[The Amazing Spider-Man 2] Out now... for everything. Digital only on XB1.

localhjay

Edit: Update! ASM2 is out today, April 29th 2014, for just about every console under the sun. Get it!
So, this guy

is in another game by developer Beenox. the last few games were.... less than good. It's been a few years since we've gotten an open world Spidey game, but this time around we've got a fresh slate and a much longer development time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7N-KoFYZTY

I've been following this one, and it looks pretty good so far. The game's story takes place after the movie, so be aware of spoilers if you want to go in to the film fresh. The luchadore wrestling-inspired combat is featured in the game as well, and it features a wealth of really cool alternate costumes, including Stan "The Man" Lee. Plus, Bruce Campbell is in it, for some reason.



The game releases tommorow, June 26th for 360, PS3 and Wii. There are also 3DS and DS versions but, I have no info or interest in them.
As for PC...

DeMoN

Man, this is actually looking pretty sweet.

I was really hoping that Miles' suit would be unlockable though.

SoundsPlush

All I could think while watching that trailer was "man, a Spiderman game made by Rocksteady would be pretty awesome." The Arkham games are an obvious influence, what with that set up looking like a predator room and using the combo+special system, but Spidey games are one of those franchises I just assume will usually be bad. Still Spiderman was always one of my favorites, so I guess if the combat is tolerable and the story doesn't blow and you can swing around an open city, thumbs up.

Skull2185

I am 100% not on board with the upcoming movie. I do have to admit that this game is looking sweet though. Glad to see they've included normal Spidey costumes so you don't have to look at the fucking awful looking one from this new film.

Also, Bruce Campbell had cameos in the other films, I assume he has one in the new movie. He was also in the games from the first two movies, possibly the third. I don't remember.

Olivaw

I stopped hoping another good Spider-Man game would come out a long time ago

But maybe this will be okay! I'd like to play another open-world Spider-Man game

Just so long as they get the damn web-swinging right

localhjay

Skull2185 wrote: »

I am 100% not on board with the upcoming movie. I do have to admit that this game is looking sweet though. Glad to see they've included normal Spidey costumes so you don't have to look at the fucking awful looking one from this new film.

Also, Bruce Campbell had cameos in the other films, I assume he has one in the new movie. He was also in the games from the first two movies, possibly the third. I don't remember.

i think the new movie looks aces, andy garfield blows tobey away in terms of being a funny spider-man. i actually enjoy spidey's digs in this one, but i too am glad they included lots of costumes without charging us for them/preordering for them.

as for bruce, it just feels odd that campbell is still getting cameos in spider-man now that sam raimi has moved on from the property. he's awesome no doubt, i'm sure his bit will be hilarious.

HallowedFaith

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1bcXQnwjf0

UnbreakableVow

Please let this be good

It releases on my birthday

A good new Spider-Man game for the first time in goddamn years would be the perfect present

UnbreakableVow

Also, right call on the 3DS version, Jay

From the demo it seems pretty terribad

(Of course the console version may be too, who knows)

Gonna Redbox this

As a side note, the new film looks amazing

localhjay

HallowedFaith wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1bcXQnwjf0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Ilew-vTfM&feature=colike

SoundsPlush

HallowedFaith wrote: »

[Stan Lee]

oh my glob

UnbreakableVow

Hmm...

To anyone who's curious but not ready to take the plunge for purchase, take note:

This game hits Redbox on release day, and most of the Redboxes I've been to, when a new movie or game comes out, it goes live at midnight (they are stocked before and let you get the new releases right at 12:00 AM)

I'm thinking of heading up to Wal-Mart in a few

localhjay

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Hmm...

To anyone who's curious but not ready to take the plunge for purchase, take note:

This game hits Redbox on release day, and most of the Redboxes I've been to, when a new movie or game comes out, it goes live at midnight (they are stocked before and let you get the new releases right at 12:00 AM)

I'm thinking of heading up to Wal-Mart in a few

if i go and they don't have it i am mailing you cancer

balls cancer

UnbreakableVow

It is not a definite thing, to be sure, so YMMV. Like I've never seen a sign posted or anything that says "here's the deal"

But I've been at Wal-Marts at like 12:30 AM on new release days and gotten the new releases

EDIT: Yeah, heading out there. I'll report back.

Skull2185

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Please let this be good

It releases on my birthday

A good new Spider-Man game for the first time in goddamn years would be the perfect present

Shattered Dimensions was pretty ok. I thought Web of Shadows was good too.

Good luck with the red box!

localhjay

WoS was decent, and SD has some good ideas. overall, spiderman does better in an open world setting because he's fun to play as in a sandbox. the random crimes in this new game sound like a great way to keep busy in the world, like in LA Noire.

warder808

Spider-Man 3 was ok. Most of it was good, but towards the end the difficulty was excessive. The last boss fight was an uber QTE bullshit fest.
Web of Shadows was decent. I really liked the web zip from enemy to enemy system. Of course Spider-Man 2 was the best one.

This looks pretty cool and I have hope. I skipped all the Beenox games. Given the idea behind the Web-Rush locomotion I doubt that there will be mini races all over the city. This makes me sad, it was one of my favorite things from Spidey 2, and was missing in most of the games after it.

Im going to buy this blind tomorrow at lunch.

Just watched the stealth and combat video. Looks pretty sweet. Wish I could calll in sick tomorrow, but I have the rest of the week off anyway.

Random IGN dude thoughts on the game,here. He likes it.

UnbreakableVow

Foiled! Redbox updated, as they have The Artist available, but neither one here has Spidey in stock.

maximumzero

Oh yeah, Redbox, I always forget about them. I'm not into many AAA titles but that seems like an inexpensive way to check this out.

JohnDoe

Web of Shadows got soooooo tedious by the end, but its the game that captured the feel of Spiderman's fighting the best. Leaping around, bouncing off walls and comboing off enemies in a haphazard way. The webswinging was decent as well.

warder808

Web of Shadows did get tedious. But I think it was the best combat/swinging Spidey since 2. USM the swinging sucked ass. Venom parts were too different from spidey time. What did people think of SPidey 3?

UnbreakableVow

The swinging did kind of suck in USM, but the combat and presentation of the story were good enough to make up for it and then some IMO

cooljammer00

Wasn't the last Beenox Spidey game the one that took place mostly inside a dank building, therefore making web swinging useless?

JohnDoe

USM has the best voice actor for Spiderman, really fit the character. Probably the best setting, too. Web of Shadows had the best fighting. Spiderman 2, I think, had the best swinging.

I've yet to play a Spiderman game where everything comes together.

Joolander

basically what I need to knw is:

is the webswinging at least as awesome as the Spiderman 2 game or the USM game?

plufim

3DS one does look balls, but is regular DS one a 2D game? Some of those have been pretty neat metroidvanias in the past

Etchwarts

Oh man, I had this pre-ordered and everything. But then college happened.

If it's good I'll pick it up later.

Kyougu

The fact that there's not one review out is really troubling.

Luckily I won't have time to play this till Thursday, so I'll wait out on reviews.

POKÉMON MASTER WT SHERMAN

JohnDoe wrote: »

USM has the best voice actor for Spiderman, really fit the character. Probably the best setting, too. Web of Shadows had the best fighting. Spiderman 2, I think, had the best swinging.

I've yet to play a Spiderman game where everything comes together.

Spider-Man 2 was the best

Painstakingly carrying some generic thug to the top of the Empire State Building and piledriving him down to street level never failed to make me laugh

Jebral

I've been eyeballing this so hard... I cant resist open world spidey games even if they are less than great.

And damnit I wish the 3ds one was another griptonite made metroidvania. Not nearly enough of those

projectmayhem

Grain of salt and all. But there is hope

http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/the-amazing-spider-man/user-reviews

ShimSham

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Hmm...

To anyone who's curious but not ready to take the plunge for purchase, take note:

This game hits Redbox on release day, and most of the Redboxes I've been to, when a new movie or game comes out, it goes live at midnight (they are stocked before and let you get the new releases right at 12:00 AM)

I'm thinking of heading up to Wal-Mart in a few

I just checked the one down the block from me but I don't think my Redbox's game catalog had been changed in a few months sadly.

Mr_Grinch

Is there a pc version? I couldn't seem to see anything mentioned on the official site.

Also UK release date isn't till the 29th otherwise I'd have been rushing out to buy this and telling you all how good/bad it is.

HyperAquaBlast

Kyougu wrote: »

The fact that there's not one review out is really troubling.

Luckily I won't have time to play this till Thursday, so I'll wait out on reviews.

There is hardly ever any reviews allowed for games prior to release day unless its a very special game.


I will probably get this come a Amazon B2G1F deal in the future since the only enticing part is the open world. Not a fan of this movie universe or design aesthetic.

Magic Pink

I loved me some Web of Shadows but I wasn't that into Shattered Whatever. Open world games always work for me, level based do not. I pre-ordered this months ago; I love web swinging through NY.

Kyougu

HyperAquaBlast wrote: »

Kyougu wrote: »

The fact that there's not one review out is really troubling.

Luckily I won't have time to play this till Thursday, so I'll wait out on reviews.

There is hardly ever any reviews allowed for games prior to release day unless its a very special game.


I will probably get this come a Amazon B2G1F deal in the future since the only enticing part is the open world. Not a fan of this movie universe or design aesthetic.

Huh?

Most games at least have their reviews up 24hrs before release day or at the mininum the morning of the release.

It's when there's no reviews period that it's a very "special" game.

Wordherder

I dunno, even though Shattered Dimensions was (mostly) linear I still dug it. Nice combination of nostalgia and weirdness. Also Neil Patrick Harris was in it.

Magic Pink

Kyougu wrote: »

HyperAquaBlast wrote: »

Kyougu wrote: »

The fact that there's not one review out is really troubling.

Luckily I won't have time to play this till Thursday, so I'll wait out on reviews.

There is hardly ever any reviews allowed for games prior to release day unless its a very special game.


I will probably get this come a Amazon B2G1F deal in the future since the only enticing part is the open world. Not a fan of this movie universe or design aesthetic.

Huh?

Most games at least have their reviews up 24hrs before release day or at the mininum the morning of the release.

It's when there's no reviews period that it's a very "special" game.

Nah, there's plenty of games that reviews don't come out until day of or even well after the release.

Magic Pink

cloudeagle wrote: »

I dunno, even though Shattered Dimensions was (mostly) linear I still dug it. Nice combination of nostalgia and weirdness. Also Neil Patrick Harris was in it.

Yeah, it was a good game just not one I could enjoy.

vamen

Finally a thread for this.
I'm pumped! My copy is on the way.
Disappointed with the webs sticking to the air, but I'll get over it.

And FINALLY a Spidey game bringing back the alternative costumes, like the Spiderman games of old.

Skull2185

Somebody, who isn't me, play this game already! I need to know if its good. It looks good... like Beenox got private lessons from Rocksteady on how to do your super hero subject matter some justice.

I just need one of you guinea pigs fine forum pals to do the leg-work for me.