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The Amazing Spider-Man Fails to Amaze in Today's Review

Post by Steve Farrelly @ 07:24pm 29/06/12 | 18 Comments

I really, really wanted this Spidey outing to be good. After the success of the Batman: Arkham games, there's no reason for a Spidey game to fail, and the strength of comic-book movies at the box office and their general popularity overall, should really have the next batch of games based on top-tier characters sorted.

Unfortunately that's not the case, as I found out in this week's review. The Amazing Spider-Man suffers from a bit of 'me-too' against Bats' recent outings, and fails to find a cadence that suits your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. The potential in this character and his heritage is huge, but the execution of anything desirable, game-wise (and post his awesome Master System release moons ago), eludes anyone who gets their hands on his license.

Click here for out in-depth review of The Amazing Spider-Man.

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DM
Posted 07:28pm 29/6/12

I was going to pick this up this afternoon as well but missed the shops. Phew, saved $70 I guess.

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dais
Posted 10:00pm 29/6/12

Boo!

Why must Spider-Man games always suck?

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jackflash
Posted 03:13am 30/6/12

Because batman is way more awesome than marvel superhero's. glad of all the superhero games it was bats that succeeded. new spiderman movie looks terrible anyway.

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dais
Posted 06:48am 30/6/12

Wtf, the new movie looks excellent.

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Zakson
Posted 11:59am 30/6/12

Because batman is way more awesome than marvel superhero's. glad of all the superhero games it was bats that succeeded. new spiderman movie looks terrible anyway.

Did you miss the Iron Man movies or something?

Iron Man > "To conquer fear, you must become fear" Man

4:20

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darkjedi
Posted 01:26pm 30/6/12

Wtf, the new movie looks excellent.

Correction, new movie is excellent. Went to a preview screening last Monday night and utterly enjoyed it. New dude is a far superior Peter Parker than McGuire was, although the chick that plays Gwen Stacey never ends up in the rain without a bra on, so I guess there's points off for that.

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fpot
Posted 01:41pm 30/6/12

^ heh says the guy who thought the Star Wars prequels were good.

The early 2000s Spiderman movies sucked and the new movie looks like it will really suck as well. Basically, I don't really like Marvel superheroes and their movies all that much. Xmen/2/First Class were good and Ironman was okay.

That first Spiderman movie was amazingly bad actually.

edit: oh and The Avengers fucking owned.

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Khel
Posted 03:35pm 30/6/12

The new one looks a lot better than the Toby Mcguire ones, but I'm still remaining a bit cautious. And its no Dark Knight Rises.

Generally I prefer DC stuff to Marvel, but Marvel have been doing some pretty awesome movies lately. This new Spider-man movie is made by Sony though, not Marvel, so I'm not expecting the awesomeness of Iron Man or The Avengers out of it.

I'm desperately hanging out to see a trailer for Man of Steel, I'm hoping it can do for Superman what Batman Begins/The Dark knight has done for Batman.

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ravn0s
Posted 09:08pm 30/6/12

^ heh says the guy who thought the Star Wars prequels were good.

he's right though. the movie is getting amazing reviews from critics.

also apparently the oscorp building from the amazing spider-man was going to appear in the skyline of the avengers movie but they didn't have enough time to implement it. spidey in an avengers movie would be my dream come true.

last edited by ravn0s at 21:08:03 30/Jun/12

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totallysucks
Posted 10:29am 01/7/12

I feel like your score doesn't reflect the text of the review. You spend the entire review ragging on the game, then give it a 6.8 - a reasonably good score, I think. I was expecting a 4-5 by the time I got to the end.

Either way, I'll definitely be giving this one a miss.

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paveway
Posted 10:34am 01/7/12

Iron Man > "To conquer fear, you must become fear" Man

lol

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dais
Posted 09:06pm 08/7/12

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Khel
Posted 09:28pm 08/7/12

In other news I thought the new movie was pretty good, better than the Toby Mcguire ones anyway. As my brother put it, it was great to have a Peter Parker that was actually excited to be Spider-man and wanted to be Spider-man, instead of emo whinging, whining Toby.

Was a bit slow to get going, but thats the downside of it being another origin movie I guess.

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Nerfy
Posted 09:46pm 08/7/12

Spiderman 3 was shit, but the whole "how the fuck does he survive financially and academically outside of that?" story explored in Spiderman 2 was very well done I thought.

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ravn0s
Posted 09:58pm 08/7/12

new movie was good. better than raimi's fist film but not quite as good as sm2.

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Khel
Posted 01:56am 09/7/12

I really disliked Spider-man 2, possibly even more than the others, just because for half the movie hes not even Spider-man, hes just acting all emo and whinging about how hard it is to be Spider-man and having a big sook about how he doesn't want to be this awesome superhero anymore. That just ruined the whole movie for me, the whole "these powers are a curse, my life is so hard" thing just makes for shit watching.

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Nerfy
Posted 03:07am 09/7/12

I think that it was more so about showing how hard it was to juggle that with a normal young life, not that he didn't want to. The problems were stuff like does he save people but go unpaid and homeless for it?

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