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
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows Features
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
User Reviews about Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
I bought this game for my grandson. He had one but his brother ruined it. He wanted another one so bad. Amazon had the best price so I bought it. He loves it and was excited about it. I am glad I bought it. -- spider man game
First of all, I want to say that all these bad reviews for the game are fair. Activision produced this game with the obvious intention of making it seem like it was the "real" Web of Shadows that was on other systems. They've done this before. I was burned on the Spider-man 2 game that was supposed to be a ground breaking sandbox style web slinging game, but for the PC they put out a completely different (and badly done) game made for little kids. From the box art it was nearly impossible to tell the difference. I'm still annoyed all these years later.
When I first saw this game, with the "Amazing Allies Edition" on the front, major red flags went up for me. The art work still looked like the other systems, but given past experience I wasn't buying it. Doing a little research, I found game footage online and knew what I was getting into. That is the key thing to remember, this game is entirely about your expectations. It is not a top of the line PS2 title by any means, but that doesn't mean it isn't enjoyable.
Web of Shadows (PS2) is a pretty decent retro-style beat 'em up experience. It is along the lines of Maximum Carnage for the old Sega Genesis. The problem is you have to play it for a while to realize that. One of the biggest hurdles is that the hit detection is just plain bad. If you are too close to an enemy you can punch right through them. It's sloppy, but it's consistently sloppy, so after some play time you can at least adjust for it. You also need to be able to adjust to the wide jumps Spider-man makes. He leaps around wildly, which is sometimes helpful and I suppose is realistic, but he can be hard to control.
I was quite impressed with the two suits. They actually did manage to do a pretty decent difference in the fighting style between the two. Normally, you'd think the black suit is just stronger and there's little reason for the red, but I found myself actually favoring the red in many situations. The red style utilizes the immobilizing powers of your webbing and combines it with some lightning fast moves. With some practice you can juggle guys somewhat and pound the living @$#@ out of them. Your black style is more about raw power and ends it's punching combo with a series of symbiote spikes that can launch enemies in the air. It's also used for smashing through walls, floors, etc.
The bosses were pretty easy on normal mode. I personally had fun with most of them. They can be a tad cheap, but at least if you lose you just restart at the beginning of the boss battle with out useless replaying from another checkpoint. I found them and most of the characters in general to be well modeled. There was a good amount of care given to some of the backgrounds, so that was a plus too.
The checkpoint system in the game is pretty good. I didn't like that I couldn't save anywhere, but the auto-saves were spaced really well and I never had any problems with that. It would have been nice to be able to save a couple different progresses, but not a deal breaker.
The voice of Spidey is OK as are most of the others, however there's an overall lack of voice acting and no space considerations (as the game only uses 1.4 Gigs of the DVD) to account for that. You end up reading a lot of text that you'd think they could have just had a programmer or the pizza delivery guy off the street just read it for a couple bucks.
There are also some inexplicable slow down issues where things will sort of stutter a bit like the game is trying to load more data while you fight. This really is unacceptable and can throw you off when it happens. The people on staff in charge of that and the hit detection should both be embarrassed to have their names on this project. Both areas show a lack of care in crafting and testing this game.
All things being said, everything about this software screams "bargain priced" software. There is a good game buried here, but with a lot of glitches and unpolished bits that function as a major a hindrance. It is unconscionable that they were charging $30-$40 for this game brand new. It's worth at most $20 new and maybe $15 used, but if you go in with your eyes wide open and know what you're getting into, you may just enjoy yourself. -- Not Half Bad If You Have The Right Expectations
I will agree with other reviewers that the gameplay could be better and the 2d aspect is a bit of a letdown. I do enjoy the storyline. I understand the frustrations of others with the way the game was marketed. I did not pay too much for the game and as a diehard spidey-fan I have enjoyed playing it. I have enjoyed every Spider-man game I have ever played from the NES games,Commodore 64, Arcades, and the current systems. I would encourage anyone buying any game to look at reviews of the game and if you are still unsure then find a place to rent the game and then if you don't like it you are not stuck with a game you don't like. -- could be better
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