He is a brawler in the purest sense of the word, engaging enemies directly with haymakers and long-range strikes from his tentacles. Venom controls like a tank, forgoing the nimble precision web-lining of Spider-Man in favor of hundred-foot bounds from roof-top to roof-top. Conversely, the Venom missions are linear point A to point B style objectives. This is partly because they're random and partly because they vary from delivering an injured person to the hospital to thwarting a bank robbery from a B supervillain.Ĭombat as Spider-Man is fun, utilizing his speed and web swinging to engage multiple enemies from both the air and the ground. The City Events do the best job of making you feel like a superhero. The Combat Tours are a fun distraction, but they all follow the same formula: beat up the thugs, go to the next area, beat up more thugs. At one point in those races you'll always find yourself swinging back into the camera, unaware of the location of your next checkpoint or what's directly in front of you. Races that require you to double back are almost intolerable thanks to the camera. This is due more to their complexity than their skill requirement. The easy races are all merely distractions, but the medium difficulty races take a large step in difficulty. The amount of enjoyment found in racing varies. In order to advance the story a certain number of each event or goal must be completed. Combat tours have our hero battling local gangs atop buildings, in alleys and on the streets of the Big Apple, while City Events are randomly generated combat or emergency situations. Races, as the name suggests, involve following a given path in the quickest possible time.
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As Spider-man there are a number of events and goals to complete.
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As our titular hero you're given reign to a wide-open New York City full of gangs, emergencies and the occasional super villain. Gameplay is split between Spider-Man and Venom. The first time you meet Ultimate Green Goblin or Ultimate Rhino it becomes apparent that this isn't the traditional Marvel Universe. Writers of Ultimate titles are given creative freedom to amend comic book lore as they see fit and the liberties are pretty obvious. Here, classic comic book characters and story arcs are placed in a more contemporary setting.
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The result is a game that looks like a moving comic book.Īs for the game itself, Ultimate Spider-Man takes place in Marvel's Ultimate universe. This is made all the more credible by the use of Ultimate Spider-Man comic book artist Mark Bagley's sketches as a template for all of the character and city models. Rather than recycle the graphic engine from Spider-Man 2 developer Treyarch opted for a cel-shaded graphical style that's more akin to the comic book than real-life. The first thing to really grab your attention in Ultimate Spider-Man is the game's visuals. Of course they're going to be different that's the whole point. The majority of complaints I found in other reviews stemmed from the differences between this game and Spider-Man 2. Any differences between this year's title and last year's title, albeit combat, web-swinging or otherwise, are strictly intentional. Ultimate Spider-Man should be played under the following disclaimer: This is not a sequel to last year's Spider-Man title.