Spiderman 3 Review

I had hoped so much that Spiderman 3 could match up to it's predecessor Spiderman 2. Unfortunately that was not to happen, it was in many ways an updated Spiderman 2 but that won't get it the same grade, there needs to be something new or at least make it enjoyable and Spiderman 3 fails at both. The graphics are worse then some PS2 games, like Kingdom Hearts 2 which because of a missing memory card I ended up playing more often then Spiderman 3 during the time I had the game rented.

Gameplay(37/100): Gameplay, what gameplay? This is the same stuff from Spiderman 2. Swing around, save people from random crimes, play random missions. Nothing changed accept for worse. Now you have to play button mashing segments trying to be similar to God of War's button sequences however these ones are just pure button mashing. Instead of pressing R2 and L2 to swing as you do in the game(well R2 is the main one but if you hold both you can get suspended on 2 webs) instead you're pressing jump(X), quick attack(Square), strong attack(Triangle). and web attack(O). The worst part is that after about 5 hours of pressing face buttons in button sequences suddenly an L1 popped up out of nowhere during one and threw me off completely. The button sequences are poorly timed, poorly coordinated, and just poorly executed in every single way.

Graphics(34/100): The graphics are so bad it's unbelievable at no point did I think I was playing on one the most powerful console on the planet. Hell I didn't even think the graphics would be worthy of contending with the best PS2 games like God of War 2 and Kingdom Hearts II. The window textures are clearly the same ones I saw in Spiderman 2. The models look the same except for decent shading on the bricks but the somewhat frequent missing pieces of the models was both hilarious and disheartening. Often the roof would be missing, which makes me wonder how the poor inhabitants of such building live with rain falling on them and the cold wind of NY blowing on them at night.

Story(46/100): The story is of course somewhat good because it is a movie game however they ruin it by adding scorpion(AGAIN?!), rhino(AGAIN?!), the lizard, and other villains who while being nice distraction didn't really have good plots behind their portions so it just worsened the story as a whole. Not to mention when New Goblin shows up and Peter is still acting relaxed? Doesn't make sense if you ask me if he has already faced some new bad guys. Overall it takes an already iffy movie storyline and makes it worse by adding villains that Spiderman had defeated in the previous games instead of tapping into the vast resource of spiderman villains, just seems like a lazy job by the development crew.

Sound(48/100): The nice fwish, fwish of the webbing is a nice distraction to the awkward voice acting, I mean the voice acting makes it seem like Tobey Macquire has never been in an ADR stage. Hitting each enemy sounds exactly the same and just ruins the immersion in the game if the poor graphics could immerse you in the first place. One of the most annoying things is the 'early James Bondish' fight between Harry and Peter, the random talking every once in a while but that is rare, most of the time there is just the silence while fighting on the board, just the jet running in the background, no music. Kinda bland.

Overall(41/100): Spiderman 3 unfortunately did not live up to my expectations. The poor gameplay, graphics, everything ruined it completely even the AI sucks. After being knocked to within one hit of dying on the board with Harry my friend pulled off an 83 hit combo which still didn't kill Harry but knocked his health down enough. That's another thing, bosses have ridiculously high health and you do almost no visible damage per hit yet they can take like 15% of your health bar away in one hit. The game is unbalanced and just in general a poor game, even if you're a spiderman fan I recommend you do not pick this up.