XB Ultimate Spiderman review:5 stars (Stunning treatment of the Spiderman franchise.) - I was amazed at the fresh new direction Treyarch took this game into. It's really like diving into a hyper-active comic book. The missions are all fun, some are challenging but well worth the effort to beat them. Perhaps a few too many race missions, but the diversity of gameplay is top notch.
My 8 year old son loves this game to pieces.
Highly recommended to all Spidey fans!2 stars (Disapointing) - Ultimate Spider-Man started out alright. It was more fun to play Venom than Spider-Man. The problem is that the game because redundent. There are two types of mission aside from the storyline for Spider-man. You have to finish so many mission to advance to the next story plot -either fight a villain or play Venom-. But the missions are all the same you fight some minor criminals that you can take out with three hits without any real damage; even if they're armed. The other mission is a race, which can be fun. But fighting the main becomes a problem. Not only are there annoy races to catch up to a villain after he runs -and you can't attack him during the chase-. But the way for defeating them becomes the same. You jump around waiting for the point that you can attack for a few hits, jump back, continue jumping around avoiding attacks, hit them again, jump around some more, etc. etc. It got to the point that fightening the Beetle as Venom was simply frustrating and I lost interest.
I would suggest renting this game if anything, but don't spend the money to buy it unless you actually like it.3 stars (THE CONTROLS ARE HIDEOUS!! JUST RENT IT!!!) - I am huge Spiderfan and am willing to forgive almost anything a game does wrong as long as it is fun. Unfortunately the controls in this game are god awful. I was able to beat the game and knock out a good chunk of the unlockables in two sittings and all the while I fumbled about like a complete idiot thanks to the lousy controls. Plus every single boss battle and story mission is precipitated by or consists of a pointless and frustrating chase. The game looks great and truly does feel like a comic book which is cool but Spider Man 2 is still a much better game. Not worth owning even for die hards. |
