Spider Shadows Future War

While the boss battles are among the best I've seen all year, the standard missions leave a bit to be desired. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to suggest that most of the missions have you doing exactly the same thing, which is swinging around the city and beating a certain amount of regular bad guys. The game does throw newer and harder bad guys as you progress through the game, but at the end of the day it's hard not to notice that you're basically just doing the same task over and over. Still, it gives you a chance to try out all of the new moves you purchase with your experience points. The story starts off, interestingly enough, with Spider Web of Shadows Future War running into a reporter for a rival newspaper looking for an exclusive.

Whether you chose to stick around and answer his question or blow him off, your day quickly turns sour when Venom shows up.
A fight erupts and Spidey wins but suddenly the alien symbiote explodes and our hero wakes up with a headache and wearing the Black Suit once again. The game played like a traditional side-scrolling Spider Web of Shadows man game. You can swing around the environment and you can always crawl up walls and ceilings as well. Spiders also makes use of his acrobatic skills and incredible strength as well for when you need to carry a civilian or two out of harms way.

However, in this game you are able to string together all sorts of cool attacks, all while bouncing off of people's heads and using your webbing in cool and original ways. A dialogue box opens up when you encounter a civilian and there are basically two options you can make in the game.

One thing you can't complain about are the visuals, even with the frame drops and technical issues, Web of Shadows is a great looking game. All of the boss characters have their own style and you won't believe how cool the world looks after the invasion has taken hold. There is an impressive amount of detail given to the city, which may be why it's so much fun to swing around in it this time.

I only wish they would take some of the game's potential and push it even further. If this is the future for Spidey then I can't wait to see what comes next, I had a great time with the storyline and loved actually having a choice in what happens to our hero. Small complaints aside, Spider Shadows Future War is a game well worth checking out if you're a fan of action-packed superhero games.