Akas said:
I disagree. Check out the DS version of Spiderman: WoS. It's actually decent and fun, and it actually might be the best version out of all of them even though (and perhaps because) it plays like a side-scroller beat-em-up.
But is it on par with
X-Men Arcade?
John Tacos said:
Okay then, just a question: How? I'm not being hostile, I just am a little hesitant to believe considering the track record. While you explain Ill look at the website.
Ok, as I mentioned above, it's mainly the combat. Y'know how Spidey's always tended to fight with both feet off the ground in comics, using webs to great effect, but none of the games before WoS really managed to make that possible? That resulted in a great disconnect between swinging (great, mostly) and fighting (meh at best) almost as great as that between overland and battle screen in a
Final Fantasy game.
The major twist in formula this time is "Web-Strike". It kind of acts like an "auto-attach" button for a nearby or locked target. Hitting a web-strike slows time for a second while Spidey flings a thread out to the enemy in question, automatically rocketing him to that enemy's side, allowing the initiation of combos and special throws and all that. The same enemy can be web-struck again, starting a new combo, or a new enemy can be hit. This really conveys the sense of getting spidey to bounce from foe to foe, hitting them or setting them up and all that fun stuff.
Web-striking also facilitates a lot of awesome aerial combat, as as long as there are enemies in reach, you don't necessarily need a building to latch onto. For that matter, most of that great Vulture boss battle takes place in the sky, with you grabbing onto his flunkies, bouncing off, and then pummeling the Vulture himself.
Changing suits also opens different combos. Switching to black in mid-throw.
In fact, web-strike is just a bit
too effective at times, since it's a guaranteed hit, but some enemies (like Wolverine), can break a strike, countering you unless you break the strike and flip over at the right second. It's almost breathtaking once you get the hang of it, and all the little effect graphics are brilliant.
I'm talking this up perhaps a bit more than it really deserves, but it's definitely worth a rental if you're desperate for something to recapture the glory, or at least do justice to Spider-Man.
