Customer Reviews

Spider-Man 3

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Spider-Man has had a pretty good track record on the GBA over the years. Mysterio's Menace was excellent, and the first two Spider-Man games based on the mega hit films were incredibly good as well. Maybe that's why when you pop Spider-Man 3 for the GBA in you'll be feeling a bit disappointed, especially considering the game was developed by Vicarious Visions, who also brought us the aforementioned games on the GBA as well as the great Tony Hawk GBA games as well. More or less following the plot of the film, you play as the wall crawler and take on hordes of generic looking villains before tackling bosses from the movie in the form of Sandman and Venom, as well as other villains like the Kingpin and Electro. The best feature of the game is that the missions in the game change order depending on what kind of decisions you make in the game, and this also effects bonus abilities as well. And speaking of bonus abilities, Spidey's rage meter is instrumental in unlocking the black alien costume which makes the web-head faster and more powerful. These sequences are where the game shines, but they are few and far between. Not to mention that the same side scrollign aspects we're used to seeing in a licensed GBA game are quite tired by now with no new kind of techniques implemented, but it's still fun to swing around nevertheless. The biggest gripe is in the graphics department. Now I know this is a GBA game and I'm not expecting anything spectacular, but the previous Spider-Man games had better graphics and resolution than this installment. All that aside though, Spider-Man 3 for the GBA is a very solid movie tie-in, and it's definitely worth checking out for GBA owners looking for some new web action. That being said, if you own a DS, check out the DS version instead, which is surprisingly good.

This game has the feel of a quckly produced game that treats handheld games as second class systems. One dimensional graphics and game play. Does not have a 3d feel like lego star wars II. I stopped playing after two or three scenes. I regret buying the game.

the game was new and i spend plenty of time playing with the game with
my son. It's his but you see me playing with it from time to time.