Product Description

Spider-Man is back on your console! For his third adventure our beloved super hero must use his dark side to defeat villains Venom and Sandman.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1109 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Released on: 2007-05-04
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

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There cannot be a Spidey fan alive that hasn’t seen the stunning movie trailer for the new film, but rather less is known about the accompanying game. It will feature a free roaming environment similar to the previous games though, which is no surprise considering how popular they are and how most subsequent superhero games have reused the same concept. It’s also known that almost the entire movie cast will be lending their vocal talents to the game, including Tobey Mcguire, Kirsten Dunst, Thomas Haden Church, James Franco, Topher Grace and Bryce Dallas Howard. The main villains of the game will, like the movie, be Sandman, Venom and the new Green Goblin. However several other minor Spider-Man villains will also appear from the comics, including Shriek and the mysterious Dragon Boss. More information will undoubtedly show up as the movie’s release date grow closer but a teaser trailer of the in-game graphics for Spidey himself suggest that this will be one of the most impressive next gen movies license so far.
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Manufacturer's Description
Based on Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia Pictures' feature film of the same name, Spider-Man 3 allows players to experience the actions of heroic red-suited Spider-Man and, for the first time ever, his darker, more mysterious black-suited persona. Set in a larger, dynamic, free-roaming New York City, the game gives players the freedom to choose their own gameplay experience through multiple movie-based and original storylines, fully integrated city missions and performance rewards including improved speed, combat manoeuvres and agility. In Spider-Man 3, players draw upon Spider-Man's completely revamped combat abilities as they protect the city and defeat nemeses using expanded aerial fighting, finishing moves and dynamic webbing during missions and epic boss battles.

Key Features:
Welcome to the dark side - For the first time ever, control the legendary black suit, which magnifies Spider-Man's strength, agility and durability. Punish your enemies with explosive new attacks and incredible upgrades, including fearsome room-clearers. All this power comes with a price, though, as players will find the black suit harder and harder to control. Will you be strong enough to make a heroic choice before your quest for vengeance turns the city against you?

Let freedom ring - Go anywhere at any time in a larger, dynamic, free-roaming New York City and get involved in whatever you want, whenever you want. Players decide how to proceed through the game and set their own goals. Should Spider-Man follow a plot twist, switch to an alternate storyline, fight off crime waves that threaten the city or explore vast interior and underground locations? You decide.

The city is your playground - From towering skyscrapers to the vast new subterranean sewers and subways Spider-Man must patrol all of New York. Three criminal gangs and variety of Super Villains will be competing for your attention, taking hostages, stealing cars, harassing citizens, and creating havoc. Will you be able to save everyone?

Don't let the city go to the dogs - Three vicious gangs have laid claim to the boroughs of New York and must be taken down. As Spider-Man brings these criminals to justice, the crime rate will drop in that section of town and city life will return to normal; if he doesn't, the streets will turn to chaos. These super thugs won't go down without a fight though. Their advanced AI will surround Spider-Man, grapple him, call in reinforcements, and do everything they can to retake their territory.

Everybody was kung-fu fighting - Redesigned from the ground up, the all-new combat system empowers players to perform suit-specific attacks and combo chains to defeat their enemies and complete challenges and missions. New animations, combos, and finishers make punch, kick, and web attacks more effective than ever while executing ground and air manoeuvres.

Super Villains galore - Experience multi-stage, dynamic boss battles against the headlining villains from the movie as well as a host of legendary comic book foes who all take advantage of their environments, their minions, and the large-scale destruction that their superpowers cause in trying to defeat Spider-Man.

Go, go gadget - In addition to faster web-swinging, certain events and environments open up additional Spider-powers for you to control. Using Spider-Man's web abilities, he can catch falling objects including people and debris, fix hazards like broken train rails, barricade doors, and even slingshot from the tops of buildings for increased speed and huge air.

Spider-Man is growing up - As players master Spider-Man's powers through natural progression and completion of missions and challenges, Spider-Man gains ability enhancements including improved web moves, swing skills, and amazing melee combos.

Customer Reviews

Along came the spider
This has got all the main things you would and should expect from a spiderman game, this is the best ive played so far and ive played most of them, anyone who may have given it a bad rating is obviously too picky about things, just swinging around the city is awesome, and the city looks great at night or day time, one of the first things i did was jump off the empire state building.
the music fits the mood in most places, really good graphics, go anywhere you want straight away, getting bored of it?...come on, theres plenty to do, (been down to the sewer yet?)
plenty of bad guys for you to improve, and test your skills on.
when you have the black suit, that's when you can make things really 'dark' for any bad guys, pardon the pun.
this is a really good spiderman game that finally has the web swinging physics that make spiderman what he's all about, there's way better control when you swing around as well, even if your not a spiderman fan, this definitely shouldn't disappoint, there's a lot to do and learn and as i said, if you don't want to do much, just swinging around the city and try improving your swinging technique to go fast and get more fluid with it, impress people on the street is great, you can spend a few hours just doing that alone.

good swinging physics: check
black suit that makes you way more powerful: check
huge city to go anywhere straight away: check
boredom?: go jump off the empire state building, and don't shoot a webline until your right near the pavement by a few inches
plenty of bosses, bad guys, and story lines for you to improve your skills on: check

seriously, get this game, and if there are maybe, 'maybe' one or two things in the game that aren't great, come on, give the developers some slack, is still a great game

Great Fun
As a next Gen game it's not out of this world BUT looks and plays great never the less. The controls are a little sharp so take your time. Some reviews say this game has been rushed... maybe.. but it's still great fun... Loads to see ,do and swing on and plenty of things and people to fight. If your a fan of the first games you will enjoy this. Never played the other games? i say give it a go.

Overall ok but with some problems.
Briefly, game is alright but has some issues. The camera is wildly erratic a lot of times and swings around impairing your sense of direction, the city whilst nicely rendered lacks the detail, life, vibrant hustle and bustle of say Crackdown, which does a splendid recreation of a living, breathing cityscape. It would have been nice to see more daily activity on ground level and especially at night, with more busy night time activity for a huge urban jungle that is Manhattan. Crackdown by comparison, has hundreds of citizens going about their business and buildings with interesting and colourful signage. The vehicles on the other hand aren't too bad at all.

The city by day looks very nice despite the criticism above, thanks to some nice lighting. The other main concern is that it is very difficult in the "hard and frustrating" school of gaming. There are a lot of missions which by gaming standards is a good thing, but the missions can be quite lengthy and then you reach a almost impossible bit, which you may have to spend ages and ages to get past before you can save the game and switch off. Health does not regenerate by the way and there is hardly anything by the way of health packs. You'll suddenly come upon button sequence sections of the game, which can sometimes be fun but other times annoying especially as it is unforgiving in that if you fail to press the correct button at the correct time, you have to start over again. Missions can be quite tense because you don't know when the difficulty will spike and you'll be stuck in one of those "this is tough ... when will it end" scenarios. Sometimes, you'll find it more of a chore than an enjoyable experience because of this reason.

In most cases, checkpoints are (thankfully) sensibly implemented. There will be a lot of instances where you'll need to re-do a section but you'll find to your relief that a good checkpoint has been conveniently placed. However, there has been an instance when I had to redo a boss fight because of a lack of a checkpoint when it would have been sensible to put one there.

Overall, despite the criticisms it's worth playing but be warned - it can be a very difficult game and therefore I would consider it unsuitable for younger kids.