Ultimate Spider-man

The super heroes games, like the movies these are represented by, are getting better and better. Although, generally, it is better that a game of this genre to be based on comic books rather than movies in which are portrayed their struggling lives. Compare, for example the games X-Men and Incredible Hulk, based on comic books, with the universe from Fantastic Four and Batman which are inspired by the movies. The differences are clear. The Spider-man series took what is best from both comic books and movies, and even if the first two games contained more elements of the movie, it could not been said that they weren’t good.

Although, in Ultimate Spider-man they focused on the comic books and the improvement is obvious.

This game, presents Peter Parker when he was younger, around the age of 15, shortly after the spider injected him with the miraculous powers. Shortly, Peters is transforming into the famous super hero, and together with his childhood friend Eddie Brock, is finding the special suit on which their fathers were working. Yes, you guessed, it is the suit which transforms Eddie into Venom, the evil monster which Spider-man must face. The producers have introduced some other familiar faces like the human torch and Wolverine, and villains like Carnage, Electro, Green Goblin and of course, Venom.

Ultimate Spider-man finishes with an open final, like the movie Spiderman 2, allowing you to walk around the city hanging from the webs which your favorite hero provides you with in order to meet some secondary missions along New York. Most are checkpoint races, but you will meet some in which you have to fight, to take out brutal gangs, to save hostages or to capture bank robbers.

Spiderman: Friend or foe

After a boring fight which took place in the first stage of the first level of Spiderman: Friend or foe, poor Spidey has accumulated more game experience than we could. “Do you think that this is ruining all the fun, when we are winning all the time?” is asking rhetorically the animated Webcrawler character while we look bored at the screen. Well, not necessary.

The action / adventure game created by Next Level Games and published by Activision began with a unique idea – Spiderman will fight with a lot of mysterious villains with the help of declared enemies created by Marvel. What seams to be a boring story becomes an extraordinary game experience which in the end shows us that Spiderman becomes in some way, his own enemy.

At the beginning of the game, Spiderman is dragged by Colonel Nick Fury from S.H.I.E.L.D. and is brought to on board of a helicarrier for a fast brief of his mission. Somebody seams to be using some symbiotic fragments from meteorites in order to control the minds of the super villains which in exchange are triggering all kinds of chaos and destruction. It is the job for Spiderman to face them, to make them his allies, and with their help to find the brain behind this operation.