Customer Reviews

Spider-Man 3

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

but since i am.. i'm giving it 4.

The good:
-The game looks great and especially when your webslinging through NY at night time.
-They've added a God of War kick to it. You're now involved in the cinematic action scenes. I think i'm about half way through and the extra moves that can be unlocked is kinda cool.
-You can now walk inside some buildings for certain missions.
-Added different missions
( disarming bombs, taking pictures, taking MJ for web slinging field trip )

The bad:
-Even though the game looks great, there are alot of graphic bugs.
( alot of seaming and clipping )
-Collision problems
( Characters getting pushed into walls, enemies get stuck )
-A.I. needs help.
(enemies will run away.. are simply just stare at you)
-I wish they would've implented a good soundtrack.
-Not sure about this complaint of mine, but i wish or hope.. that i'll be able to play a villian when i beat the game. I heard you can play the goblin... but.. i'd rather play sandman or venom.

Overall, its a good game. If your a spidey fan, its a great game. it's always fun to swing around the city.

Spider-man 3 does its movie counterpart absolutely no justice in this poorly, and lazily done game. This does not seem much better than Spider-man 2 for the PS2. There is a few new additions in there. Such as a slightly improved combat system, a fresh coat of paint, and a little bit of reflection on some surfaces. The combat system seems terribly incomplete, almost no transition between moves, no fluidity at all, it just felt rushed.



Bosses and some missions felt unnecessarily frustrating, unable to see some enemies, while they would attack what you were trying to protect. I also had several problems with mission "coins" disappearing. Stupidly powerful enemies that stopped taking damage after you had given them an unrelenting beating for nearly 10 minutes, knocking them over countless times.



The "God of War"-esque button system is really innovative, and absurdly complicated. God of War normally limited its buttons to just the face buttons. This one throws face, control stick movements and R1,R2, L1, L2 at incredibly inept time, so unless you are really quick, some give you less than a second to complete the combination. Luckily when you mess up a combination, you are never put back at the "start of the level" or anything, it just repeats and unlike God of War, it will use the same sequence you just failed, however, fail one against a boss character, he can do up to 25% damage to you, 4 failures and you are toast, or really close to it. Control could have had more attention paid to it. The swinging is cool, but run into a bulding and the camera will sometimes freak and get stuck somewhere momentarily, thats not a terrible detriment to gameplay, its when the camera gets stuck somewhere in a fight and you swinging at nothing you can see, thats frustrating.



Bruce Campbell makes his return as the Narrator, though he really gives you nothing new for this game aside from the "Matrix-Style" bullet time. If you have played Spider-man 2, dont expect too much new here. Like I said a fresh coat of paint.



This does not exactly live up to the free roaming sandbox gameplay. Framerate tends to struggle in closed areas, people are not very well detailed at all, they all look like scared puppy dogs, while you are very well designed, and the highest amount of detail is paid to Spidey and the bosses.



With that said this game does have its shiny points. Physics are somewhat used here, the sun reflects off windows realistically, at night you can go to buildings and look inside, even though they may be a cheap-o JPEG sitting behind a window, detail was paid to it a little. Spidey looks incredible, up close you can really see the detail in the suit, and black suit spidey is a crazy blast to play. However, *(SPOILER)*





when you get towards the end, and you have to fight Venom and Sandman, Venom is not really a problem, as long as you keep him stunned. Sandman is a pain in the glutes when you take over as New Goblin, the sixaxis control is frustrating. Laying down while playing this part is almost impossible. And judging the bombs is all hands down frustrating for a casual gamer such as myself.



Final thought:

If time and attention were paid to this game it could truly have been incredible. I would have waited another 6 months to a year for a truly great Spiderman game rather than 3 mediocre ones. This game is fun, and if you are a Spidey-freak, definitley dont pass this one up. If you understand the history of film-game franchises give this one a rent. Other than that, pass this one by. Or pick up Rainbow six, or even the Darkness.

If you've never played the second Spider-man game than this one will work nicely with you. I on the other hand find it very much the same as Spider-man 2. Which is displeasing to me. They didn't really make the city larger. Theres no reason the city has to be the same size. On PS3 they could make the city 5 times larger than on PS2 because of the amount of space the Blue-Ray disc allow. Although they did add an underground subway system that doesn't need to stop and load. The city does look much better now, but it's just not enough. Every thing is the same with Spider-man even with the black suit. On the other hand some of the character models look like another said bug eyed or worse thing. They didn't take their time with this game it was rushed by he look at it. I was hoping they would bring back a move or tool from the first Spider-man game in which you could point and shoot yourself in the direction you want like a gun using target cross hairs.

I dislike that they have introduced two versions of the game on the PS3. It has confused a lot of people and made others mad because they cannot be the New Goblin.

To me this is the same repetitive event that happen from the first Spider-man to second game. When Spider-man the movie/game was made it was mostly inside fighting and in the air combat with the annoying "get near the ground and die" thing. Also it had many arcade inside Training system type things to do. The second one had a larger city you could walk around in minus some of the sub games. Although it did have a mini arcade with mini games. The differences are great and the point is that from this first Spiderman PS3 game to the next may be even more tremendous because they didn't really take anything out to add more of something else in for the third. So when they get it together and think more plus work harder there will be a great Spider-man 4. I know they didn't work very hard on this third one. The first two was worked on more. They just copy and pasted from the second game. On this Spider-man 3D modelers did more work, animators did less work, and all the rest was copied and it was still all together was less than the first two as far as actual labor. I know this because of the end result.

The PS3's first Spider-man game is under it's true potential.

Lastly it's just very boring to me and for 60 USD it wasn't worth the money. If it was at most 15 USD it would be alright.

I was disappointed and cannot gather how fun this game is considering it could be better. I give it low points based on the earlier work. Someone who hasn't ever played the past games might think more highly of it.

This game just has a bunch of extremely repetitive missions, almost all involving beat people up with your not very interesting combos. The visuals are clean but the objects depicted are boring and again repetitive. THe city doesn;t have much character, which was okay on SM2 back on PS2 but the standards are much higher and the rest of the game isn't up to task. I never finished the game, near the end , I came to a mission that was just ridiculously difficult but not challenging in a fun way, just frustrating and overwhelming.
THe voice acting is bad and the story watered down. I would rather they get voice actors who are into what they're doing rather than getting contractually obligated actors from the movie.

this game is great but it takes a very long time to get the black suit i have it now, and again great game!

Okay, so its no inFAMOUS, but Spider-Man 3 is a good game, everybody is complaining about "screen tears" and "lag" and "glitches", I have never expirienced screen tears, there is some glitches, while I have only gotten 2 glitches, and like 3 lags.

Gameplay: 8/10
Graphics: 8/10
Story: 5/10
Characters: 3/10
Combat: 9/10
Sound: 10/10

If you don't have a Ps2, GameCube, or Regular Xbox,and can't get Spider-Man 2 the videogame, then this is your alternative, its good but no where near as good as Spider-Man 2.

Spider-Man 3 doesn't really improve much of anything from the second game, which is both good and bad. The second game didn't need much to improve on in the first place, but it still wasn't perfect. Like its predecessor, Spider-Man 3 lets you control the titular superhero in a fully explorable New York City, which looks incredible with PS3 graphics. From the sunlight reflecting off the many skyskrapers to the well made character models, this game is certainly much better looking than the ones that came before it. Certain missions also let you explore the sewers and subways of New York, which are appropriately gritty and dirty. Webswinging isn't quite as exciting as it was before (it appears "slower" somehow), but it's easier to execute. You choose when to release the webline and with the left analog stick you choose which way you want to swing. Unfortunately the game's combat has taken a turn for the worse. It no longer flows as well as it did in Spider-Man 2, since now you rely more on beating up your enemies through button mashing. Instead of giving you a moderate number of combos that all have very specific uses in certain situations, this game gives you a large number of overlycomplicated combos that all involve you pressing the light and heavy attack buttons between 4 to 7 times for each combo. You'll find yourself pulling off some spectacular moves on large groups of enemies purely by accident and then when you try to pull off the same move again, you'll be hard pressed to remember exactly which combination of buttons you used to do it in the first place. The combo list doesn't really help much either since the combos don't come with short descriptions of what they entail, instead they are all given random names straight out of a Dragonball Z game like "Dragon Fist" and "Cannonball Punch". One of the shoulder buttons slows down the action (like bullet-time) through use of a new form of Spider Reflexes that lets you automatically dodge enemy attacks, but knowing when to let go of this button to attack takes getting used to; holding the button down for too long will drain the accompanying meter and leave you getting pummeled by enemies if you're careless. As stated earlier, the combat in this game just doesn't flow at all like it did in the previous game.

The number of enemies has greatly increased, which is a plus. You'll fight several groups of regular enemies with light and heavy minions in each group. The number of classic Spidey villains has increased as well. You'll battle Scorpion, Rhino, the Lizard, Kingpin, and Kraven the Hunter, as well as movie villains New Goblin, Sandman, and Venom. A lot of the boss battles are pretty fun, but some are quite repetitive and dragged out. The Kingpin battle is the worst, since the game forces you to battle him solely through counter attacks: you wait for him to throw a punch and you use Spider-Reflexes to dodge and then attack him... attacking him directly has him block and then smack you in the face. A big time gameplay flaw. For a good chunk of the game, like in the movie, you don the black symbiote suit and use it to defeat many enemies, but the suit doesn't really mix things up very much. Aside from Rage Mode which allows you to use some of Spidey's more powerful super attacks more often and increases Spidey's overall attack power for a limited time, the black suit feels very much the same as the classic red and blue suit. One other thing the game adds is the use of quick time events in scripted scenarios to fight enemies, escape exploding buildings, save civilians, and so on. While some of the QTEs are cool and entertaining, most are not executed very well and require a lot of retries through trial and error to complete, especially the ones in the final battle. You not only have to be prepared to press one of the four face buttons, but you also have to be prepared to press the shoulder buttons and move the analog sticks in any of four possible directions. Also, you're given only about half a second to press the appropriate button when the prompts appear (a full second if the game is feeling generous). Still, the game offers more variety with the random crimes that occur throughout the city when you're swinging around killing time, and it also has a large number of combat, racing, and bomb disarming challenges. This, in addition to the extra story missions the game throws at you, will keep you quite busy, and the combat does get better as you become accustomed to it. I actually give this game a 3.5, but since that isn't possible, I gave the game 4 stars in terms of overall rating. Spider-Man 2 is better overall, but Spider-Man 3 is still a fun game. Fans should at least rent it.

I find this game a little to fast for me, I was used to Spiderman 2 and Spidy 3 is a good push to add more content and make more plot points, as well as explore New York, which I have always loved freeroam enviroments. Still a little to fast, the character is harder to control and get him to do what you want when you want him too, it takes a bit of luck off the start but overall a good game. Personally, you might as well (unless you're a collector like myself) go ahead and skip this one and get Web of Shadows, just as much fun and overall a better story in my book. Still the game is better than the movie (I'm sorry to say).
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While this game has gotten some bad reviews because it's not a big step up from Spider-Man 2, it's still the best Spider-Man game so far (Spider-Man: We of Shadows looks like it'll take the lead when it comes out in a few weeks). It's a ton of fun to play and the better part is swinging across the city like with Spider-Man 2 and Ultimate Spider-Msn. However with the black suit and better PS3 graphics Spider-Man 3 is superior to the other games. Unfortunately the problems such as not enough variety of missions hasn't been solved so it gets to be a little repetitive after a while, but it's still fun. Plus whenever you get bored from missions just swing around the city and have a good time! It's a fun game that any gamer will love[...]

This game doesn't keep you interested in the plot line at all. It is extremely boring and I'm saddened at how poor it was. The only reason I give it a 2 overall is because the map is big and well-detailed.