Oct 13 2008
8 Days To Spider-Man: Web Of Shadows
Spider-Man: Web Of Shadows set out with a lofty goal, make a next-gen Spider-Man game that isn’t completely awful like it’s predecessors Spider-Man 3, and Spider-Man: Friend Or Foe. Already as the videos and gameplay demos have shown, WOS at least seems to be on the right track. Presenting truly next-gen graphics, instead of the ugly PS2 textures sported in the PS3 and Xbox 360 editions of Spider-Man 3. As well as the revolutionary idea to give players complete freedom in dictating Spider-Man’s actions.
Unlike the faux freedom of Spider-Man 2 & 3, WOS promises the ability to destruct essentially everything in the environment. Meaning now you will be able to abuse Spider-Man’s powers like never before, using cars as weapons, busting up storefronts, and terrorizing citizens if you so choose. With this newfound freedom will come reactions from the city driven by how you perform your actions as Spider-Man. Hurl cars all over town and bust up any number of innocent civilians, and your average Joe pedestrian will run from you in terror. Or become Spider-Man and save the city from the villainy afoot, without destroying everything in sight, and the people will praise your presence.
Developer Activision has also expertly crafted the perfect open world scenario for a Spider-Man game. Arch-nemesis Venom has found a way to clone himself using his symbiotic suit. The subsequent symbiotes then form strongholds and take over the city, turning it’s citizens into symbiote zombies. Which then forces S.H.I.E.L.D. to quarantine New York, forcing Spider-Man and a band of heroes to be trapped inside, leaving only themselves to combat the symbiote horde.
Of course all of this is just one big excuse to bring back Spidey’s symbiotic suit, with which Activision promises your strength and fighting combos will improve to ridiculous levels. Combined with the ability to change between the red suit and black suit on the fly means your movements and combat strategies will be incredibly diverse, maximizing the amount of carnage you will be able to create in a fully destructible New York.
In case you wanted to know, the announced secondary characters in the game are as follows:
- Green Goblin
- Electro
- Kingpin
- Luke Cage
- Wolverine
- Black Widow
- Vulture
- Venom
- Black Cat
- Moon Knight
- Rhino
- Nightcrawler
So, if you haven’t done so, get your preorder in. 8 days until you can play it.
