![]() ![]() On the other hand, there's a really excellent What If.? quality to watching other Marvel heroes and villains get incorporated by Venom symbiotes. Even worse, the game kicks off with Spider-Man getting back together with his original goop suit with a nonchalance that belies his troubled history with it. The idea that Venom could just up and decide to start replicating himself, populating the island of Manhattan with teeming millions of other symbiotic beasties, is an infuriating one, and it's something that the game never even bothers to try and justify. ![]() ![]() The plot of Web of Shadows, which revolves around Venom's plan to overtake the city with his symbiotic spawn, is a dichotomous thing, serving to both tickle and enrage Spider-Man fans. Shaba's Spider-Man: Web of Shadows is probably the closest any game has come to realizing that ideal, though as much fun as it is to watch Peter Parker's alter-ego run effortlessly up the sides of skyscrapers and use his web-spinners to get up-close and personal with his foes in some inventive ways, it gets old. As if New York weren't dirty enough!It would seem that the elusive balance for a good Spider-Man game is to make web-swinging that's fun and intuitive while creating a combat system that plays to Spidey's limber, improvisational fighting style. ![]()
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