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Dude is just a well articulated gamer who does his best to exemplify why he loves or likes the games he does, while also keeping a pretty critical mind of the game and why others have issues with the game in question. Even the 2+ hr Arkham videos can get me to enjoy the commentary.
Yeah, I put Aqua in the same place as The Golden Bolt, both are honest in their opinions, but never afraid to express obvious pros and cons about the games they review.
I love when he talks about Peter screaming while webswinging because his scream is specifically only on the left ear and my left earbud is broken so I just heard a bunch of air
24:51 Yes, near the end of TASM 1 they're not on talking terms but in last scene with them before the final swing their path to reconciliation is foreshadowed. Due to the fact that by the start of TASM 2 they are on talking terms it makes sense that they would've worked through things by this point, considering that the game takes place of few weeks/months after TASM 1.
I remember playing this game on the Nintendo 3DS. I’m still surprised that they were able to get all the single player levels working on the 3DS and they only had to cut out the open world. Heck, they even got fairly high quality cutscenes in the game.
Honestly, thinking about playing the game makes me so nostalgic. I don’t know how they managed to keep all of those titan bossfights intact. Don’t know what the hell happened to the second game though. The game is a grey, 2D, side scroller, look it up.
the web rush was so good. When you run on top of a building then jump and spin like a movie. Also little things like helping people to hospitals or saving people from fires were great
This was one of the few games I replayed over an over again, as a kid who loved the 2012 movie I was glad that they went a different approach by adding in their own story and not directly copying the source material
The web rush is the one thing I missed a lot in the insomniac game, the swinging is beautiful but it just feels slow compared to the 2 games before it, both amazing Spider-Man games nailed the swinging speed perfectly
I bought the Vita version of this game a few years back and have fond memories playing it on the snowy days at work. I especially loved collecting all the comic book pages and even got the platinum trophy!
I've been watching you for a while and I was always feeling... happy that there's someone who has similar thought about these video games. I've started this year's my university journey and now, after watching your videos, I am impressed that you are able to create such complex and well thought "review". I can't even call them reviews, these are professional works. I sound like I'm praising a devine being... ha. I just wanna say that I enjoy watching your videos. I might not always leave a comment but I'm always having a good time.
I have no idea why in the console version of the game, you need to take pictures of spider symbols across the city to unlock the different suits. But on PC, you need to do a bunch of extra stuff. Makes me glad I still have it on my ol' Xbox 360.
24:57 If you remember at the end of the first movie Peter basically says that promises are meant to be broken indicating his willingness to break the promise he made to her father. And at the beginning of the second movie they're back together
I’m 34 and have played every spidey game since ps1. I’ve enjoyed them all but this one was really something special. Probably my favorite thing from the Amazing era.
Oh man, I love the fact you made a serious critique of a “movie license” type game. I’d genuinely love to see this approach for “James Cameron’s Avatar” and “LOTR: War in the North”
This intrigues me because I always felt this was the best Spider-Man game (overall) until Insomniac's 2018 game. Been many years though. Perhaps if I replayed it I would not feel that way. I do remember liking the stealth in this game way more than the 2018 game. I also liked that it took place after the movie, rather than being a retelling. Also the sequel (TASM 2) sucked for the most part lol. It was somehow worse than the movie. Simultaneously a sequel to the first movie, the first game, a retelling of the movie sequel, and its own thing. Such a mess.
I'd say, on a plot level, TASM2's only real problem is that the trying to retell the film. For the most part it is a pretty decent story of Peter facing Kraven, Kingpin and Carnage in a way that makes it feel like the writers wanted to do their own original story, but then late in the game someone went "Oh f**k guys, this is meant to tie into the film" and they quickly threw in Max and Harry. I've always felt that it would've worked better if, instead of starting with Uncle Ben death #87, the game had started with a boss battle against Rhino, effectively picking up where the film left off, erasing Harry as working with Kingpin and just having Fisk fund the task force himself, or replacing Harry with Donald Menken, put Carnage's breakout as what forces Peter to abandon the assault on Fisk's compound, and then just, at two points in the story, had Peter flash back to Harry and Max if they really need the film's villains in the game. Edit: On reflection it could also strengthen the crimewave plot, because Peter, as well as some of his critics, could blame the crimewave on Spider Man's absence after Gwen's death (it's been almost a decade I'm not putting a spoiler warning)
@@medafan53 OMG, YES! This is exactly what the game should've been like. I always felt that Sony told Beenox to remake the movie instead of just letting them do their thing like the first game. They don't even have Gwen in the story, which might be a clue they were going to make a sequel to the movie, not to mention the Carnage plot that was meant to be Gwen in the 3rd movie, and the whole russian plot that connects Rhino, Kraven and Chameleon, 3 members of the Sinister Six that were also meant to be in the 3rd movie.
Hey I recently got hooked to your channel through your web of shadows video and I love how in depth your videos are, it’s nice to see someone shed some light on the games I played as a kid.
Bro, I absolutely LOVE this game. So what if the side missions seem too overwhelming? I find joy in just swinging around the city and playing through the game again and again. I don’t know what it is, man, but it’s favorite game of all time lmao
It was my favorite game at the time, and still is as I've grown older, yes, there's hits and misses, pros and cons, but it'll always be one of my favorite Spider-Man games. The music and the boss battles were the best part, and the web zip felt great.
Youre the only person that actually appreciates what makes every old spiderman good from a gamplay standpoint. So many people who go back to these games either dismiss or glaze over the gameplay mechanics
This game was my GAME when I first got it back in 2012 on my birthday! I remember the web rush mechanic being the most hyped thing for me when I first read about it in Game Informer all that time ago! When I finally got to playing it and using the mechanic, I thought it was the best thing ever put into a Spider-Man game. Finally, Spider-Man was moving like something out of the movies! On that same note, I loved the combat for the same reason. I loved how it really felt like a uniquely Spider-Man way to fight the enemies, and in such a cinematic way. I became legitimately obsessed with this game for a month straight and 100%d the game just because it was "THE Spider-Man experience" and nothing else compared for a while. I could keep going on, but I doubt anybody's read even this far, let alone going to read more than this.
I just got this game for my old 360 the other day and played the entire game in a day, i went so far as to change my console date to collect every suit aside from the DLC, after finishing the game i spent hours messing around with the web rush and swinging and pulling off some really cool cinematic swings and zips, overall i love this game and if not for ur review i would not have got it
One of the best feature in this game is when you take more and more damage your suit gets more damaged or ripped. Many game comapnies dont even bother about this
Beenox's games always had fanservice and there was a clear sense that they cared about Spider-Man, it's just their yearly time crunch always limiting the amount of polish they could put onto their games. I don't think the Amazing Spidey games would have been Insomniac level, but the games could probably have been better with more development time.
my favorite youtuber easily, most of the games you cover i’ve never played but i still like to hear your thoughts on them and a couple of them i’ve even played because of your videos. keep it up
One hill I will die on in regards to this game is that it does mid-air webshooting way better than the 2018 game. In this one you go in a kind of dive and can shoot while keeping some momentum while in the 2018 one you just stop mid-air and lose all momentum
To be fair, the PS3 and 360 version of Spider-Man 3 was supposed to be the version the devs supposedly put more effort in. The PS2 and Wii version was an afterthought and wanted to captalize on PS2 and Wii owners, I am not even sure if the 360 and PS3 version is any better, I barely remember it. But as for this game, I played it many years back and I recall kind of liking it, but it suffers from all your typical movie tie in game problems, good but half baked ideas that the devs had no time to flesh out due to releasing on the movie's release date. I do think this game by comparison fares better than the Amazing Spider-Man 2 game. I am glad the era of superhero movie tie in games is over even if crap like Gotham Knights, Avengers and the upcoming Suicide Squad game can somehow get made.
I remember that I once bought the ASM2 game on the 360 because it was on sale for like 2 dollars. One of the only spiderman games I had played at the time but holy shit I had a blast
I believe Insomniac looked the Amazing SM games and went "what if these games and the Arkham games were combined?" And I really miss the web rush and web retreat option/feature in insomniac SM games.
I played this on the wii, and later again on the wiiu. I got 99% completion. I let ONE drone escape. Never got the black suit. Pissed me off for months. Never played it again.
lol I can’t even lie, during your bit for the nordVPN ad after you dropped the “I don’t live in the United States” I wondered to myself “oh wow I wonder if he moved somewhere from the US or if he’s Canadian because his accent sounds super American” and then right on cue, as if you were reading my mind, the thief in the bit says “okay sore-ree, sore-ree” and my question was immediately answered 🤣
Lol this was the best looking Spider-Man game at the time it was released, if you ignore webs attached to clouds this is the most cinematic looking web swinging in any Spider-Man game.
I remembered playing this game when I was younger and I really appreciated the new traversal, the camera angle and specially that the game had a unique original story that ocurred after the movie events
24:55 you should watch the movie again. At the end it's implied that Peter breaks his promise to Cap. Stacy and gets back togeather with Gwen. At the start of the second movie he feels guilt over that and decides to stop his contact with Gwen.
Man you unlocked a memory with the Johnny Storm races in Ultimate Spider-Man. Those 4 races brought me to the doorstep of madness. Also you were playing that music from the Beetle chase with Spider-Man and I never knew how much I missed it
@@QuikBlazer Man I did these like a decade ago but I remember a big key to these races was air control, as in controlling the web zips and timing that second jump you get in order to do another web zip. I would swing to keep my speed but if I zipped too far it could also break my momentum so I could turn quick
25:00 Not to be the kind of nerd who remembers little plot details from TASM2, but this actually is the case. In-between movies, Peter and Gwen kept getting back together until he felt guilty and broke up with her. In the movie, Gwen calls him out on this and SHE breaks up with him this time, and him dealing with that is the bulk of the romantic subplot in the movie
One of those games I like to return to at least once a year, still love how it is treated like a sequel for the movie. WHen I first heard about the robot boss fights, I was kinda dissapointed but at the end they are the best part of the game and I freakin love em
I just played this game first time ever. I was very engaged to the story and enjoyed the game play. I liked that the game was not too long and completed the game 100%. Rare games I feel I completed and experienced completely. Its not difficult but still good game. Not all games needs to be overly challenging.
I know this game and its sequal are a mixed bag, but imo the attention to detail and variety(not numbers, but unique, like manspider and zombie spiderman) in the suits is better than even insomniacs run so far, especially with the damage Insomniac is definitely next best runner up but damn did it look cool to swing around as spidercarnage
the one thing i prefer in this game to insomniac's is the web shooting and how fluid it is when free falling. I hate freezing in mid air when shooting out some webs
Spider-Man 2 is probably the most fluid traversal system across any game ever made… so I really do disagree lol. I played the 2012 amazing Spider-Man game and it freezes you and limits you exponentially more when it comes to web swinging
I love this game, it was my first Spider-Man game, and I just started playing it again, and it's just as good as I remember! Also, I really like the story, it's very clever how they did it!
24:55 Peter and Gwen being on speaking terms isn’t actually inaccurate to the film. At the end of TASM they aren’t on speaking terms until the very last line of the film in which Peter makes a joke, making her smile, implying they will most likely get back together. And in TASM2 they are together from the very start, confirming they got back together between films. So in fact this game doesn’t contradict either film, at least as far as Peter and Gwen are concerned.
I remember when the game came out my grandfather, mum and I went everywhere to find it I finally got it and I was so happy now that my grandfather has passed away I look on it fondly as a great memory
So you cover a lot of AAA games from the 360 era and sequels to them. But what are some of your favourite indie games? And are you willing to cover them some day?
Never played the console version but 3DS version was my first Spider-Man game. Looks like it's mostly the same game. A lot of the problems are more forgivable on the weaker handheld though.
I want to point out the amazing Spider-Man Canada lives up in the air about Peter and Gwen‘s relationship. Because after the funeral in the movie, she does say he made you promise didn’t hear he made you promise to stay away from me. And then you see Peter getting to school and the teacher says you’re late again, Mr. Parker. But it’s better late than never. He says I promise it won’t happen again. The teacher says in response don’t make promises you can’t keep. And then Peter leans over to Gwen saying the thing is those are the best kind of promises. And as we see an amazing, Spider-Man two they are together. So the Game actually does not contradict the movie I’m not trying to be rude. This is a fact I wanted to point out.
the first spider-man game i ever played was the 3ds version of TASM. i remember always being jealous of other consoles for their ability to free roam 😂
i miss web rush too. I liked how it zoomed into spider-mans head and we got that first person view of the world from spider-mans perspective through the lenses
I’ll die on the hill that amazing Spider-Man had the most brutal combos. There was a combo where you uppercut someone, grab them by their collar and then do a 360 into a face slam😭😭😭. That Peter was on ONE💀💀
I remember playing this game, I enjoyed some of the good bright spots in this title even some features had nice super hero spider-man animation's I wish peter and miles could pull of in the insomniac games. I love the flying comic book pages in this game, we need it back for later titles by insomniac chances are they might not do it but hey it's worth a shot.
I like how you comment on this game... A lot of reviewers either love or hate every game they review, they don't take time to see the good aspects of it like you did in this video, and that is something I really appreciate
Something I seriously miss from Beenox's Spider-man games, is just how awesome Peter moves around and poses. They absolutely nailed the animations in these games. Something I've always felt Insomniac struggled with. Their poses look stiff and forced. Even the horrible minimalist cover art for the games, the poses just look awful to me. Beenox knocked it out of the park, and they did so consistently for 3 games.
it's insinuated (and later confirmed in tasm2) that peter took aunt may's advice and gets back together with aunt may. so they are together between films
This game set the groundwork for how the Insomniac series plays. I'll always give it credit. It's one of my favorite (top 5) Spidey games. Will always love this one. The sequel isn't terrible, but feels like they nerfed the best things from this one.
I distinctly remember how this studio patted itself endlessly on the back for reinventing what had been done better in Spider-Man 2 a console generation before, and acting like they invented it.
Spiderman 64 introduced collectable suits with different powers, you had to pick up the suit as "armor" and protect it until the end of the level, if your armor broke you lost the suit forever
IMO, this is one of the better movie tie-in games. Has its flaws. But I enjoyed it unlike the film it’s tied to. Collecting actual Spider-Man comics that you can read was an awesome little bonus.
Hello. I’m new here and I like your perspective on the game. I remember playing this game a lot on the PS3 when I was in middle school. And I enjoyed it. Good times.
Damn bro i went from spiderman 2 in 2004 straight to the 2018 spiderman game ... Didnt touch or see anything else in the middle ... I feel blessed ... Ill go finish miles Morales
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Not gonna lie, that was the best ad format i´ve seen in a while 😂
Ok.
Can you do the second game?
I always liked how your suit in this can gradually become more ripped as you take damage
It's good that they added battle damage into Spider-Man Miles Morales.
That was one of the details I actually really like about the game.
Man, I am taking a stinky shit right now. Lord have mercy
@@Kx_xKGrow a beard? Canonically all Arkham games take place over the space of a few hours lol
Yea
This is still one of my favorite Spidey games. The storyline, damage suits, combat, web rush were dope af.
It is one of the best spidey games
@@bearpoop720it’s shit
I feel like this game is underrated
Same.
Dude is just a well articulated gamer who does his best to exemplify why he loves or likes the games he does, while also keeping a pretty critical mind of the game and why others have issues with the game in question. Even the 2+ hr Arkham videos can get me to enjoy the commentary.
Yeah, I put Aqua in the same place as The Golden Bolt, both are honest in their opinions, but never afraid to express obvious pros and cons about the games they review.
Ok
I love when he talks about Peter screaming while webswinging because his scream is specifically only on the left ear and my left earbud is broken so I just heard a bunch of air
that's sad, so much for science
I played this game so much as a kid and thought the traversel system was fun not the best but still fun
24:51 Yes, near the end of TASM 1 they're not on talking terms but in last scene with them before the final swing their path to reconciliation is foreshadowed. Due to the fact that by the start of TASM 2 they are on talking terms it makes sense that they would've worked through things by this point, considering that the game takes place of few weeks/months after TASM 1.
LOL I have seen both movies multiple times and yet I totally forgot about that ending scene in TASM 1. Thanks for the correction
I remember playing this game on the Nintendo 3DS. I’m still surprised that they were able to get all the single player levels working on the 3DS and they only had to cut out the open world.
Heck, they even got fairly high quality cutscenes in the game.
Honestly, thinking about playing the game makes me so nostalgic. I don’t know how they managed to keep all of those titan bossfights intact. Don’t know what the hell happened to the second game though. The game is a grey, 2D, side scroller, look it up.
They made a vita version that I found really impressive in the day.
@@somethinsimple1234 Really? They really released this game on everything
@@Ismatic1906 Vita version was open world too!
the web rush was so good. When you run on top of a building then jump and spin like a movie. Also little things like helping people to hospitals or saving people from fires were great
i RARELY ever see any praise towards these games, and this was a welcome sight to see! i think i might replay these two games
@telegraam_thatboyaqua god fucking damnit, a bot
Just replay the first, the second one is genuinely bad.
This was one of the few games I replayed over an over again, as a kid who loved the 2012 movie I was glad that they went a different approach by adding in their own story and not directly copying the source material
The web rush is the one thing I missed a lot in the insomniac game, the swinging is beautiful but it just feels slow compared to the 2 games before it, both amazing Spider-Man games nailed the swinging speed perfectly
I bought the Vita version of this game a few years back and have fond memories playing it on the snowy days at work.
I especially loved collecting all the comic book pages and even got the platinum trophy!
Yes I had the Vita version too. It was cool and I love the depth they were able to put in it for a portable game just like the console one too
The thing I loved the most about both Amazing Spider-Man 1 and 2 was the Web Rush. The animations and fluidity of them was always so cool to me.
Back when I first got this game, I could swear it looked exactly like Spiderman PS4
Both of the TASM tie-in games have a better TASM1 suit than the insomniac one
I've been watching you for a while and I was always feeling... happy that there's someone who has similar thought about these video games. I've started this year's my university journey and now, after watching your videos, I am impressed that you are able to create such complex and well thought "review". I can't even call them reviews, these are professional works. I sound like I'm praising a devine being... ha. I just wanna say that I enjoy watching your videos. I might not always leave a comment but I'm always having a good time.
I have no idea why in the console version of the game, you need to take pictures of spider symbols across the city to unlock the different suits. But on PC, you need to do a bunch of extra stuff. Makes me glad I still have it on my ol' Xbox 360.
The Amanzing spiderman 1 game is personally one of my favorite Spiderman games I played
24:57
If you remember at the end of the first movie Peter basically says that promises are meant to be broken indicating his willingness to break the promise he made to her father.
And at the beginning of the second movie they're back together
I’m 34 and have played every spidey game since ps1. I’ve enjoyed them all but this one was really something special. Probably my favorite thing from the Amazing era.
Oh man, I love the fact you made a serious critique of a “movie license” type game. I’d genuinely love to see this approach for “James Cameron’s Avatar” and “LOTR: War in the North”
War in the north is a classic lol
This intrigues me because I always felt this was the best Spider-Man game (overall) until Insomniac's 2018 game. Been many years though. Perhaps if I replayed it I would not feel that way.
I do remember liking the stealth in this game way more than the 2018 game. I also liked that it took place after the movie, rather than being a retelling.
Also the sequel (TASM 2) sucked for the most part lol. It was somehow worse than the movie. Simultaneously a sequel to the first movie, the first game, a retelling of the movie sequel, and its own thing. Such a mess.
I'd say, on a plot level, TASM2's only real problem is that the trying to retell the film. For the most part it is a pretty decent story of Peter facing Kraven, Kingpin and Carnage in a way that makes it feel like the writers wanted to do their own original story, but then late in the game someone went "Oh f**k guys, this is meant to tie into the film" and they quickly threw in Max and Harry.
I've always felt that it would've worked better if, instead of starting with Uncle Ben death #87, the game had started with a boss battle against Rhino, effectively picking up where the film left off, erasing Harry as working with Kingpin and just having Fisk fund the task force himself, or replacing Harry with Donald Menken, put Carnage's breakout as what forces Peter to abandon the assault on Fisk's compound, and then just, at two points in the story, had Peter flash back to Harry and Max if they really need the film's villains in the game.
Edit: On reflection it could also strengthen the crimewave plot, because Peter, as well as some of his critics, could blame the crimewave on Spider Man's absence after Gwen's death (it's been almost a decade I'm not putting a spoiler warning)
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OMG, YES! This is exactly what the game should've been like. I always felt that Sony told Beenox to remake the movie instead of just letting them do their thing like the first game.
They don't even have Gwen in the story, which might be a clue they were going to make a sequel to the movie, not to mention the Carnage plot that was meant to be Gwen in the 3rd movie, and the whole russian plot that connects Rhino, Kraven and Chameleon, 3 members of the Sinister Six that were also meant to be in the 3rd movie.
Hey I recently got hooked to your channel through your web of shadows video and I love how in depth your videos are, it’s nice to see someone shed some light on the games I played as a kid.
Bro, I absolutely LOVE this game. So what if the side missions seem too overwhelming? I find joy in just swinging around the city and playing through the game again and again. I don’t know what it is, man, but it’s favorite game of all time lmao
It was my favorite game at the time, and still is as I've grown older, yes, there's hits and misses, pros and cons, but it'll always be one of my favorite Spider-Man games.
The music and the boss battles were the best part, and the web zip felt great.
4:55 wtf was that line? 💀
If that was actually in the game then I’m laughing my ass off
😂😂
It wasnt but its still funny asf
You can’t possibly believe that’s an actual line in the game.
Youre the only person that actually appreciates what makes every old spiderman good from a gamplay standpoint. So many people who go back to these games either dismiss or glaze over the gameplay mechanics
I remember spending hours playing Edge of Time, but this game and Arkham City were the first games I no-lifed.
The “Amazing” Spider-Man Video Game walked so Spider-Man PS4 could run.
This game was my GAME when I first got it back in 2012 on my birthday! I remember the web rush mechanic being the most hyped thing for me when I first read about it in Game Informer all that time ago!
When I finally got to playing it and using the mechanic, I thought it was the best thing ever put into a Spider-Man game. Finally, Spider-Man was moving like something out of the movies!
On that same note, I loved the combat for the same reason. I loved how it really felt like a uniquely Spider-Man way to fight the enemies, and in such a cinematic way.
I became legitimately obsessed with this game for a month straight and 100%d the game just because it was "THE Spider-Man experience" and nothing else compared for a while.
I could keep going on, but I doubt anybody's read even this far, let alone going to read more than this.
well 4 peple liked your comment. im currently playing it on pc
@@QuikBlazer Just three, actually 😓
@@noahdavis7406 it was 4 when i liked though
i still love this game! the combat animations are so brutal
How did u get the game ?
@@حسنالعتيبي-ت7غ I still have my xbox 360 copy
I just got this game for my old 360 the other day and played the entire game in a day, i went so far as to change my console date to collect every suit aside from the DLC, after finishing the game i spent hours messing around with the web rush and swinging and pulling off some really cool cinematic swings and zips, overall i love this game and if not for ur review i would not have got it
One of the best feature in this game is when you take more and more damage your suit gets more damaged or ripped. Many game comapnies dont even bother about this
13:54 What makes up for the Johnny Storm races is the fact that Johnny drinks water reengineered from piss
Beenox's games always had fanservice and there was a clear sense that they cared about Spider-Man, it's just their yearly time crunch always limiting the amount of polish they could put onto their games. I don't think the Amazing Spidey games would have been Insomniac level, but the games could probably have been better with more development time.
my favorite youtuber easily, most of the games you cover i’ve never played but i still like to hear your thoughts on them and a couple of them i’ve even played because of your videos. keep it up
One hill I will die on in regards to this game is that it does mid-air webshooting way better than the 2018 game. In this one you go in a kind of dive and can shoot while keeping some momentum while in the 2018 one you just stop mid-air and lose all momentum
To be fair, the PS3 and 360 version of Spider-Man 3 was supposed to be the version the devs supposedly put more effort in. The PS2 and Wii version was an afterthought and wanted to captalize on PS2 and Wii owners, I am not even sure if the 360 and PS3 version is any better, I barely remember it.
But as for this game, I played it many years back and I recall kind of liking it, but it suffers from all your typical movie tie in game problems, good but half baked ideas that the devs had no time to flesh out due to releasing on the movie's release date. I do think this game by comparison fares better than the Amazing Spider-Man 2 game. I am glad the era of superhero movie tie in games is over even if crap like Gotham Knights, Avengers and the upcoming Suicide Squad game can somehow get made.
Ah the ultimate weekend rental kind of game.
I remember that I once bought the ASM2 game on the 360 because it was on sale for like 2 dollars. One of the only spiderman games I had played at the time but holy shit I had a blast
I believe Insomniac looked the Amazing SM games and went "what if these games and the Arkham games were combined?" And I really miss the web rush and web retreat option/feature in insomniac SM games.
im pretty sure all of the story inconsistencies are just because the game developers hadnt actually seen the movie while developing most of it
I played this on the wii, and later again on the wiiu. I got 99% completion. I let ONE drone escape. Never got the black suit. Pissed me off for months. Never played it again.
The web rush is the best part of this game.
lol I can’t even lie, during your bit for the nordVPN ad after you dropped the “I don’t live in the United States” I wondered to myself “oh wow I wonder if he moved somewhere from the US or if he’s Canadian because his accent sounds super American” and then right on cue, as if you were reading my mind, the thief in the bit says “okay sore-ree, sore-ree” and my question was immediately answered 🤣
Lol this was the best looking Spider-Man game at the time it was released, if you ignore webs attached to clouds this is the most cinematic looking web swinging in any Spider-Man game.
I remembered playing this game when I was younger and I really appreciated the new traversal, the camera angle and specially that the game had a unique original story that ocurred after the movie events
24:55 you should watch the movie again. At the end it's implied that Peter breaks his promise to Cap. Stacy and gets back togeather with Gwen. At the start of the second movie he feels guilt over that and decides to stop his contact with Gwen.
Man you unlocked a memory with the Johnny Storm races in Ultimate Spider-Man. Those 4 races brought me to the doorstep of madness. Also you were playing that music from the Beetle chase with Spider-Man and I never knew how much I missed it
btw how do you beat johny thesecond time
@@QuikBlazer Man I did these like a decade ago but I remember a big key to these races was air control, as in controlling the web zips and timing that second jump you get in order to do another web zip. I would swing to keep my speed but if I zipped too far it could also break my momentum so I could turn quick
@@donovanbowman8157 oh thanks
I still have nightmares of the Johnny Storm races too... I wake up with my palms in cold sweat!
25:00 Not to be the kind of nerd who remembers little plot details from TASM2, but this actually is the case. In-between movies, Peter and Gwen kept getting back together until he felt guilty and broke up with her. In the movie, Gwen calls him out on this and SHE breaks up with him this time, and him dealing with that is the bulk of the romantic subplot in the movie
Does we keep forgetting the fact, that the guy who composed TASM game is the same one who composed most of God of War's Greek Saga.
I knew the composer of the music from this game had to be good. The overworld's music is just out of the world.
One of those games I like to return to at least once a year, still love how it is treated like a sequel for the movie. WHen I first heard about the robot boss fights, I was kinda dissapointed but at the end they are the best part of the game and I freakin love em
I just played this game first time ever. I was very engaged to the story and enjoyed the game play. I liked that the game was not too long and completed the game 100%. Rare games I feel I completed and experienced completely. Its not difficult but still good game. Not all games needs to be overly challenging.
I know this game and its sequal are a mixed bag, but imo the attention to detail and variety(not numbers, but unique, like manspider and zombie spiderman) in the suits is better than even insomniacs run so far, especially with the damage
Insomniac is definitely next best runner up but damn did it look cool to swing around as spidercarnage
the one thing i prefer in this game to insomniac's is the web shooting and how fluid it is when free falling. I hate freezing in mid air when shooting out some webs
I think this game also did combat animations better than insomniac
@@calebmcclure3893yeah no. Insomniac improved on the combat in these games. The combat in the ASM games feels clunky af
@@calebmcclure3893wrong
Spider-Man 2 is probably the most fluid traversal system across any game ever made… so I really do disagree lol. I played the 2012 amazing Spider-Man game and it freezes you and limits you exponentially more when it comes to web swinging
I love this game, it was my first Spider-Man game, and I just started playing it again, and it's just as good as I remember! Also, I really like the story, it's very clever how they did it!
24:55 Peter and Gwen being on speaking terms isn’t actually inaccurate to the film. At the end of TASM they aren’t on speaking terms until the very last line of the film in which Peter makes a joke, making her smile, implying they will most likely get back together. And in TASM2 they are together from the very start, confirming they got back together between films. So in fact this game doesn’t contradict either film, at least as far as Peter and Gwen are concerned.
I remember when the game came out my grandfather, mum and I went everywhere to find it I finally got it and I was so happy now that my grandfather has passed away I look on it fondly as a great memory
So you cover a lot of AAA games from the 360 era and sequels to them. But what are some of your favourite indie games? And are you willing to cover them some day?
Played this game years ago and finished it in one day. Damn the nostalgia.
I remember playing this as a kid and being terrified by the lizard
Never played the console version but 3DS version was my first Spider-Man game. Looks like it's mostly the same game. A lot of the problems are more forgivable on the weaker handheld though.
I want to point out the amazing Spider-Man Canada lives up in the air about Peter and Gwen‘s relationship. Because after the funeral in the movie, she does say he made you promise didn’t hear he made you promise to stay away from me. And then you see Peter getting to school and the teacher says you’re late again, Mr. Parker. But it’s better late than never. He says I promise it won’t happen again. The teacher says in response don’t make promises you can’t keep. And then Peter leans over to Gwen saying the thing is those are the best kind of promises. And as we see an amazing, Spider-Man two they are together. So the Game actually does not contradict the movie I’m not trying to be rude. This is a fact I wanted to point out.
I played this on the Vita… it was an experience of all time.
I just finished a replay of this game and we get this immediately after. I'm convinced this man is stalking me now.
the first spider-man game i ever played was the 3ds version of TASM. i remember always being jealous of other consoles for their ability to free roam 😂
Maaaan but honestly it did really well for what it had to work with 3d environments same combat unlike the sequel on it
for the time this game was very fun, couldn’t ask for much more
I played this when I was younger, and loved it. I recently revisited it. I didn't enjoy it as much, but I think it still holds up.
This is a great game. The best spider-man game to this day.
The game seems to run smoothly here. How did you manage to achieve that? On my high end PC it is a stuttery mess : (
One thing I liked about these games was suit damage within fights. Wish if it was in insomniacs spider-man games
Damn man that swinging still looks super dope I like the way the camera zooms in while do some cool swing motion or running along a wall
I loved this game as a kid. I wanted to get the dlc characters but didn’t have my own money
web rush should be in insomniacs spider-man 3 in my opinion
i miss web rush too. I liked how it zoomed into spider-mans head and we got that first person view of the world from spider-mans perspective through the lenses
I’ll die on the hill that amazing Spider-Man had the most brutal combos. There was a combo where you uppercut someone, grab them by their collar and then do a 360 into a face slam😭😭😭. That Peter was on ONE💀💀
This definitely set the ground for the swinging animations and combat in the 2018 one
I remember playing this game, I enjoyed some of the good bright spots in this title even some features had nice super hero spider-man animation's I wish peter and miles could pull of in the insomniac games.
I love the flying comic book pages in this game, we need it back for later titles by insomniac chances are they might not do it but hey it's worth a shot.
I like how you comment on this game... A lot of reviewers either love or hate every game they review, they don't take time to see the good aspects of it like you did in this video, and that is something I really appreciate
Something I seriously miss from Beenox's Spider-man games, is just how awesome Peter moves around and poses. They absolutely nailed the animations in these games. Something I've always felt Insomniac struggled with. Their poses look stiff and forced. Even the horrible minimalist cover art for the games, the poses just look awful to me. Beenox knocked it out of the park, and they did so consistently for 3 games.
it's insinuated (and later confirmed in tasm2) that peter took aunt may's advice and gets back together with aunt may. so they are together between films
Honestly when i first played this game, this was my favourite spiderman game at that time until spiderman ps4 was released
How'd you know how my spider man experience went as a kid?
This game set the groundwork for how the Insomniac series plays. I'll always give it credit. It's one of my favorite (top 5) Spidey games. Will always love this one. The sequel isn't terrible, but feels like they nerfed the best things from this one.
I distinctly remember how this studio patted itself endlessly on the back for reinventing what had been done better in Spider-Man 2 a console generation before, and acting like they invented it.
was this the first game that introduced collectable suits? i feel like this was the tipping point for what we have now
Spiderman 64 introduced collectable suits with different powers, you had to pick up the suit as "armor" and protect it until the end of the level, if your armor broke you lost the suit forever
I remember the absolute hype for this game in 2012.
It’s crazy to me that they somehow acquired Rhys Ifans’ likeness, but literally NOBODY else.
I remember being so hype for this game when I was 15
Something about the amazing spiderman game just felt right even swinging on the clouds
IMO, this is one of the better movie tie-in games. Has its flaws. But I enjoyed it unlike the film it’s tied to.
Collecting actual Spider-Man comics that you can read was an awesome little bonus.
Man it’s most definitely nostalgia but I love this game. The vibe was immaculate and I thought the story was fantastic
Favorite web swinging out of all the games i like when they make him more acrobatic
24:44 it's morbin time
Plz man where did u download it from?
Ive replayed this game so many times as a kid truly a underrated gem
Hello. I’m new here and I like your perspective on the game. I remember playing this game a lot on the PS3 when I was in middle school. And I enjoyed it. Good times.
I thought that bat comparison was going a completely different direction.
Damn bro i went from spiderman 2 in 2004 straight to the 2018 spiderman game ... Didnt touch or see anything else in the middle ... I feel blessed ... Ill go finish miles Morales