and let´s start with our first review of Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions.
Spider-Man in these years hasn´t been receiving such a good treatment,they rebooted the comics,Spetacular Spider-Man got cancelled and Spider-Man 3,both the movie and the game, no comments.
But,Activision finally made a good thing to Spider-Man with Shattered Dimensions.
You take the role of 4 Spider-Men: The Spetacular, The Noir(based on the marvel Noir line), the future Spider-man(from the 2099 comic line) and Ultimate bonded with the black suit as they try to recollect the fragments of the tablet of order and chaos.
Now,that I gaved you the summary of this game, let´s start the review with:
Story:
He is then contacted by Madame Web which also contacted other 3 Spider-Men and she says to him to collect these fragments so she can fix, before the dimensions seize from existence.
Now the Story is very, very short, it can take you 2 days to complete this game from how incredibly short the Story is.
The story if you look with attention sounds like a saturday morning cartoon crossover.
The Story is split in 3 acts, and every time you complete the acts,it shows you cutscenes of what Mysterio and the Spider-men are doing.
The story was written by Dan Slott,who did Arkham Asylum:Living in Hell from DC Comics
And I have to say that the story they could have putten more focus on the story, it´s isn´t very creative.
The new characters´ backstory isn´t explained, so you most go to Character Bios to check their story, they don´t say much about Hobgoblin.
And that´s all I can say, since there isn´t much explain about it.
Gameplay:
There are 3 bosses for each spidey in each act.
The controlls are very simple, I didn´t have difficulties with it, but I analized that majority of my friends had problems with web zipping, since you needed to aim with the camera to do it, which to them was very annoying, since either spider-man wouldn´t zip or he would web swing instead.
The four Spider-men has different gameplays:
The amazing is focussed on web gameplay, it´s kind of annoying when you face mysterio with this Spider-man, since millions of enemies will come just to kick your ass and your attacks won´t affect much damage like with Ultimate.
But, he is fine, I enjoyed playing with him, especially the Kraven level.
2099 is more fast and agile of all the spider-men, you usually beat the crap out of everything with him, he does a lot of combos and he is my favourite spidey in the game and I´m happy that he will appear in the new Edge of time, when I have nothing to do and I play this game, I always go to the Hobgoblin level, since I found awesome playing this level, it´s really fast paced, there is a lot of enemies and such.
He has the falling stages which you must reach the enemy and beat him by punching, but that´s when you grab him, you must also avoid the obstacles, there is also accelerated vision where everything becomes slow and you can avoid projectiles with this and you also can beat your enemy with ease.
Ultimate on the other hand is also a combo maker and has this rage mode, which causes him to go insane and let´s make hundreds of hits in the enemy.
That´s pretty insane!
Majority friends enjoyed playing with him since he is easy to play, thanks to his black suit, he can control the symbiote and he has more variations of attacks.
Now, noir on the other hand, doesn´t focus on beating up enemies, well in some areas and the bosses, but it focus on taking down the enemies, using logic and being careful of being seen, you must stay in the shadows.
I like him, he is very epic, and I liked this Godfather/Scarface-like environment.
The game has the spider-sense where you can see where you can interact, where are the enemies and even the boss´ location.
Graphics and audio:
What I like was 2099´s graphics, it looks good especially Miguel O´ Hara, the spider-man of this dimension, but the Wii and Nintendo DS version turns into a cartoon style and even, thougth the consoles aren´t HD, I still didn´t like it.
And I have a question to Spider-Man 2099,I mean, how can he look in that mask, the other Spider-Men has lenses in their masks, but, what about him?
How can he look it´s a mask without lenses?
While Noir has this graphical change during Gameplay, when the enemies don´t see him, the colors are black and white and Spider-Man Noir is cel-shaded in black.
But,when the enemy sees you,the place will have color and Noir will be realistic instead of Cell shaded.
The voice acting is good, with all previous spidey voice actors voicing different spideys.
Neil Patrick Harris(which did Spidey in MTV´s Spider-man: The new animated series) voices Amazing, Christopher Daniel Barnes(which did Spidey in the 90´s cartoon) voices Noir, Josh Keaton(from Spectacular Spider-man) voices Ultimate and Dan Gilvezan(Spider-man and his amazing friends) voices 2099.
The voice acting is excellent, it had a lot of energy in the voices, they fitted the characters, the atmosphere too and I want to see this superb voice acting in Edge of Time.
The music is good, but it fits the atmosphere of each level, but you don´´t hear very often since you are foccused on the levels and don´t pay alot of attention to it.
Verdict:
Gameplay:
Gameplay is great, it is fun to replay the levels, the difficulty is average, but the gameplay is kind of generic.
Story:
Very short, it is a shame, it doesn´t show very much of it, you completely don´´t pay attention to it, the could have developed more.
Graphics:
The Graphics aren´t great, but it ain´t bad, they putted alot of effort, each style of graphic match the setting.
Audio:
The music is nice and Jim Dooley did a great job, so does the voice actors which perfectly voiced the characters
Overall Rating:
8.5/10
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