-Man repeatedly execute the same moves. Web of Shadows may dazzle at first, but don't expect the thrills to last very long.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about how Web of Shadows compares to other Spider-Man video games. How is this game better or worse? Also, what are some of the best video games based on comic book characters?
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awsome
a great game for spidey fans 10 or above a villent game but spidey helps by doing it. the game shows spiderman second sturgle with the black suit you pick the choices he makes thourout the game the constent desicion is red or black evil or good
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Best Spidey game ever!
The swinging is fun, fighting is the best I've seen in any superhero game and the story is long and good. 4 different endings gives you 4 times replay value and if your like me you'll replay it like 805415460525405010 times just to play the game again. The boss fights are great and the but the last boss was to easy so yeah. all in all I say if your a Spidey fan then buy this game.
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Good for tweens!
Great game, I strongly recommend this game for tweens and teens!
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Kid, 12 years old
May 8, 2011
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1. freedom 5/5
In this game you can do almost anything to anybody which is cool you can go from throwing mailboxes at enemys to making cars explode it has no time limit to have fun and the craziest thing is your getting rewarded for being a jerk and blowing up cars and letting hurt civilians die! Basicly you get red suit points for doing good and you get black suit points for doing bad which is totaly messed up Spidy's sposed to be controling his black suit not going crazy with it in the movie; no wonder MJ hated his black suit
2. Story 4/5
MJ hates you because he wears his black suit because she's worried he'd go crazy and he pritty much does it without her later in the game humans start turning symbiotic and climbing walls and buildings trying to kill you and police appear out of nowhere and see you fighting with them so they shoot you don't you thing the police would understand if these people start climbing walls and you don't have to have a backwards football jersy to be evil. I think New York should hire some new cops.
3 controls 4/5
The controls worked pretty well in this game with one bad exeption of the dragon's lair cutscene which means moving with the story in cutscene form.
4.Cool nes 5/5
Coolest looking game I've ever seen you can even get cool upgrades to your attacks the webstrike or cannonball attacks were the best but the coolest attack was the tendril or as I like to call it tenticle attack
Replibility 5/5
After you defeat the game it will instantly go to the credits which stunk there was about a million sidequests to explore during the game! If I were those creators I'd just let spidy run around causing mischief to the town and destroying people's cars. But it still deserves 5/5
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Kid, 12 years old
March 25, 2011
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This is a good game but is violent. venom is turning good,bad, and plain people is turning people into symbiotes. Spiderman can make a choice beetween good and bad. If your fighting symbiote wolerine you can let him get it off or litterly rip him into 2 parts. You have to fight venom,black cat,vulture,electro and others. Overall good game but most violent spiderman game ever. p.s. wolverine being ripped apart dosnt show anything that looks like it came out of Gears of War.
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Kid, 12 years old
February 12, 2011
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nintendo 64????????!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL. They said this is for n64!!!!!! WHAT? Common sense are you for real????????!!!! This game is amazing. I like it for wii the best!!!!! Not bad at all really. exellent game, great graphics, ps2 version bites!!!! I love it! The best spiderman game in the world!! THe only violence is when you jump off buildings to get people and things. You also can get people, and grab them for answers. I thought this was great. It is way better than the games of the movies, but I have to admit, there good too.
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awsome
people say this games sucks but i rented this game and i loved it ps: im a huge spiderman fan no kidding but i think this is for ages 10 and up
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perfect for all ages
well i think this is the best spiderman game so far, and i have played all of them, the highlights of this game are that they actualy added a couple more bridges other than just that one into this game, i bought this game a few months before we actually went to nyc for the first time and i found out how inaccurate the city is in all the games except spiderman 2, the violence isnt to bad niether is the language, but black cat is kinda flirtacious in this game, its a pretty good game overall so i would reccomend it to people of all ages
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Not bad
The gameplay is nice, there are multiple ways to tell the story.
Some of the 'black suit' attacks are rather brutal, but not so much so as to detract from Spidey's usual vein.
As to the 'consumerism', most billboards are just reverences to companies that feature in Marvel comics.
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awesome
Even though I easily beat it fluently in four days, I thought that this was a totally different Spider-Man experience (it's T, but what kind of teenager would play Spider-Man? Settle down, ESRB!) I give it an E rating because the violence was a little strong and they said the word "hell" sometimes. Nothing wrong, a great game.
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| Topics: | superheroes |
| Platforms: | Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, Windows, Mac, PSP, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo 64 |
| Available online? | Not available online |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure |
| Developer: | Activision |
| Release date: | October 23, 2008 |
| Price: | $59.99 |
| ESRB rating: | T for Animated Blood, Drug Reference, Mild Language, Mild Suggestive Themes, Violence |
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