User blog comment:Hawkeye2701/Review4U: Spider-Man: Web of Shadows/@comment-4651179-20140102234511

Excellent review.

In the decision you said I would be disappointed I did chose the opposite, but I can't blame you.

The fighting gameplay of this game is awesome. The combos, and the differences between fighting with each suit is incredible, a pity this game didn't get a lot of good reviews.

The free-roam is the best part of the game. Although it lacks some landmark buildings like the Chrysler Building, New York feels awesome. And it's really funny seeing how even in the middle of an apocalypse, Times Square is still functioning. But the end of the world atmosphere is well done. I specially love, like I mentioned in my comment on your Ultimate Spider-Man review, the fact that you can basically destroy everything but entire structures. A lamp post? Thud, it's not there. A fence? Paf, it's not there. A newsstand? Pow, the newspaper are scattered in the air. Even the facade of a building? Thump, destroyed. I just love the destructability this game possess.

The game has a load of easter eggs, not only the Stark Tower and Sentry's Watchtower, but there are also Stark Industries ads in the city, there are Johnny Storm adds sponsoring a garage, Dazzler concert pamphlets, Hydra recruitment pamphlets, A.I.M. ads, the Baxter Building with spider tokens forming a four in its rooftop, when you destroy a newsstand, the newspapers scattered in the air have first pages from the movies, and in Times Square there's a Daily Bugle ad related to the SRA. I think there's even a Lobster-Man ad, that movie Mary Jane starred in the comics.

Still, I feel the city events could've been better, like in Spider-Man 2 or Ultimate Spider-Man.

The designs for the characters were great, specially Electro, and the symbiote designs are excellent as well.

Oh, and props for using Moon Knight and Luke Cage, it's weird to see B-listers guest starring a super hero game, considering previous Spider-Man games have had Captain America, Daredevil and others.

This makes me want to websling a little bit across New York again.