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The Amazing Spider-Man - PlayStation 3

Publisher: Activision  |   SKU: 4612255
Release Date: 6/26/2012  |  
ESRB Rating: T=Teen
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4.3 of 5 4.3 of 5 (12 reviews)
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Ages 13+. Maybe contain violence, suggestive themes, crude humor, minimal blood, simulated gambling, and/or infrequent strong language. Check below for details

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Web-slinging comic book adventure has some violence.

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TEEN
T for Mild Language, Mild Suggestive Themes, Violence


Synopsis

Synopsis
Perched atop this skyscraper, you can see the entire cityscape. Horns, sirens and other sounds of the hustle and bustle of the city can be heard from far below. As people go about their daily business, crime lurks in the shadows, waiting for the opportune moment to pounce. And that's why you're here — to fight back and keep the little guy safe. As you take in the scene, your spidey senses tingle. Without thinking, you leap off the edge and into the air. Halfway into your freefall, you send a stream of web shooting into the air, and it latches onto a building off in the distance. You're web-slinging your way into another day at the office.

In a thrilling story set just after the events of the upcoming movie, The Amazing Spider-Man invites you to suit up as the newly anointed web-slinging superhero as you continue the adventures of Peter Parker. Criminals lurk in all shapes and sizes all over — and under — Manhattan, and it's up to you to keep the city safe in this free-roaming adventure. Use the game's new Web Rush mechanic to perform cool new moves that were never before possible and use real-time navigational and combat choices to fight crime. Swing into battle against all-new versions of classic Spidey villains and original, larger-than-life enemies. Soar through the city on your trusty strands of web and execute spectacular — and signature — acrobatic moves and attacks to overpower the bad guys. Are your spidey senses tingling yet?

Features

  • Swing into New York City for an all-new adventure as your favorite web-slinging superhero
  • Immerse yourself in the captivating story, penned by Hollywood writer Seamus Kevin Fahey, that continues young Peter Parker's adventures following the events of the new film
  • Suit up as the newly anointed Spider-Man, and protect Manhattan from all-new versions of classic villains and larger-than-life original enemies
  • Pull off an impressive array of moves, never before possible, and use real-time navigational and battle choices to fight crime with the game's new Web Rush mechanic
  • Experience the cinematic, adrenaline-pumping excitement of web-slinging through the city as you perform dazzling acrobatic moves and attacks to keep citizens safe and protected
  • Journey all over — and under — Manhattan to take on crime wherever it may occur in this free-roaming adventure

Customer Reviews

The Amazing Spider-Man - PlayStation 3 (11 out of 12)
Great graphics
5
Posted by: from Pearland, TX on 05/12/2013Graphics are great and it was easy for my 5 year old to learn to play it.

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Fun to swing around Manatthatan
4
Posted by: from Stroudsburg on 04/26/2013I had been wanting a good Spidey game for a while. This is definitely worth picking up if you want to experience swinging like Spidey. Some of the action gets old, only having a few superhero moves, but I still like it. And there are plenty of side missions to keep you engaged.
  • Age : 35-44
  • Gender : Male

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Awesome Graphics
5
Posted by: from Watsonville, CA on 04/22/2013I'm not much of a gamer but this game is pretty cool. It keeps me entertained for hours, I forget to eat sometimes.
  • Age : 25-34
  • Gender : Male

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This is a great movie tie-in game
4
Posted by: from VA, USA on 04/19/2013Some spoilers ahead folks! The Amazing Spiderman is freaking fun! The web swinging throughout the city is near accurate with the size of the buildings. The acrobatic moves that Spiderman comes with, and you can obtain later, are fantastic and are as fun to watch as they are to unlock. The extra comics and unlockables are neat to see and it helps you appreciate how much detail the people put into this game. The story beautifully adds to the previous The Amazing Spiderman movie. This, so far, is one of the best movie tie-in games I've ever played. The story does a great job of picking up right where the movie left off and ripping Manhattan, New York, apart. There are multiple crimes and plagues that are threatening the city, and yep, Spiderman is the only one that save them from certain doom. The jumbled and fast paced flow of the main story reminds me of the original Spiderman series and really keeps true to the main concepts of Spiderman. It kinda gave the feeling of “the good guys always wins” and “just keep truckin'.” It even does a great job of building tension with the giant bosses and continued decay of the city, along side reading the cities local tweets that are displayed during the loading screen. Some of the added detail is citizens puke green liquid in the streets to the smog in the city turning colors. This really adds to the atmosphere and is freaking wonderful. There are multiple points of pure dread that over flows the city, and Spiderman's personal life. Some of the characters gradually change while some almost take a complete 180. Like Gwen Stacy comes off as a completely mean, where as in the movie she was more stable and nice. But hey she even mentions losing her Dad recently #see The Amazing Spiderman movie# so that might be some reason to her character change. It also adds considerable depth to Conners and makes him more human then just your average comic book villain, like most comics or shows do. It still plays off the misunderstood scientist, but it showed his gradual grief and dismay to his own selfishness. So he eventually comes to and straightens up to help Spiderman, and Manhattan. It eventually delves into the scientific debate of human evolution and medicine and which way it should go. Even during one of the final Oscorp missions Connners and Smythe are bickering back and forth whether or not people will be more accepting of nanobots or gene therapy in their lives. This is neat because it's a real world plausibility. This is also the main divide, and rivalry, between the two scientists. The only thing that was notably odd about the story was some of the voice acting. Near the end it seemed more like they were just saying lines or whenever there was a word highlighted in the scripted to be emphasized it was over acted. There are multiple side missions that kinda add to the depth of the city, but are distracting and repetitive. There are only so many times you can break up a mugging or stop a car chase in the SAME ways before it gets completely boring. Also lots of the time the bad guys are the exact same or have only small variations that it isn't even noticeable when you're fighting them. There are some fun side missions, but when they give you 10+ between each mission, and many of them are the same kinds of missions, it only adds to the repetition. If you wait long enough in the game one of the unlockables is a icon addition to the map you have that tells you where all the local escaped mental ward patients are and loose comic book pages. This is both a nice feature and a little dumb. Secret collectibles are suppose to be in unknown locations, however since they're 700 comic book pages and more then 20 patients to collect it does help some. So all in all they are just so so. Now don't get me wrong the collectibles add some extra game play time to the game. They also really help build Spiderman and it gives extra XP to unlock more moves or even better armor. But they, like all collectibles, are tedious. Also with games like this they aren't skippable due to how much extra XP they give you. So if you're playing it on hard you'll have to collect them in order to prepare for the next stage, or even the next boss. On another note you'll get your butt handed to you multiple times due to minor flaws and graphical issues while fighting. The controls were completely smooth and easy to grasp. This sometimes makes combat a breeze, but it's frustrating considering you have to have a eye on Spiderman's head to see his spidy-sense go off. This be the notification that you need to hit the counter button, but often the graphics bloom #brightness from natural light# would completely blotch out the indicator. A white indicator on white background isn't really visible. Other times it's a snap second indication. So it feels like some of the pacing was set to Viewtiful Joe, which is super fast timing. The only problem that I saw with the controls is that during some of the open world areas the graphical glitches would interfere with the direction you were sending Spiderman and you couldn't compensate quick enough to correct the problem. The graphics are something strange and sometimes something to be desired. This is strange since the other half the time the graphics are as beautiful as this generation of games can deliver. Like most of the real world is being wowed by movie like quality cut-scenes, like in Tomb Raider. However, this game takes the character models and uses them for the cut-scenes. Its kinda bad considering most character models are only meant to bend a certain way. The cut-scenes try to add to the model that it makes them look awkward, just weird, or even stiff. However sometimes a nice feature comes up where you can control Spiderman's viewpoint with the L3 stick. So if you get board with what they are saying you can look off in the distance or admire the elaborate detail of the room you're in. Other times the graphics don't seem to render correctly and look like they are Playstation 2 graphics. This isn't that bad, but given that the other character models, including some cars, seem stiff, then it's rather bad. The various glitches seem to only occur in the open world environment. There were multiple times where Spiderman would clip through the edges of buildings. Other times he would go to swing, or climb back onto the wall, and he would be stuck in a falling pose and you could spin him in circles and nothing would happen. He literally got stuck in that pose. However the great thing about all of these is that none of them were game crashing bugs. Most, if not all, worked themselves out and I usually don't do DLC reviews, or add them to the main game review, but I thought I should mention these. The DLC won't be worth the money for most people. There is a mega pack DLC, for about $10 now, where you can play as Rhino, Conners, and, as funny as it may seem, Stan Lee. Now it is fun to swing through Manhattan as Stan Lee, but the other mini-games are either terrible or just rehashes of older games like Space Invaders. They really are kinda bland. I wish they made them into story playable add-on's instead of cheap rehashes. So fair warning. For anyone looking to have fun pick up this game. If you decide to go for a 100% game completion then there is well over 20 hours of game play. Also there is enough decent achievements to balance out the annoying ones, like collect all of x-item. The story, as said before, is one of the BEST I've seen in a long time. It is really memorable in my book, but the controls, in open world, repetitive unchallenging side quests, and the ending ruins part of the experience. Wait till it's about $20 or $30 before you pick it up. 7.0/10
  • Age : 25-34
  • Gender : Male

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The Best of Both Worlds
4
Posted by: from none on 04/15/2013Combines the best aspects of Beenox's Spider-man games with the open world of previous games. Would reccomend.
  • Age : 25-34
  • Gender : Male

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good game
4
Posted by: from Menifee, CA on 01/20/2013Bought this for my 8 year old son for Christmas. He loves it. He's almost done with the game.
  • Age : 45-54
  • Gender : Female

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Love This Game!
5
Posted by: from Cumming on 01/05/2013I personally love this game, and have been hooked on it ever since I got it for Christmas! It is a fun and challenging game that contains great graphics and fun free roam. The story of this game takes place right after the movie "The Amazing Spiderman", and will probably start the next movie. Also, the characters voices are done very well. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to feel like Spiderman swinging around Manhattan.
  • Age : < 18
  • Gender : Male

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The story was good to continue the recent movie
5
Posted by: from Florida on 08/10/2012my son likes graphics and the story and to easy to use

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Excellent Spiderman Installment
5
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Best Spiderman game to date, but can be better!
4
Posted by: from NYC on 07/26/2012I started off playing this game like wow this new spidey game is awesome. When i finally completed it i was left expecting more and wanting more. Beenox stepped up with there production on this one but didn't quite learn much from another successful comic book rival game. Batman: Arkim City was tailor made to exploit Batman's true potential from the gamers standpoint, in particular this makes The Amazing Spiderman look like a carbon copy of it except they where missing half the blueprints to make a truely complete Spidey game being worthy of such praise. I'm a true Spiderman Fan and trust me if this is the best Beenox can do, well than they need to hand this one over to Rocksteady to show them how it's done. Spiderman deserves better and so do we!

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