The Amazing Spider-Man 2

This game bagan so well but by the end, it had fallen so flat. Let's start with the positives. The boss battles were good even if they were few. All battles required strategy, quick-thinking as well as timing and I also liked how cinematic they could be. Another great thing about this game is the fun combat. The animations are fluid and very satisfying. I appreciate the improvement they made for the stealth gameplay. If you're into stealth, then you're in for a treat. It's not a perfect mechanic but the game has made stealth a gameplay focus.

Now the negatives: The game became repetitive mid way until the end. The story was strong in the beginning but the ending was shaky and rushed. I prefer the web swinging in the first TASM as the 2 buttons in this game felt unpolished and unresponsive at times. The Hero/Menace system was a good idea but poorly implemented. This mechanic ruined my experience with the game. One of the worst things an open world game can do, is to constantly force players on how they should play it. I loved swinging across the beautiful city, retrieving collectibles and doing hero missions that came my way. But this hero/menace system makes mobility so cumbersome. More annoying is the fact that, no matter how many hero missions you do, the menace system will still put heat on you some 1 minute later because the hero missions spawn infinitely. This will leave you either in a constant heat wanted level or you must do all infinite hero missions as every minute passes. Which is completely unrealistic and I don't know how the developers didn't see this coming.

TASM 2 is an okay game from start to finish. But it could have been a whole lot better.

I was only able to get maybe halfway through the game before disc wear prevented further play. (Thanks to Gamestop's complete lack of caring about games' conditions.)

However, as the gameplay barely varied, I felt like I'd seen all there is to see. And that's what is holding this game back. Most video games are incredibly repetitive, as that's the nature of the medium, but there is no imagination or innovation to push this game above average. For example, while the combat animations are nice to look at, the fighting /moveset itself offers no substantial variation. The upgrade system doesn't change the combat in any meaningful way like it does in Web of Spider-Man. The costumes don't change the combat like playing as different characters does in Shattered Dimensions. What is here in ASM 2 isn't awful. But nothing here is great. And adding to the blandness are some annoyances, the worst of which is having to constantly interrupt the main story to fight 'street' crimes. Spider-Man is quickly vilified and even violently engaged if these these crimes are ignored. And by the way, it is impossible to fight all the street crimes and help everyone in danger of burning alive in an apartment fire. So its automatically Spider-Man's fault when these things happen. Spider-Man is blamed. You're the bad guy. Just like that. So you can pursue the game's main storyline to finish this grind or pull your webs out by the roots combating thugs and fires in overwhelming plethora. Yes there is a balance to achieve here, but it's skewed far too much to ignoring the main storyline to pursue these activities that ultimately feel like busywork, rather than enjoyable distractions.

Everything in ASM 2 is done better in other Spider-Man games, leaving this game solidly behind those better titles. If you can grab this game for like $10 or less, go for it. But personally I didn't--and wouldn't--pay more than that. If I had paid full price for this on release, I'd have felt pretty ripped off. The lukewarm-to-negative reception this game received is understandable.

I had to return my copy to Gamestop since the copy they sent me was badly scratched and stopped working after just a few hours. (I kept only 2 out of 10 games from my order. Not good, Gamestop.) But I'm in no hurry to replace the copy I had. A PS3 /PS4 blu-ray copy would be nice since those disc surfaces are scratch-resistant, unlike Xbox 360's dumb proprietary DVDs. However, I wouldn't be able to transfer my save file from my Xbox 360 to those versions, obviously, and I really don't want to have to replay the first 1/2(?) of this game. A just-okay-not-great game. A game that's worth a single playthrough if you can find it for cheap. A game that's playable if you're a fan of Spider-Man. If you're not a fan, I'd definitely skip this one.

Pros: Web-slinging feels pretty good. Combat is pretty to look at.

Cons: Everything else.

Very fun game. Would recommend Marvel Spider-Man more but this game is still great. Skekskkdldkfkkfdwegefgsfehfsehfehafrykrw4kysrkeyykaererlgaldfdfglbsldfsldgfladgrareylaerylraehlzdbvkfsdhksrelyare,yrlyelyrealtylrhlrelzhltrzhlstr.

I've heard a lot of negative comments and bad reviews on this game but I think it's awesome!

Yes, the story is short. I liked this though because it never felt like it was being dragged on. The variety of Spidey costumes you unlock along the way are sick and the swinging around NYC in so much fun and very much improved from other Spidey games.

I also really enjoyed the combat despite being a bit repetitive. (However I feel as though combat is somewhat repetitive in all action/adventure games).

Even though the story is pretty short it contains numerous boss fights with good villains and there is a heap of things to do when the story is over. Hideouts, collecting comics, racing, taking photographs, saving civilians, bashing bad guys etc.

I really enjoyed this game overall. Graphics aren't peaking as many have mentioned but I found they were pretty crisp throughout gameplay and Spider-Man looks really good. Cut-scenes look more dodgy graphic-wise then the gameplay did! (Voice/mouthing syncing on characters is horrible!)

9/10

How do you know you messed up your Spider-Man game? When the LAST thing I want to do is wen swing. The animation is horred, the acting sucks, the controls okay when they work, and the camera with make you stick within an minute.

There are a lot of ideas here that would be out to better use in Marvel's Spider-Man on the PS4. Just play that instaad