Product Description

A deadly symbiote invasion brings devastation to New York City. In Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, the game is set in an apocalyptic vision of the city. You'll have complete control over New York City's salvation and the fate of Spider-man. It also features an all-new combat system that allows for three-dimensional battles that can start on the street and end up on rooftops. You can also switch between the red and black Spider-Man suits, choose to ally with Marvel's heroes or villains and decide what missions to undertake to save Manhattan from destruction. Extra Credit - As you progress, you earn experience in multiple combat disciplines so you can custom-design your ideal Spider-Man Instant Replay - dozens of story choices and character customization options

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7183 in Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Model: 047875832879
• Published on: 2008-10
• Released on: 2008-10-21
• ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
• Platform: PlayStation2
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .59" h x 5.42" w x 7.50" l, .38 pounds

Features

• Not-So-Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man - A fusion of web-slinging and powerful combat moves combine to create an unbeatable, all-new fighting system that intuitively blends Spider-Man's speed and strength with the environment for deadly new attacks and combos
• Anything Goes - At a moment's notice, you can harness the grace, agility and acrobatics of Spider-Man Red Suit, or leverage the brute, savage power of the Black Suit. Switch suits at any time to create devastating never-before-seen combos and finishing moves
• The City That Never Sleeps - Teeming with life, the Big Apple is more alive than ever before in the Spider-Man series. Citizens will either cheer Spider-Man on or run away in fear, depending on your actions and decisions
• Increased city interactivity and destructibility allow you to pick up and use anything in your way as a weapon, destroy store fronts, demolish vehicles, and virtually obliterate city streets with powerful attacks
• With some of the greatest heroes and most notorious villains in the Marvel Universe, including staples such as Luke Cage and Vulture, your choices control who will ultimately aid you in the fight to rid New York of the alien symbiote

Customer Reviews

Reminds me of a Sega Genesis game
I was eagerly looking forward to this games release, especially because it is a Spider-Man game base more on the comics than the movies, with an original plot and story. I have heard great things about the PS3 version of this game, unfortunately the PS2 version is an entirely different game. This game is a side scrolling game with no 3D control at all, the game play is repetitive and boring. Basically you can move side to side and fight enemies with a punch button or a kick button, and climb up and down walls, that's it, you can "buy" special moves for your character, but they don't really do anything. After about the third bad guy you've basically played the entire game. This game reminds me of the Total Carnage Spider-Man game for the Sega Genesis from 1995, but even worse as you can't even control your character up or down in the depth field of the environment. This game is sub-par even to the original Playstation one Spider-Man game, or even to the Sega Genesis Total Carnage Spider-Man game, both of which were actually quite good for their day. It gets extremely boring after about 5 minutes, the gameplay is horrible and the story line isn't much better. There's very little spoken dialog between characters, you can make "choices" as to what Spider-Man can say to them in written form, but the choices don't make much difference except to give your character red or black points in order to purchase meaningless power ups.
Activision has promoted the PS3 and 360 versions of the game and not made it very clear that the PS2 and PSP versions have dramatically different versions of gameplay.
This game was made for the PS3 as a 3D game and the PS2 version is one of the worst PS2 games I've ever purchased. I think that it has been mis-represented by Activision's marketing campaign and is a truly poor attempt to make a quick buck off of people who have not purchased next generation consoles. If you're a Spider-Man fan or a gaming enthusiast you will be most likely be extremely disappointed by the PS2 version of this game.

Gets boring after a while
With Spider-Man: Web of Shadows swinging across every platform, you'd figure that the PS2 would get a watered down version that if anything, was close to that the Wii would see. Well, with Web of Shadows for the PS2, you'd figure wrong; note the subtitle that reads Amazing Allies Edition. Instead of using the tried & true open world New York City playing style that has been implemented since Spider-Man 2 (and is used on the other versions of Web of Shadows), this PS2 version is a 2-D side scroller-ish beat 'em up. Yeah, it's the 16-bit era of superhero video games all over again, and things haven't changed much either as you'll find here. You play as Spidey, pick up various power-up's, have an occasional team-up with some fellow Marvel heroes, and take down hordes upon hordes of bland baddies and the occasional boss as well. While there is a degree of fun to be had, Web of Shadows does get pretty boring after a while, especially considering that it doesn't take you long to see what all the game has to offer, which the PS2 version has little. Still, the game doesn't look or sound bad one bit, and there is a decent amount of power-up's and unlockables to find, plus the game's story is fun and makes good use of Spidey and his supporting cast of allies and villains. All in all, if you're still holding on to your PS2 and are a Spidey fan, Web of Shadows is worth a rental and nothing more. If you're craving another open-world Spidey adventure though, you won't find it here.

Spider-man web of shadows game - you can only walk sideways ... ?
Our 10 year old son asked me to do him the favor of reviewing this game for him. He's a big fan of all the spider-man games going all the way back to playstation 1. As soon as he put this game into his PS2 all i heard was ... what is this ? This game is dumb, you can only walk sideways and the graphics are bad. I just tried it for myself, and he's right. He just received a PS3 for his birthday a few days ago, and i noticed the reviews for the PS3 version are much better.

We might just get it for PS3 and see how good that one is.