Morning Discussion: Obama Won, BTW
While we were all waiting for the votes to come in, I passed the time by playing that new Spider-Man game, Web of Shadows. I have to say, I'm rather impressed. Shaba Games really nailed the controls, making it super easy to be swinging through the city and then start running up the side of a building and then attack a dude in mid-air.
That said, I think it could have used a few more months of polish. Playing on the Xbox 360, one of my mission objectives glitched out of existence. The music tends to skip while the open-world is loading from the disc, and I even encountered a hard lock-up. Some of the mission objectives can be rather generic, like kill X amount of this bad guy.
But that's okay, because I'm having a blast swinging through the open city, running up buildings, looking for those spider-shaped level-up orbs. It's like Crackdown, on crack. And if I happen to kill X amount of bad guys during that time, well, so be it.
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pancake humper
replyChris Faylor, what console are you playing Spiderman on?
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Yeah, Spider-Man's voice work is really horrible. The writing has its moments--Moon Knight, a Luke Cage tiara joke--but it isn't consistent.
I'm apparently 1/3 of the way through, so I'm gonna stick with it for a bit. It's nice and relaxing to just swing through the city and beat up random bad guys, and I really like hunting down those spider orb things.-
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Xbox 360. I actually edited that in before I saw your post!
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Does the slow-mo combat get old? The initial trailers seemed like it would get boring after awhile.
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Nah, not really. Mostly because I'm just web-zipping from bad guy to bad guy, and there's an emphasis on timing there that is actually aided by slow-mo.
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On the topic of Web of Shadows, yes it is pretty cool. Someone put it best that it's a B-Grade game lost in a sea of A-Grade games that not enough people are going to check out. On 'Kill X number of Y', I like that. There's no bones about what the game is: flying around and beating people and/or things up and I like that progressing is always about combat.
I'm also pleased to see no awful Spiderman races through the city. The web swinging has always been fun, but when you needed to be precise going in a certain direction in the past, it wasn't all that great.
It's a very good game and if people find the end to Fallout3 and Fable2 and Gears of War 2 in the near future, it shouldn't be skipped.
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