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RainOfTerror
06-15-2005, 02:14 AM
Ultimate Spider-Man allows players to take on the role of Spider-Man AND a super-villain in an original storyline. Dive into an immersive adventure as you experience a living comic-book illustrated with 3D Comic Inking Technology. The game's expanded, free-roaming environments deliver a deep adventure with a variety of challenging missions, diverse game play and an improved combat system that allows players to face off against the largest number of characters from the Spider-Man universe ever assembled.

The fighting system’s been revamped as well. The younger Spidey doesn’t have the Spider Reflexes from Spider-Man 2, but he has a more unorthodox, almost uncoordinated moveset. This isn’t the experienced superhero of past games; it’s a kid who’s making it up as he goes, with a fighting style that’s based around hit-and-run. Just about everything he can do can be strung together if the timing is right, from web swings and strikes, to combination attacks and aerial moves. This all results in the most fluid Spider-Man you’ve ever controlled. At least, that’s the plan.Check the complete Ultimate Spider-Man preview (http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=25758) over at WortPlaying.

AnthraxKitty
06-15-2005, 04:19 AM
I thought this looked interesting when I first saw it, but now that I know I get to play as Venom I'm really going to have to check it out.

The last Spiderman game's webslinging was awesome, but I thought the rest of the game pretty much sucked...hopefully this one will fix that problem.

Heretic Machine
06-15-2005, 05:45 AM
Sounds great except for one thing: They've taken out free roaming. That was pretty much my favorite part of the last game... I mean sure, they needed to fill the city with more content and stuff to do, but free roaming Spider-man was a genius idea. It's unfortunate that they're moving away from it...

AnthraxKitty
06-15-2005, 06:49 AM
Sounds great except for one thing: They've taken out free roaming. That was pretty much my favorite part of the last game... I mean sure, they needed to fill the city with more content and stuff to do, but free roaming Spider-man was a genius idea. It's unfortunate that they're moving away from it...

I don't know, I'm kinda sick of free-roaming games. Look at Tony Hawk...an awesome, old-school arcade game, almost an homage to the arcade, and look what it's ended up as: a GTA skating game. I really don't consider linear a bad thing at all.

Justin_McElroy
06-15-2005, 06:58 AM
The game's expanded, free-roaming environments deliver a deep adventure with a variety of challenging missions

So what did the previewer mean when they said that?