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Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 144 months Binding: Video Game Brand: ACTIVISION EAN: 0047875832930 ESRB Age Rating: Teen Label: Activision Inc. Manufacturer: Activision Inc. Model: 047875832930 Platform: Nintendo Wii Publisher: Activision Inc. Release Date: October 21, 2008 Sales Rank: 632 Studio: Activision Inc.
Features:
Not-So-Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man - A fusion of web-slinging and powerful combat moves combine to create an unbeatable, all-new fighting system that intuitively blends Spider-Man's speed and strength with the environment for deadly new attacks and combos
Anything Goes - At a moment's notice, you can harness the grace, agility and acrobatics of Spider-Man Red Suit, or leverage the brute, savage power of the Black Suit. Switch suits at any time to create devastating never-before-seen combos and finishing moves
The City That Never Sleeps - Teeming with life, the Big Apple is more alive than ever before in the Spider-Man series. Citizens will either cheer Spider-Man on or run away in fear, depending on your actions and decisions
Increased city interactivity and destructibility allow you to pick up and use anything in your way as a weapon, destroy store fronts, demolish vehicles, and virtually obliterate city streets with powerful attacks
With some of the greatest heroes and most notorious villains in the Marvel Universe, including staples such as Luke Cage and Vulture, your choices control who will ultimately aid you in the fight to rid New York of the alien symbiote
Product Description: A deadly symbiote invasion brings devastation to New York City. In Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, the game is set in an apocalyptic vision of the city. You'll have complete control over New York City's salvation and the fate of Spider-man. It also features an all-new combat system that allows for three-dimensional battles that can start on the street and end up on rooftops. You can also switch between the red and black Spider-Man suits, choose to ally with Marvel's heroes or villains and decide what missions to undertake to save Manhattan from destruction.
Extra Credit - As you progress, you earn experience in multiple combat disciplines so you can custom-design your ideal Spider-Man Instant Replay - dozens of story choices and character customization options
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Web of Fun
Very addictive, great game play and fun for all ages.
Feel like Spiderman swinging from building to building fighting crime.
Rating: - Don't believe the hype!!..
Once again! The Wii gets another port and it has bugs.
The only new thing about this game is the story line and everything else is the same old web slinging around the city fighting thugs and helping the locals.
Most third party developers don't have interest in the Wii, Their too lazy to make games from ground up on the Wii, So they just port them from the PS2 and just add motion controls to them. Just look how they take their time making such top notch games on the other consoles(360,PS3) and the Wii gets the watered down versions(PS2).
Don't cheat your self out of [...]..It's not worth it!
Don't believe the other reviewers giving this rubbish 5 stars, Just because it's Spider-Man don't mean it's a good game.
Rating: - Best Spidey game on the Wii yet, which isn't really saying too much
Spider-Man hasn't had too good a track record on the Wii so far. Spider-Man 3 was awful, and while Friend or Foe wasn't as bad, it still wasn't much of an improvement. Spider-Man: Web of Shadows seems to be a step in the right direction, as this game doesn't feel like just another port, and actually feels like it was made with the Wii in mind. Case in point the Wii-mote and nunchuk controls which are much better implemented this time around, as you swing through New York City taking on baddies. Playing as Spidey and being able to alternate between the classic and black costumes, you swing around New York City cracking heads and saving citizens, which is pretty much what we've been doing since Spider-Man 2. However, what's different with Web of Shadows is that the game rarely becomes boring and the missions rarely become tedious to boot. Also, the game's story is a surprising blast to play through. The longer you play Web of Shadows, the more you'll get enthralled, particularly in its final acts where the symbiotes begin to wreak havoc. The ability to (somewhat) choose your own path depending on your actions is a plus, and there's plenty of appearances from familiar faces on the sides of heroes and villains as well. The only real flaws of Web of Shadows are technical ones. There are some noticeable graphical glitches and sound hiccups, plus a few issues with the in-game camera. Still, swinging around New York City has never been more fun or easy to do, and the game manages to stay entertaining from start to finish. All in all, Spider-Man: Web of Shadows for the Wii finally finds the web-head getting a game on the Wii that's worthy of him. Let's just hope the next time around that Activision and Treyarch add some more polish and really deliver something special.
Rating: - Best spider-Man game, with some flaws.
The last few years have seen a big mess of Spider-man.Films, games based on films...And that killed the games based on the comics.While this game takes more of a comic inspired approach, they go their own way with the story and some other details. Ill let you know what I thought they ddi right, and what they completely burned to the ground.
First off, Wii owners did NOT get a bad port of a PS2 version for once.You get just about everything that the Xbox360/PS3 get, minus the obviously superior graphics.Lets start there-The graphics are not bad.Not the best Ive seen on a Wii game, but it has a much better character model then Spider-Man 3, pretty smooth animations,and a not entirely but still kinda sucky camera. It can slow down a lot in high number fights, but for the most part its smooth.
Controls on a Wii game can make but usually break it.Besides one problem that will pop up frequently, the controls work and feel pretty natural after the small learning curve.With experimentation you will find that Spider-Man has quite a few cool things he can do with the enviornment with the right timing and button, many based on his comic book signature moves. Jump towards a wall, push against it and let go, you will kick off the wall jumping into the air again. Jump at a wall and hit the jump button again on impact, and you will stick to the wall in a classic pose until you release the button. Major comic fans will ove these little things.
There is basically a button for punching, jumping,interacting and using webs followed by waggle control for lock ons, costume switching, web chain attacks, web zips, and just normal web-swinging.
Pros-the combat system is amazing, as it allows you to chain hundreds of attacks together through the air to the ground to the walls.Web swinging is simple and fun again, and does'nt use the horrible nunchuk like SM3.
Cons-You flick the nunchuk left or right to change costumes, and down to lock on to enemies.You should be used to nunchuk waggle controls sucking, and if you arent, well this sucks.You will lock on when trying to change costumes or vice versa in some very bad times.
The storyline is pretty basic, and is really just a way to give you more missions which are pretty much kill everything in sight or save someone.Throw in some cool boss fights, and thats the game.Yes, you will fight a lot.Besides collecting tokens to improve speed and strength, you will most often fight.Did I get it in your head yet? FIGHT.It will bore some people.You can skip most of the side missions if you want so that you fight LESS, but you get the idea.If anything once in a while they could have added a cool button sequence rescue like what was in ultimate spidermans storyline sometimes,so lets hope for some improvememnt here in the future.The list of other characters that you meet or mention is a great bonus for marvel readers though.You even get quizzed on spidey knowledge at one point.Nice.
There are a few glitches in the game that i have to mention.Number one is the buzzing freeze, no explanation needed.I didnt get this untill later on in the game, but it sucks.Other epople online have reported things that vanish, missions that dont show up or parts of missions that dont show up, which allow you to never move on unless you reload the game-I have not seen any of this, but I thought I might as well mention it.
Oddball details will occur-Venom is mentioned as Eddie, even though he looks based on the new scorpion venom design.Things like this make it hard to place exactly when this occurs(though its not canon by any account). But overall, I have had fun with this game and plan on replaying it to get the different ending.It could be better, but is in my opinion the best spider-man game we have to date.
Rating: - Unbelievable!
This is the best Spider-Man game ever made. It's even better than Spider-Man 2 which was so good I've played it for over three years - in fact I was still playing it before Web of Shadows was released.
Web of Shadows takes everything was great about Spider-Man 2 and adds more. The combat is simply incredible. Not only can you engage foes on the ground, but now you can take the fights to the side of buildings, and even into mid air (something I have always wanted to do.)The swinging controls are also good and very smooth. All the controls integrate very well with the Wii-mote and nun chuck.
There are lots of things to do in this game, and although the story mode is a tad short, it's made up for by a large number of side missions. But the main draw here is definitely the combat, and this is something that never gets old. Spider-Man Web of Shadows is the Spider-Man game I've been waiting for all my life. Definitely worth a buy!
- Web of Fun
- Don't believe the hype!!..
- Best Spidey game on the Wii yet, which isn't really saying too much
