It's a neat mechanic and probably the only truly original thing I've seen in the game. The one thing I truly liked about the game was the web-strike or whatever is called, which is basically a time-stop first-person view that enables you to shoot a web to a wall or enemy and get around (besides having other, more ordinary mobility skills). Every action game for the past 20 years has done it.
To top it off, it's something no one's ever done before. Some epic boss fights are good and stand out as probably the best bits of this title. Some of the animations are okay, but nothing too spectacular. Obviously, this is all sprinkled with fancy webbing-tricks and acrobatics to add some flare. Sometimes you'll try to hit a guy and you'll punch nothing but air and some other times the combat sequences are a bit more fluid. It feels like a less polished version of Arkham City's combat system. The combat is arguably the strongest point in this game, but it's not really anything new. But hey, "Texture Quality: AMAZING" sounds pretty good to me. I had to download a 'fix' from the interwebz that basically runs the game on DX9, hence disabling a lot of the eye-candy settings. It's because this is a terrible, terrible port and you have a 50/50 chance that your PC will go full retard in the FPS department for no apparent reason.
Is it because my computer can't run it? Nope. Graphically, based on the options that you can tweak before launching the game, an educated guess would be that the game looks fantastic and it has a lot of potential to be shining, shimmering and splendid, but it's just a guess, after all. In the spirit of keeping it fancy, there's power upgrades to choose from and different suits to wear.
Needless to say, the side-missions are scarce and repetitive. There's nothing wrong with the formula, since that's what most modern action games do, but in this case, it just feels bland and empty. To keep it 'sandboxey', there's a few secondary objectives and a couple of collectibles that you can waste time on in-between missions. The missions feel completely ripped out from the rest of the game. The presentation is basically something that resembles a sandbox open-world action game but that it's in reality closer to a bad beta or a DLC pack from some other game. I'm not sure if this is cohesive with the comics, but who cares? At the end of the day, it feels like a very poor plot lacking in substance. Some creepy dudes break free from Oscorp, some other dude makes robots to kill the first dudes, most dudes in the city get infected by the first dudes and Spidey has to save the day. The game picks up where the movie left off.
(PC VERSION) Straight up: The Amazing Spider-Man is an over-budgeted attempt to cash in on the homonymous Hollywood remake.
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