The Amazing Spider-Man 2

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  1. Ragnamaxima
    May 24, 2016
    4
    I love Spider man, i really do, but this game is just bad. For starters the combat is way too straightforward and much more limited than the Arkham series, secondly we have the terrible story which never knows wich plot to develop properly. And then we have all of the potentially great ideas wasted, for example the hero/menace mechanic, choosing optional topics of conversation and theI love Spider man, i really do, but this game is just bad. For starters the combat is way too straightforward and much more limited than the Arkham series, secondly we have the terrible story which never knows wich plot to develop properly. And then we have all of the potentially great ideas wasted, for example the hero/menace mechanic, choosing optional topics of conversation and the upgrade system. The bosses are very simple and quite boring and the hub world is almost completely unnecessary. But despite of all of this, i did find some positives: the web swinging is great and probably the best so far, spiderman is very acrobatic which makes the web swinging even more fun, and lastly i love that you can view comics in a comic book store owned by Stan Lee. But overall, sadly this game is not good, and only the biggest fans of spiderman will find it enjoyable, quite disappointing indeed.… Expand
  2. Hitistaken
    Dec 18, 2020
    1
    Oyun gerçekten berbat buglarla dolu bir oyun grafikler güzel değıl dövüş hissiyatını iyi veremiyor 2008 yılında çıkan web of shadows bile daha iyi SPİDER MAN WEB OF SHADOWS 2008 DE ÇIKTI OYUNU SAKIN İNDİRMEYİN!
  3. Bleemak
    May 1, 2014
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Don't get me wrong. I'm huge Spider-Man fan, I think he's greatest hero there is. And it sucks so much that this game isn't so good I hoped it would be. It's bad. Don't believe people saying it's 10/10. It's not. Seriously.

    PC version has a lot of glitches, graphic bugs, frame rates and whatnot. Sometimes I cannot finish side mission, since the building where I have to save humans is gone. Game looks pretty bad to be next-gen title. And this new Hero or Menace thing is hard, if you skip one of those 10 missions in map, you suddenly became Menace. And I don't want to save citizens in peril during story missions, or when I'm going to somewhere. And every time you finish one, you get annoying Daily Bugle news.

    The worst aspect of this game is that it tries so hard to be like Arkham games. And we have Spider-Man games that aren't and are still good (USM, SMSD, SM2). We have Spider-Sense that's basically detective vision except you don't scan anything. But it's blurry and I didn't want to use it. But I had to. We also have predator missions returning and that's not good neither. Enemy spot you through walls and on ceiling even though they don't watch in there.

    Combat sucks. You smash attack button until you have to counter. And it's hard. Even though I press counter button, it doesn't work and enemies hit me. And I'm very good in ASM 1 and Arkham games. And there's no variations. Signature moves are the same. And enemies have super speed and strength and everything. It's very frustating, since it doesn't have any variation.

    Web-slinging is fun, when it's works. But too often Spidey goes inside building or suddenly changes to rotation where I'm going. And the buggy came doesn't make it better. I didn't want to wall-crawl, because camera ruins it. And since web-slinging doesn't work, I just want to walk, which is very slow.

    Story is just filled with different villains. And there are too much of them. You start with Uncle Ben's killer and 15 minutes later, he's dead, you face Shocker, 15 minutes later he's beaten and it goes on.

    Also, Spidey's new voice actor sucks. He tries to be funny, but isn't. And he doesn't sound like Spider-Man, at all. We had great voice actors in the past

    Overall, game sucks and is huge letdown. And I didn't want it to be. ASM wasn't great, but it was okay and I thought Beenox learned it's mistakes. But it didn't.

    Last good Spider-Man game was Shattered Dimensions. It had good combat, voice-acting and humor. What it didn't have was free-roaming and interesting story. I bought this game with 16 € and I'm still regretting it. If you want Spidey game with bad voice-acting, humor, combat, mediocre web-slinging, bad story and overall Arkham-clone this is it.

    What we need is next-gen only Spider-Man game, with SMSD's combat and voice-actors. Maybe with 4 different New Yorks to explore?    … Expand
  4. lolskate32
    May 2, 2014
    3
    The swinging feels worthless becuse web rush feels faster, the hero or menace system doesn't have a meaning to exist becuse if your a menace than your making the game harder then it needs to be so you will always be the hero but to reach hero you have to do side missions that HAVE UNSKIPABLE CUTSCENES that show the same thing over and over and over with the same voice saying the same stuffThe swinging feels worthless becuse web rush feels faster, the hero or menace system doesn't have a meaning to exist becuse if your a menace than your making the game harder then it needs to be so you will always be the hero but to reach hero you have to do side missions that HAVE UNSKIPABLE CUTSCENES that show the same thing over and over and over with the same voice saying the same stuff everytime it gets tediuos doing the same stuff multiple times before reaching level 3 hero oh and I might I add the rank can fall randomly becuse you are not at 2 locations at the same time you can complete one side quest gain some points and then lose the amount for not doing the other quest that is in the other side of Manhattan. The gameplay is rather redundent and formulaic go there, beat up bad guys, fight a boss that even a monkey can beat (they are patheticly easy), repeat. Stealth sometimes feels impossible becuse of the AI being inconsistent sometimes the enemys will see you on the roof at complete night or they wont notice you when your standing behind a pole that doesnt even hide spidys body. The other problem for stealth is the controls, it can say that you can repeal from the roof but what spidey does is he jumps down to the floor getting instantly spotted. Fighting is like in Batman Arkham Asylum/City but less responsive you cant switch from an attack instantly to a counter becuse of a delay or downright unresponsiveness of the controls. Tho the game can be fun for the first hour or two but everything after that becomes pointless becuse fighting crime is tedious like I mentioned, colleting comics are only for the completionist or the Marvel fans and exploring Manhattan is pointless when there is nothing to do in the whole city after the main missions. The costumes are a cool idea, but I didint notice a diffrence from being original Spider-man, 2012 Spider-man, Vigilante Spider-man or any other costume it says that they give buffs but they dont seem to do a diffrence. Just stay away from this… Expand
  5. Marsonra
    Jul 17, 2014
    4
    The Amazing Spider-Man 2. I realize this review might be coming a little late. After all, I reviewed two other Spider-Man games a while ago, including this game's prequel. I was anxious to play this game being the die-hard Spider-Man fanboy that I am. I would pretty much buy anything that has his name plastered on it. So, does this game measure up to the other two Spider-Man gamesThe Amazing Spider-Man 2. I realize this review might be coming a little late. After all, I reviewed two other Spider-Man games a while ago, including this game's prequel. I was anxious to play this game being the die-hard Spider-Man fanboy that I am. I would pretty much buy anything that has his name plastered on it. So, does this game measure up to the other two Spider-Man games that I reviewed, or is this Spider-Man's worst game yet? Let's find out. The gameplay of the original game was really repetitive. It was still fun however. Here the gameplay is much more repetitive, and much less fun. This is sad because this game follows much the same gameplay style as the last game. You control Spider-Man as he fights criminals and super-villains throughout the city of Manhattan. Along with that there are also story missions you have to complete as the game goes on. The gameplay is more redundant this time around, as there are now more random crimes that Spider-Man has to stop. This time however, unlike the last game, these crimes don't disappear forever once you do them. They do disappear, however, they reappear later on. At first I thought I would like this, as I remember crimes appearing randomly in Spider-Man 2 the game for the Nintendo Gamecube. While that was fun, those crimes were completely optional (provided that you didn't need to do them to progress through the story). However, here I just found them annoying. For one thing, in this game, there is now a penalty for not stopping these crimes in time, through the game's poorly implemented hero or menace system. I was expecting something cool like an alternate ending for the game, like in Spider-Man Web of Shadows. However, it ultimately results in "If Spider-Man doesn't stop these crimes, then the Police will stop Spider-Man". It basically means if you leave crimes alone for long enough, it will disappear, and the people of New York will hate you for letting the criminals get away. This just got annoying. Also, there is always a news report when you stop a crime, which can take your time away from this game's action. This makes the game boring, and less fun. None of this is to say that the game isn't fun at all. It can be fun just to beat people up as Spider-Man. There are also really fun stealth missions where you have to take out enemies who are trying to stop you from getting to an alternate costume. If this was the entire game, I think I would have enjoyed it a little bit more. Oh, and yes there are alternate costumes and other unlockables in this game which can extend your playtime a bit. The alternate costumes are better in this game than they are in the last game, as they don't completely break the game when you unlock them. They're supposed to provide you with boosts depending on the costume you use. However, because the gameplay is so redundant I barely noticed any difference regardless of what costume I used. Oh, and the gameplay is also way too easy. In the end, the gameplay of this game could have been amazing, but due to easiness and redundancy, the gameplay falls into mediocrity. As for the graphics, I think they look good...back in 2006. This game also has really mediocre outdated graphics. This game came out a year after Grand Theft Auto V, my new favorite video game of all time, which had fantastic graphics that really showed off what graphics technology of today is capable of. Also, this game's lighting makes the graphics look even more dreadful than they already are. While I'd say this game's graphics are outdated, they are still pretty mediocre at best. As for the story, words cannot describe how disappointed I am with this game's story. It is absolutely terrible, displaying pretty much everything bad about video game story lines. The entire story is pretty much "Oh no bad guys are trying to take over the city, but of course Spider-Man is here, so everything will be fine". There are also Peter Parker levels that I sort of enjoyed. They still couldn't save the story from being a travesty however. Overall, I will admit, I actually enjoyed this game at first. However, that was because I am a giant Spider-Man fan, and I was willing to let that blind me to how boring the game really is. That's exactly who I'd say this game would appeal to: just the die hard Spider-Man fanboys, and no one else. Everyone else should just play Spider-Man 2 the game or Ultimate Spider-Man for the Gamecube instead. They are both much better games. Or heck, just don't play a Spider-Man game at all. Instead, play Batman Arkham if you want an excellent superhero game. Just stay away from Arkham Origins!
    Gameplay: 5/10
    Graphics: 4/10
    Story: 3/10
    Overall: 4/10    … Expand
  6. plotlesviolence
    May 3, 2014
    2
    The 2004 Spiderman 2 for the Playstation 2 and Gamecube had the best movement system for getting around an open world of any game ever (counting the fast-running of Saints Row 4, the glide/hookshot of Batman:Arkham City, the high jump/wallrunning of the Hulk/Prototype series). All they had to do to make a great sequel would be to base more, better missions around that movement scheme. ItThe 2004 Spiderman 2 for the Playstation 2 and Gamecube had the best movement system for getting around an open world of any game ever (counting the fast-running of Saints Row 4, the glide/hookshot of Batman:Arkham City, the high jump/wallrunning of the Hulk/Prototype series). All they had to do to make a great sequel would be to base more, better missions around that movement scheme. It is pathetic that in 10 years no other Spiderman game has come close. I got excited for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 because I had seen videos of them "improving" the web-swinging (i.e., restoring it to S2). But the end result is dissapointing, a game that is worse than the 10-year-old S2 on almost every level. In case anyone with the authority to make a Spiderman videogame is reading, I'll explain why.
    Most of the problem comes from the way they have simplified everything to make it easier. For example, in TASM2, you don't die or take damage from high falls (unlike S2); In S2, it was easy to get slowed down unless you timed everything properly, which made it fun to try and race across the city; since there are no consequences (not evern slowing down) for swinging poorly in TASM2, it's not fun. The wall-running is accomplished by continuing to hold the web swing button (in S2, you had to consciously let go of the web line and press the "wall cling" plus "run" buttons); it's how the Assassin's Creed system of auto-jumping to make parkour easier has actually made its platforming much less fun than the Mario64 system of actually pressing a jump button. And speaking of, you can no longer jump in between web swings, or wall-jump back and forth between buildings in TASM2. They took out (or failed to code) all the options of S2 that made you feel in control.
    Also, the physics in TASM2 feel wrong, like you're moving at a constant speed. The physics of S2 were alot sharper, like you were a weight at the end of a pendulum, moving with real angular acceleration.
    The one improvement of TASM2 in web-swinging is that there's a separate shoulder button for left and right web strands, which does work better than having the one web-swing button of S2. But that one improvement does not compensate for everything they took out.
    The combat of TASM2 is much worse than S2, and it wasn't that great in S2. TASM2's combat is a copy of the Batman:Arkham Series' (or any recent Ubisoft game), minus the near-perfect "feel" that only comes with repeat playtesting, minus the different kinds of enemies that have to be approached differently, minus anything new at all in any way. S2 had a better system: instead of a "counter" button, there was a "dodge" button, that you then followed up with different options (attack or web-grab). S2 also let you web-grab, hold, and throw enemies at each other, which was pretty fun in a "Minority-Report-Everybody-Runs more-of-a-toy-than-a-game" kind of way. My main gripe in S2 was that enemies would randomly block your web-grab attempts without visual indicators of when you could and couldn't grab an enemy. In TASM2 your only option besides "punch" and "counter" is a web-shot attack; there's no way to grab enemies outside of an automated pre-animated finisher. Again, S2 wins out over TASM2 in terms of combat.
    The stealth is functional but uninteresting. Enemy AI is as simplistic as it can be without being broken.
    The segments where you play as Peter Parker are pointless, boring, and unskippable. I can't imagine how they managed to publish TASM2 without anyone pointing out how much better all of those bits would have worked as (SHORT) cutscenes instead. Yes, S2 had Peter Parker segments, but they lasted like 5-10 seconds, and even then they felt pointless.
    The graphics of TASM2 are average (so, better than S2), and the animations are better, but the characters no longer have rag-doll-physics; game creators, take note: physics always, always, always make the game look better in motion than just having more raw polygons or high-res textures. So even in terms of looks, the 10-year-old S2 still wins out over TASM2.
    S2 was not perfect. There was alot more S2 could have done with missions to take advantage of the movement system (i.e. actual character chases with AI instead of just get-to-the-checkpoint-in-time), the submissions got repetitive, the combat was a little simplistic and the plot was insipid. TASM2 has fixed none of these problems and actually (by comparison) made the web-swinging and combat much, much worse.
    TASM2 is not average. A higher-resolution verion of S2 without other improvements would be "average," i.e., the least-they-could-do. TASM is just a major dissapointment. It doesn't matter if it's an improvement over TASM1's web-swinging, this is just not acceptable.
    And incidentally, the metacritic-tampering (perfect ratings posted by people who created their accounts the day of release, writing in obvious marketing language?) was pathetic on every level, though it didn't influence my score.    … Expand
  7. JosTheReal
    May 23, 2014
    4
    I really liked the Spider-man games, but sadly this isn't a game i'm happy with. Thanks to the unstable framerate this game is really hard to play. Doesn't matter on which settings I play, it just doesn't get any better.

    I know the framerate issues isn't a problem with my PC (Maybe some unsupported hardware), but I can play other good looking games like Battlefield 4 on normal settings    I really liked the Spider-man games, but sadly this isn't a game i'm happy with. Thanks to the unstable framerate this game is really hard to play. Doesn't matter on which settings I play, it just doesn't get any better.

    I know the framerate issues isn't a problem with my PC (Maybe some unsupported hardware), but I can play other good looking games like Battlefield 4 on normal settings with 60fps, so I ask myself why not The Amazing Spider-man 2 on very low. Even on high the game doesn't really look much better than The Amazing Spider-man 1 and that game ran fine on my system.

    The controls aren't really good, but that could be because of the low FPS, or they're just really bad.    … Expand
  8. MadJaples
    May 2, 2014
    2
    I already supplied a relatively in-depth analysis of this game, but it's simply no good.

    Everything was relatively acceptable minus the temperamental controls, the somewhat shoddy animation work with characters when speaking....but this stupid business with the Task Force and the "Hero" meter, is simply not acceptable. If you get this game, and I seriously pray you don't, you will    I already supplied a relatively in-depth analysis of this game, but it's simply no good.

    Everything was relatively acceptable minus the temperamental controls, the somewhat shoddy animation work with characters when speaking....but this stupid business with the Task Force and the "Hero" meter, is simply not acceptable.

    If you get this game, and I seriously pray you don't, you will find that if that Hero meter points to anything close to the first red bar, you will get hounded constantly by Task Force machines whilst trying to swing around NYC. I have never in my life played such a terribly unenjoyable "open-city" game - and this really does the Spider-man franchise NO favours whatsoever.    … Expand
  9. GoferksX
    Jan 24, 2020
    2
    This Game is Crap maybe there's some good things but you need to buy them but this game was taken down on steam when you going to lauch first time this game it's going to be in russian beacose you can't but it of steam only on sites with codes also it's going to be verry laggy and it will be unplayable also some sactions are very unfair don't buy it get other one for other consoles/pcs
  10. Sanja0k
    Aug 13, 2020
    3
    Скучная боевая система, скучные и однотипные сайд квесты. Ужасная русская озвучка в перемешку с очень не смешными шуточками делает своё дело и вызывает отвратительное впечатление. Я пошёл эту игру полностью когда мне было 11 лет, это было в 2015, но сейчас в это играть невозможноСкучная боевая система, скучные и однотипные сайд квесты. Ужасная русская озвучка в перемешку с очень не смешными шуточками делает своё дело и вызывает отвратительное впечатление. Я пошёл эту игру полностью когда мне было 11 лет, это было в 2015, но сейчас в это играть невозможно
  11. fefeko
    Dec 23, 2022
    0
    The game is really horrible, the game is full of bugs, the graphics are not good, it gives the feeling of repetitive and very easy combat, being difficult to die and very repetitive
  12. arllda
    Feb 4, 2023
    2
    this game is very special for me when I was a kid I watched the videos of this game I would love to play but I didn't have a pc or console to play my family didn't have money to buy them now I think the game is a disgrace but it will always be special for me

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  1. Riot Pixels
    Jul 9, 2014
    53
    The Amazing Spider-Man 2 reminds of a time when ‘based on a movie’ was the quickest way to describe and berate a game in the same sentence.
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  2. Multiplayer.it
    May 22, 2014
    65
    The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is a decent sandbox-based action game, with plenty of missions, nice ideas and different situations to deal with, but it still lacks the polishing and the direction needed to be a great tie-in, like the Batman games.
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  3. PC Gamer
    May 8, 2014
    55
    Not necessarily a bad superhero game, just one we’ve seen countless times before. The web-swinging, goon-bashing, crime-fighting fundamentals simply aren't fun.
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