Zero Punctuation: Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions

[j4remi]

I don't know why, but this review felt especially brutal. I haven't played a spiderman game in a long time and considered giving this a shot...but there's no way after that murder. Lol @ the spiderman box walking around with a hat begging for acceptance at the end...perfect image for me to laugh at for the next week.

 

[Vrud]

. . . Did Yahtzee just rip off John Solomon at the end, there?
http://web.archive.org/web/20071205183637/http://badwebcomics.blogspot.com/2007/06/tangents.html

 

[UnravThreads]

Second, Nolan North as Deadpool? I don't know how I feel about that.

North voiced him in Hulk vs Wolverine (Straight-to-DVD release), and he was actually pretty good. Not bad at all [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAI5y20X2Gk]

 

[daxterx2005]

poor shattered Dimensions, it just wants a friend

 

[duchaked]

"nolan north, who I'm sure is a perfectly nice man in real life" xD hilarious

my friend and I actually just rented this game last night, and while it's more of his thing (he's played it a lot more than I) it's not too too bad (except that the swinging lock on really bugs me)

 

[WaderiAAA]

Spiders aren't that slow if you consider the "ants are the strongest animals on the planet" logic. I mean, the fastest man in the world can run with a miximum speed of about six time his own height per second. Spiders can easily beat that if they need to flee from something.

 

[Legion]

Seeing as you are apparently the kind of person who buys things based upon others opinions other than your own you can give all your money to me if you like.

./palm-through-face

Are you even aware of the implications of what you've just said?

That people should base their purchases based upon what they think rather than what others do?

I pretty much explicitly stated that.

 

[CitySquirrel]

My favorite part: Yahtzee baiting spiderman fans at the beginning.

Edit:

./palm-through-face

Are you even aware of the implications of what you've just said?

That people should base their purchases based upon what they think rather than what others do?

I pretty much explicitly stated that.

I think the point is that you can't really get enough information about something to form your own opinions about something unless you either obtain information about it. First hand can get expensive with videogames... you want to know if it is worth even getting the first hand information. So, you go to a reviewer.

 

[Draconalis]

Deadpool is in this game?!

Sold!

Yeah but...

Ultimate Deadpool. Not so great.

Wasn't that the terrible one with the glass skull...?

Do not want!

 

[Shut_up_Flanders]

Yahtzee was in top form for this one. The best joke award from Jesus and Yahtzee in the Madonna dominatrix outfit was what put me over the edge.

 

[Darkgoosey666]

first time ive commented on a ZP i think, loved the anime bash and religion joke XD

some fantastic lines there yahtzee but the ending text was awesome, " im more of a cider man"

genius.

 

[RowdyRodimus]

The best part pf Shattered Dimensions is seeing Spider-Ham (who is closer to the real SPidey than that, THING in the comics) at the beginning.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Nolan North as Deadpool? And I thought Baraka-pool sucked >(
Oooooooh! so Yahtzee is gimp AND dominatrix? That's more Kinky than stampeding cattle
...Through the Vatican

Yeah, but the ***** of it all was inventin' the candy gram. They probably won't even give me credit for it!

 

[DarkPanda XIII]

He pretty much summed up the entire thing for me, though he sold me when Deadpool showed up :3. I did want to play the game for the original and the Noir Spidey, mostly due to curiosity and because the Noir character did appear like he was going to be like Batman, Arkham Asylum.

Yay for being right!

 

[ChaosStep]

Not to be a willy and ruin yahtzee complainy complainy moany moany time, but spiderman uses web CARTRIDGES. It didn't come out of him until Sam Raimi got his mits on it.

So shouldn't he have gone on about how he makes these "cartidges"?
Not enough visual puns for that?


Never mind then.

 

[Tweekus]

To be fair, being a prick that won't ever shut up ever is kinda Deadpool's thing.

 

[sarahvait]

poor Spidey, he gets another bad game and he's going to get another bad movie in the future (though 3 wasn't that bad). What we need is a Marvel Zombies game.

Also, North does need to expand his repertoire beyond "annoyingly smug, generically handsome white guy". Closest he got to that was Vashyron in Resonance of Fate where he got smacked by the female lead a lot.

There is such a thing as type-casting in voice over. And like the game or not, Uncharted was pretty popular. You may hate the character, but Nolan North does the Nathan Drake type great. I personally think he's really talented, so it irks me that if he is getting type-cast. Steven Heck was a change of pace in Alpha Protocol, so the man can obviously do other types.

I hope it's not a case of game developers going "Hey, we've got another smuggish white guy! Get Nolan North again, he can do that!" "Yeah, but he also auditioned for this dark, brooding father figure. It was a great audition." "Nah, nah, get him to do the funny one. Come on, haven't you heard Nathan Drake?"

 

[Mikazuki]

Great review,
long time I lol'd that much in one video xD

 

[Mkvenner]

I liked the idea of different types of Spidermen and different game mechanics and was kinda hoping this game would be good. After watching this though I dont know.....

What would be cool though would be a Deadpool game but I dont see that happening because Deedpool is too cool for games!

 

[Woulvain]

Well see i had a bit of a problem with the review due to the fact that Yahtzee has absolutely no knowledge about comics whatsoever apparently.
Batman disregarding Spiderman because he's jumping through dimensions. Does anoyone know what Batman is doing right now?

Jumping through time because he was shot by a giant omega laser (i think thats the name Darkseid gave them)! Sigh...