A super waste of time.
First of all the graphics, this is the new generation (I refrain from saying "Next Gen" because how can it be "next" when we have had the consoles released?) And I was truly expecting more from this game, if you have played Spider Man 2 on PS2 you will be a bit surprised to see the same old rehashed graphics with a few new additions. But at the end of the day, graphics are not everything so we can move on.
Game play, for the most part, this is the strongest aspect of the game (and really should be in any game) The swinging mechanics feel great although if you've played Spiderman 2 you could be forgiven for being a little bored of them quickly as it essentially is the same. The fighting is a total let down because of a few things, presented lovingly in bullet notes.
* There are 3 classes of enemies within this game, Grunts, Elites (my terminology) and Bosses. Grunts are easy to dispatch, unless there are a large number of them or they start pulling out guns and then it get all kinds of crazy, Elites appear often with grunts and are one of the most frustrating things I have ever experience in my time playing videogames (Over a Decade) You cannot hit them with regular attacks, instead you are forced to wait for them to attack you, then slow down time, and finally counter attack. Given their stupidly long life bars this can take a while and really drags the game down. If there are grunts on screen as well you might as well deal with them first or just repeatedly get beaten in the back until you die (which takes about 6 hits... don't even get me started). Finally we reach bosses, now I hear you cry... bosses are supposed to be hard! yeah but not this hard. You basically have the same procedure to follow as with Elites except that even when you dodge there attacks, a lot of the time you still get hurt they can also usually dispatch you within 5 or 6 moves while one of the early bosses took over a 70 hit combo from me and still had way over half his life left... fair? I think not. All of this difficulty could be put down to it being "challenging" but when you remember this is a kids game, with a rating of 12 and a target audience of probably younger it just looks stupid. The Camera won’t make these long, boring, thumb numbing and un-enjoyable fights any easier either as it does whatever it likes, whenever it likes... including staring at spideys ass as you try to fend off another round of grunts and elites. Over all this game could have been so much more and they have destroyed all the good work they had done in Spiderman 2 in search of some quick and easy cash. Shame on you Treyarch.