Movie tie-ins... oh movie tie-ins, I don't know why I ever dare hope they'll be exemplary. But I'm just a sucker for Spider-Man games, especially ones that promote free-roaming as a central mechanic. They really should have had a giant pulsating asterisk next to that 'free-roaming' part.
Yes, you can free roam around a virtual New York, zipping around with a competent and fun web-swinging mechanic, but you're going to have to stop every five minutes to save the whiny citizens of New York from the save identical set of crimes. Can you ignore these crimes? Nope. The thing that really kills this game is the godawful Hero/Menace system, a half-baked morality mechanic that punishes you for not stopping crimes in their limited timeframe. Miss too many crimes and you'll have to deal with turrets, flying gun drones and killer fucking robots. As crimes are constantly happening all over the map, you'll never solve all of them and you'll never be able to keep your hero rating at max.
I've never played inFAMOUS and thought 'wow this morality stuff is great, but it would be even better if there were zero rewards for either karma path. And hell, the game should just fuck with my morality regardless of what I do.'
The game has a clear hard-on for the Arkham series, mimicking the same combat system... albeit much worse. Spidey moves far too floaty compared to the crunchy and precise combat of of Arkham, with enemies that can punch clean through your own attacks and a wonky auto-lock system that refuses to prioritize the larger threats among groups of enemies. Some boss fights and moments even seem copied straight from Arkham, with Kraven copying Copperhead and Kingpin being a dupe of Bane from Asylum. Hell, the finale seems like a cheapo version of the finale from Arkham Origins.
Outside of some decent moments and a good collection of costumes and comics, this is only for extreme fans wanting a Spidey fix. Get it on the cheap and look past the mediocre graphics and laughable cutscenes and minuscule campaign.
Activision, if Beenox doesn't want to be anything more than mediocre, than please give the license to another dev-team...
VideoGame The Game: In case you ever need a reason NOT to be a superhero
Movie tie-ins... oh movie tie-ins, I don't know why I ever dare hope they'll be exemplary. But I'm just a sucker for Spider-Man games, especially ones that promote free-roaming as a central mechanic. They really should have had a giant pulsating asterisk next to that 'free-roaming' part.
Yes, you can free roam around a virtual New York, zipping around with a competent and fun web-swinging mechanic, but you're going to have to stop every five minutes to save the whiny citizens of New York from the save identical set of crimes. Can you ignore these crimes? Nope. The thing that really kills this game is the godawful Hero/Menace system, a half-baked morality mechanic that punishes you for not stopping crimes in their limited timeframe. Miss too many crimes and you'll have to deal with turrets, flying gun drones and killer fucking robots. As crimes are constantly happening all over the map, you'll never solve all of them and you'll never be able to keep your hero rating at max.
I've never played inFAMOUS and thought 'wow this morality stuff is great, but it would be even better if there were zero rewards for either karma path. And hell, the game should just fuck with my morality regardless of what I do.'
The game has a clear hard-on for the Arkham series, mimicking the same combat system... albeit much worse. Spidey moves far too floaty compared to the crunchy and precise combat of of Arkham, with enemies that can punch clean through your own attacks and a wonky auto-lock system that refuses to prioritize the larger threats among groups of enemies. Some boss fights and moments even seem copied straight from Arkham, with Kraven copying Copperhead and Kingpin being a dupe of Bane from Asylum. Hell, the finale seems like a cheapo version of the finale from Arkham Origins.
Outside of some decent moments and a good collection of costumes and comics, this is only for extreme fans wanting a Spidey fix. Get it on the cheap and look past the mediocre graphics and laughable cutscenes and minuscule campaign.
Activision, if Beenox doesn't want to be anything more than mediocre, than please give the license to another dev-team...