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User Rating: 8.7 | Spider-Man 3 X360
By Hybrid3713 | Review Date:
Let's just start out with a few of the issues that I had with the Gamespot review. From their perspective it seemed that the game was just a remake from last year, with new bosses, etc. At first I understood what they meant, but some of the problems i have to address.

1. Framerate glitches only happened in one scene during my play (yes i have beaten the game). That was when there are 5 or 6 Dragon Tails and they have a mech. It fires rockets at you and it slowed to like 15 fps for 2 or 3 seconds, but that is one bit.

2. Dialogue is exellent, with the exeption of a few cheesetastic lines, like the one at the end of the Apocolypse story line (believe me it's stupid).

3. Fighting doesn't seem all that monatonous to me. I still wish there were dynanic bodies, like in the second game and how they were showing it in the demoes. i wanted to hang guys by all four limbs!

Review:

Gameplay: For the most part gameplay is right on. Fighting and Swinging both work, though if you say that you buy the game to fight the various bosses, that is total BS. Camera Glitches on walls and some issues with collision detection that weren't there in SM2 (why can my webs go through walls again?) keep it from a 10. Verdict: 9

Graphics: Disapointing, but you can't blame the team. They have to make somewhere around a scale 3 cubic miles of programming. However it is the next generation and some things can't be taken lightly. MaryJane's hair should have been floppsy, not like stone. Bad but not terrible.
Verdict: 7

Sound: By far one of the coolest things that I didn't expect was above average sound. Like the doppler effect type of enhancement that you heard when you boosted or were just going fast in general. Explosions and all sound great, better in 5.1, but still great in general. Verdict: 10

Value: You know i have to say 10 here. If you try everything, and if you are an achievement hunter like i am, you will be swinging in NYC for at least 40 hours, and probably a lot more. Verdict: 10

Tilt: Gotta hand it to these guys. They knew they had to usher in the Next Generation of Spiderman, and although it wasn't their best, they still put on a show. A- for good effort. Verdict: 9

At the end of the day, to say that this is better than SM2 with only an 8.7 seems strange. It's better, but because it is somewhat recycled doesn't get my A of ultimate approval, but is still a great game and should be picked up.

Final Score: 8.7

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