I've got the house to myself this weekend so I thought I'd get the snacks in and treat myself to an impromptu game purchase.
I'd not really seen much of the game at all, but what I will say...
HOLY **** there are a lot of jaggies. Seriously, it's like playing Riddick on the Xbox at times.
It's particuarly noticeble on the intro sequence, which is an on rails lab First person lab tour, ala Deus ex or Half Life.
The game seems to be set directly after the events of the film, so is possibly quite spoilery, although I've played enough film tie ins to know that the plot of the games is often so far removed from the film it's unrecognisable. Only time will tell.
Soon you are getting to hop around inside, it's clear that spiderman is better suited to large environments than the interiors as he moves a tad too fast, despite them clearly having scaled up the inside of the buildings.
After a little while I'm swinging furiosly around a giant robot, which although it looks pretty cool I get the impression I'm not really having to do much in order to kill it, as you'd expect from a game like this, plenty of button prompts are flashing up on screen.
I'm forced into another interior mission, when I damn wanted to do some free roam! I'm now in an asylum, fighting straight jacketed mental patients, the combat system has clearly been inspired by Arkham asylum, with Spider senses allowing you to dodge and counter attacks in the exact same fashion as batman.
Some interior fighting later I'm in a room with guards with guns, I have to stealth kill them one by one, that's right, but sneaking into rafters and crawling around the room via tunnels and air vents, alerting them usually results in my insta-death. Sound Familiar? It is eerily familiar.
Shameless rip off or "homage"?
I suspect it's the former.
After a few of these missions which are essentially a prolonged tutorial the free roam happens. I get to jump uncontrollably around the jaggy city of Manhatten. Spiderman has magic web that can stick to thin air, but it's only active when you are near enough to a building, which works well enough. my main problem is that so far i don't feel like I'm able to get any decent forward momentum (maybe some upgrades later will fix that?) most of the speed comes from the free falling.
I'd not really seen much of the game at all, but what I will say...
HOLY **** there are a lot of jaggies. Seriously, it's like playing Riddick on the Xbox at times.
It's particuarly noticeble on the intro sequence, which is an on rails lab First person lab tour, ala Deus ex or Half Life.
The game seems to be set directly after the events of the film, so is possibly quite spoilery, although I've played enough film tie ins to know that the plot of the games is often so far removed from the film it's unrecognisable. Only time will tell.
Soon you are getting to hop around inside, it's clear that spiderman is better suited to large environments than the interiors as he moves a tad too fast, despite them clearly having scaled up the inside of the buildings.
After a little while I'm swinging furiosly around a giant robot, which although it looks pretty cool I get the impression I'm not really having to do much in order to kill it, as you'd expect from a game like this, plenty of button prompts are flashing up on screen.
I'm forced into another interior mission, when I damn wanted to do some free roam! I'm now in an asylum, fighting straight jacketed mental patients, the combat system has clearly been inspired by Arkham asylum, with Spider senses allowing you to dodge and counter attacks in the exact same fashion as batman.
Some interior fighting later I'm in a room with guards with guns, I have to stealth kill them one by one, that's right, but sneaking into rafters and crawling around the room via tunnels and air vents, alerting them usually results in my insta-death. Sound Familiar? It is eerily familiar.
Shameless rip off or "homage"?
I suspect it's the former.
After a few of these missions which are essentially a prolonged tutorial the free roam happens. I get to jump uncontrollably around the jaggy city of Manhatten. Spiderman has magic web that can stick to thin air, but it's only active when you are near enough to a building, which works well enough. my main problem is that so far i don't feel like I'm able to get any decent forward momentum (maybe some upgrades later will fix that?) most of the speed comes from the free falling.
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