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post #51 of 172
6/30/04 at 11:16am
The street missions do get repetitive over time, but you use them to earn hero points, which you then trade in for additional moves - both swinging, combat and flat-out showboating moves for when you're in freefall. The evolution of your web and fighting abilities is more than just window dressing and really does crank up the way you play the game. Also, once you get past the basics, the "tutorial" is actually scattered all over the city in the form of dozens of hint icons so there's always some new trick or control method to learn (anyone done a loop-the-loop yet?). Add in 40 tongue-in-cheek titles to earn, plus all those races, all the skyscraper tokens, all the secrets. Oh yeah, and a storyline that seems to follow the basics of the movie but also blends classic Spidey characters like Black Cat and Mysterio into the movie world.

The initial rush may wear off, but the entertainment and value for money hardly plummet as a result.
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post #52 of 172
6/30/04 at 3:24pm
I'm buying this game this weekend. No questions asked.
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post #53 of 172
6/30/04 at 6:29pm
I had an hour to kill before seeing the movie this morning cause the first show was sold out. Since I live an hour away from the theater I spent that time in Best Buy playing this.

I can't see myself getting tired of this for a while. I might get burnt out, but I think it's gonna be something I can pop in every now and then and have a blast.
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post #54 of 172
6/30/04 at 7:08pm
Which of these drives does your X-Box have?

If its the Thompson, like I have, then you can expect problems like that. That site has info about it. It hasn't locked up on me yet, but I'm always having problems when I watch dvds.
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post #55 of 172
7/1/04 at 2:19am
Do the boss fights and indoor areas suck, or was IGN way off in their review? They loved it, but kept going back to those two things as big problems.

I have this on the way from Gamefly. Should be here any day now....

- Fate
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post #56 of 172
7/1/04 at 2:53am
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Originally Posted by Cogs of Fate
Do the boss fights and indoor areas suck, or was IGN way off in their review? They loved it, but kept going back to those two things as big problems.

I have this on the way from Gamefly. Should be here any day now....

- Fate
I dunno, because I can't get past just web-slinging around the city. It's gleeful.
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post #57 of 172
7/1/04 at 3:39am
This game's amazing. I was sitting in the theater watching the moive and every time it showed Spidey flying around the city and felt the urge to fun out of there and grrab the game. Well I managed to wait and picked it up on my way home. Holy crap, so this is what it's like to web sling. This is it, everything I wanted to do in the movie is accessible here. My only complaint is that the graphics aren't the greatest in the world but the lack of load times make up for it.
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post #58 of 172
7/1/04 at 8:09am
Anyone notice that Mysetrio says the incantation from Army of Darkness in the theatre?!?!?!
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post #59 of 172
7/1/04 at 9:58am
Thread Starter 
The game flat-out rules, the swinging is perfect, the combos, the upgrades, the city...it's all great.

The only thing that dings it are the some of the cut scenes, especially the ones with the citizens. They're pretty horrible.
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post #60 of 172
7/1/04 at 12:03pm
Bought this last night, loving every minute of it so far. Lots of techniques to learn, great combos and webslingings to hit the thugs with, the map is just freakin' beautiful, and I've barely done any storyline missions. Everything Dan and others have said is right on the money. Can't wait to play some more.
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post #61 of 172
7/1/04 at 12:04pm
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Originally Posted by Jacob Singer
Bought this last night, loving every minute of it so far. Lots of techniques to learn, great combos and webslingings to hit the thugs with, the map is just freakin' beautiful, and I've barely done any storyline missions. Everything Dan and others have said is right on the money. Can't wait to play some more.
You guys are just making me want to attempt to bounce a check today just so I can get my hands on this one.
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post #62 of 172
7/1/04 at 1:18pm
Is it true that the PC version of this game blows?
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post #63 of 172
7/1/04 at 2:21pm
I freaking love this game.

It's HUGE.
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post #64 of 172
7/1/04 at 3:06pm
It's fun, but I don't think I like it as much as the rest of you, could be because I suck at it. I can't seem to do the combos well and I end up using the same few moves over and over. I played up to like level 10 where I'm supposed to swing out to the Statue of Liberty, after falling in the water 10 times or so I gave up for the night.
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post #65 of 172
7/1/04 at 3:11pm
Yeah, I'm buying this sucker today.
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post #66 of 172
7/1/04 at 3:16pm
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Originally Posted by flyarz
Is it true that the PC version of this game blows?
If I remember correctly the pc version is a completely different game and engine, and it's geared to the kiddies.
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post #67 of 172
7/1/04 at 3:18pm
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Originally Posted by otisthecat
I can't seem to do the combos well and I end up using the same few moves over and over.
I thought you were one of those uber ninjas who never met a combo he couldn't master.

Thanks for bursting my bubble. Guess I'll have to look elswhere for my heroes... <sigh>
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post #68 of 172
7/1/04 at 3:52pm
It's either a poor timing thing or I'm doing the combos and just can't tell. I have the cannonball swing but I'm always to high to hit anyone with it. When I use the X,Y,A, knee kick they always block it unless they are stunned, in which case any move works. I have a "charge jump then hit X" punch move that the enemies just step out of the way of every time. I have this showoff move, after the double jump I'm supposed to hit A again, when I do it Spidey kind of lays on his back as he's falling. Is that the move?! Fuck if I know. Can I swing enemies around from the beginning or is that something buy later? I can't get more than a 1/4 turn out of them.

It would be more fun to experiment if I couldn't get through every fight practically untouched just by using the dash uppercut over & over & over....

I'm also sick of that fucker that gets trapped in the manhole all the damn time.
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post #69 of 172
7/1/04 at 4:01pm
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Originally Posted by Jacob Singer
I thought you were one of those uber ninjas who never met a combo he couldn't master.

Thanks for bursting my bubble. Guess I'll have to look elswhere for my heroes... <sigh>
No kidding. It's like my whole belief system is crashing down. Next thing I know, someone is going to tell me Bush 2.0 is NOT the greatest president ever.
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post #70 of 172
7/1/04 at 4:06pm
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Originally Posted by Jacob Singer
If I remember correctly the pc version is a completely different game and engine, and it's geared to the kiddies.
Sigh. Back to Oregon Trail I go.
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post #71 of 172
7/1/04 at 4:08pm
I'm still buying it.
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post #72 of 172
7/1/04 at 4:34pm
How would one do that?
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post #73 of 172
7/1/04 at 4:41pm
cool, I look forward to that.

So far this game is fun. Fighting is easy...I've been swinging around muggers and robbers into the ground, it looks painful. (I suspect though that's one of the easier things you can do whilst fighting)
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post #74 of 172
7/1/04 at 7:24pm
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Originally Posted by Whitey Powers, Jive Homicide Det.
Which in turn is from THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL.

Last night I was playing, fighting random crimes. You know whats a cool move. You can websnag a bag guy and then tie the other end to a lamppost. They guy is just hanging there flailling about why you beat the crap out of him. God, I love this game.

Oh, that's even cooler.

How do you string up criminals on streetlights? I checked the stats and it says "Criminals tied up on streetsigns: 0" or whatever
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post #75 of 172
7/1/04 at 7:40pm
You have to buy the ability with Hero points.

The second half of the Arena fight is a minor pain.
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post #76 of 172
7/1/04 at 8:39pm
I beat the Rhino and took some pics for the Daily Bugle.

I have pretty much gotten nowhere on this game, due to my inability to prevent myself from slapping the shit out of bank robbers and car jackers.
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post #77 of 172
7/2/04 at 3:21am
VERY COOL game.

The graphics are very par (the sky...seriously guys, I could a better sky in MS Paint) but the webslinging, the Campbell, and the cityscape are succulent.
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post #78 of 172
7/2/04 at 7:46am
Just beat Doc Ock today and am now in "Spider-man 2.5" territory.....

are their any unlockable costumes, comic covers, modes, mini games?

the arcade games you can play are ok but are only tutorials.
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post #79 of 172
7/2/04 at 8:21am
Where is the arcade? I remember being told I could go in it whenever I wanted, but I never bothered to make a note of where it was on the map.
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post #80 of 172
7/2/04 at 3:07pm
The arcade is in an alley by the pizza place.

Found out, it isn't the combos I have trouble with, it's the fact that even a damn purse snatcher can dodge and block just about anything. I'm friggin Spider-Man and they can dodge when they aren't even facing me. I'm on the last battle now, the toughest of all the fights was the warehouse battle with the three giant robot guys, much more difficult than any of the others. The DO train fight was a joke.
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post #81 of 172
7/2/04 at 4:04pm
Goddamn I need to get this game...
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post #82 of 172
7/2/04 at 4:17pm
Some of you are already finished? Jeez, do you take time to enjoy the game or what?
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post #83 of 172
7/2/04 at 4:32pm
I just rented it so I'm playing the missions as they come up. Honestly the other things to do just aren't that fun or rewarding. The random crimes you can stop are the exact same things over and over and you have to do so many of them in the normal course of gameplay I don't know why you would want to do any extra.
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post #84 of 172
7/2/04 at 8:03pm
Well after Ock it's getting 50,000 points so I gotta stop all sorts of crime, it's fun to go on a pizza mission, deliver them all, then kick a random thiefs ass, then swing away to the pizza place.

Those robots are fucking hard.

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The DO train fight was a joke.
Like it was easy or it was hard or what?

the fight with Mysterio is funny.

almost have all the upgrades and the movie theatre is unlocked but it's stupid, you only get the logo intros, the three demos from when you idle at the menu screen and the end credits, where are all the cinema sequences?!

this games extremely addictive, hell for the first time the crooks tried to escape the scene by helocopter! Sadly my PS2 is acting up and most the time won't read the discs, I may have to run a lenscleaner through it.
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post #85 of 172
7/2/04 at 8:22pm
Enjoying the game quite a bit so far. The missions ARE repetitive, but that isnt really a bad thing. I don't know that i'll ever get sick of chasing down a speeding car and landing right on top of it on the first try (doesnt happen often).

I havent done any story missions; my only interest right now is exploring and finding shit. I'm enjoying going after those Bouey Tokens, and finding all the "hint markers".

The only major downside so far has been the race challenges. I spent an hour it seemed like on just one of those (4 checkpoints, simply going around the block). I was trying for the "mega time" so maybe thats the problem. One nearly broken controller later and I beat it, and got NOTHING for it. Fuck the races.

- Fate
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post #86 of 172
7/2/04 at 8:34pm
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Originally Posted by Whitey Powers, Jive Homicide Det.
Nowhere else can you climb to the top of the empire state building and the freefall all the way down and at the very last second throw out a webline and swing away. Fucking awesome.
I did that too, it made me slightly queezey on the way down, but instead I let spidey go splat.
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post #87 of 172
7/2/04 at 8:39pm
how hard would it have been to implement some x-box live feature where from time to time the developers would release a pack of more random crimes to dismantle as Spiderman?

If they'd paid attention to just how boring things got in True Crime you would think that would be an option, to download new random content (or pay for it like the Splinter Cell Levels) to enjoy.
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post #88 of 172
7/2/04 at 8:55pm
Not knowing about the suckage of the PC version, I purchased it.

Oh...man...do I wish I could take it back.
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post #89 of 172
7/3/04 at 8:26pm
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Originally Posted by Darth_Chocula
Like it was easy or it was hard or what?
Easy, so was the last fight. Flipping the switches before the last fight was a pain though.
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post #90 of 172
7/3/04 at 11:33pm
I finished it in 6 hours and that includes the leisure swinging with I'm guessing ammounted to at least an hour. It's good, those who complained about the lack of Spidey quips in the movie have a lot to like here. After you finish the story the game isn't over, there are a lot of sub missions and things you can find so I'm sure I'm going to squeeze out my moneys worth. A great game, the only thing that bugged me were the crappy graphics which only makes me yearn for the next gen systems. Otherwise, I'd recommend it to anyone that likes Spiderman, or life.
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post #91 of 172
7/4/04 at 12:00am
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Originally Posted by otisthecat
Easy, so was the last fight. Flipping the switches before the last fight was a pain though.
i found it hard until I remembered the Spidey sense on the L1 button

Heh, silly me.

Apparently the developers put a big secret int he game, I don't know what the hell that could mean, I know if yu complete enough of the shocker arena you fight Calypso, a villain I know basically nothing about, but that sounds like a C level villain so it can't be that big, it has to be something else.


Playable doc Ock? Fucking hope so.

Random Goblin attack later? Too insane to fathom. The Lizard? Nahhh, probaly not...

Spider-man fights Ash in S-mart? Makes no sense at all.
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post #92 of 172
7/4/04 at 1:07am
All right, so I'm swinging along and there's some sort of gang fight, I approach these gentlemen and ask them to break it up. One of them hit me with a bottle. So what did I do. I webbed him, snatched him up and made my way to the top of the Empire State Building. While I was there, I punched him in the stomach once, then I jumped off and piledrived him...FROM THE TOP OF THE FUCKING EMPIRE STATE BUILDING!!!! No need to swing to safety because his spinal column compressing and liquifying absorbs the fall. That guy went straight to hell, extremely fast.
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post #93 of 172
7/4/04 at 1:21am
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Originally Posted by Lex
All right, so I'm swinging along and there's some sort of gang fight, I approach these gentlemen and ask them to break it up. One of them hit me with a bottle. So what did I do. I webbed him, snatched him up and made my way to the top of the Empire State Building. While I was there, I punched him in the stomach once, then I jumped off and piledrived him...FROM THE TOP OF THE FUCKING EMPIRE STATE BUILDING!!!! No need to swing to safety because his spinal column compressing and liquifying absorbs the fall. That guy went straight to hell, extremely fast.
From the headline on tomorrow's Daily Bugle:

MASKED MENACE TRIPS, FALLS FROM EMPIRE STATE
Innocent Bystander Killed By Impact
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post #94 of 172
7/4/04 at 1:51am
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Originally Posted by Lex
All right, so I'm swinging along and there's some sort of gang fight, I approach these gentlemen and ask them to break it up. One of them hit me with a bottle. So what did I do. I webbed him, snatched him up and made my way to the top of the Empire State Building. While I was there, I punched him in the stomach once, then I jumped off and piledrived him...FROM THE TOP OF THE FUCKING EMPIRE STATE BUILDING!!!! No need to swing to safety because his spinal column compressing and liquifying absorbs the fall. That guy went straight to hell, extremely fast.
Nothing says "hateful" like a pile driver from the top of the Empire State Building. I only wish there was a way to get to the very top radio tower with a bastard in my hands.
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post #95 of 172
7/4/04 at 2:46am
Off to go piledrive some fools

Arena level 3 is ass.

and my game froze after completing arena #2 and 2 pizza missions

fucking wahhhhhh.


LOL at the last three messages.
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post #96 of 172
7/4/04 at 4:14am
That Statue of Liberty "fight" with Mysterio seriously gave me vertigo. I almost had to turn the game off and go waller around on terra firma for a few minutes.
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post #97 of 172
7/4/04 at 8:02pm
Just completed the chapter after ock where you have to get 50,000 points, now the Chin tells me to hang around, complete the missions and junk and ends with "see you next time"

Darn, i thought this game had huge secrets, the movie theatre dosn't have any of the cinemas from the game!!!

grrrr, better be some unlockables

Right now i'm just doing the MJ missions and finding hideouts right now and going in the buildings [green on your radar]
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post #98 of 172
7/4/04 at 9:09pm
How do you piledrive people off of Empire State? You can't webswing up there (can you?) and I don't think you can climb up walls while holding a thug. How the crap are people doing it?
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post #99 of 172
7/4/04 at 10:49pm
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Originally Posted by The_Gistmeister
How do you piledrive people off of Empire State? You can't webswing up there (can you?)....
Yes you can. Either that or just use the elevator.
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post #100 of 172
7/4/04 at 10:59pm
Elevator?


Pretty odd that the arena has lizard people you fight, makes me wonder.............hmmmmm
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