SM3 is the definition of a movie game, recounting the events of the film it’s based on while also selling people on the fact that the cast of the film provided their voices. Honestly if the hero/menace system was removed from TASM2, it would be a much better game, maybe even recommendable. Missions also have a lot more variety, placing emphasis on stealth and tracking down costumes to level up. In the web-slinging department SM3 has a slight leg up over its competition, but every other activity outside of this is much better in TASM2. Combat, though still not great, takes a page from the Batman: Arkham formula and is much more fun than the button mashing fisticuffs found in SM3. For everything that it did wrong, SM3 at least allowed you to freely swing around at your own leisure and only do side-missions if you so wished to.
I really enjoyed Beenox’s take on web-slinging in TASM2 where your right and left web-shooters are mapped to the left and right triggers, but they also made the cardinal sin of removing the joy from swinging around by poorly implementing a morality meter into the game that forced you to keep playing the same boring side-missions over and over or else get hunted by robots or stopped by road blocks. Both place the main hero in an open-world New York City where you can activate missions to advance the plot or pass the time with side-missions and hunting collectibles. Overall though TASM2 is a better looking game all around with human character models that don’t look like their eyes are going to explode from their heads and a lot more varied environments in its outside of the city stages.ĭespite being released seven years apart from one another, TASM2 and SM3 are a lot of like from a gameplay perspective. Neither Spider-Man 3 nor The Amazing Spider-Man 2 really wow with their graphics and by the time TASM2 rolled around, we already had seen a virtual New York City recreated in a Spider-Man game five times, making it considerably less special. NOTE: There are many different versions of these games, but for the purpose of this feature, I’m looking at the “current generation” versions of both: The Xbox 360 for Spider-Man 3 and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on the PS4. I’m going to break things down into four categories : graphics, gameplay, acting and replay value and determine once and for all which is the worse Spider-Man movie game: Spider-Man 3 or The Amazing Spider-Man 2. The Amazing Spider-Man 2, similar to Spider-Man 3, also arrived during the time of a change in the console cycle, though at the time Spider-Man 3 arrived in stores, that particular generation was well under way, but people (including myself) were also still clinging onto their PS2’s.
In the case of the movies, both SM3 and TASM2 failed to build upon really good chapters and each tried to cram in way too much stuff into their run times to the point of silliness.Sorry about all of the Spider-Man themed articles as of late, it’s just that after the news last month about Sony leasing Spider-Man to Marvel Studios I went Spidey crazy and just started playing games I had never tried before (like Spider-Man 3) and replaying ones I had ( The Amazing Spider-Man). While it might be more appropriate to compare Spider-Man 2 against The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as they were both the tie-in games to the second chapter in their respective series, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as a game has a lot in more in common with Spider-Man 3, both as a movie and as a video game:
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