Bought the Spiderman: The Movie game from BB for $19.99 Thursday night, took it home and installed it, played it for a few hours trying to get used to the horrible camera views and awkward game play, and finally took the CD out of the tray and threw it across the room. I will NOT be wasting any more time with this sh@tty game. DO NOT fool yourself into thinking that this game works like Max Payne or some other really good third-person type games!!
I even went through the training sessions to see if I was just doing something wrong, but no, it's just really that bad. The problem is that you can't keep the camera in the right position behind you no matter what setting you have the camera on. You get into a fight with four or five guys and you swing around to hit the one behind you but the camera stays put so you can't actually see the guy you're swinging at until he's right on you and hitting you.
The reason this works so badly is because you essentially don't use the mouse for movement. It isn't like all the FPS games where you use the mouse for spinning side to side and looking up and down. All the motion is with the WASD keys and you have your other hand on the keypad to control hitting, kicking, web swinging, and all the other nifty web features you use for movement or in combat. So this means that you need a third hand to stay on the mouse, which only control the camera angle. You can manually move the camera POV to one that will help you see what you're looking at, but imagine doing that in the midst of battle and you'll see why this sucks.
But it isn't just annoying in battle, it also seems to never be able to focus on what you need to see even when you're just running through the map. You run down the hall and make a 90-degree right turn to another hall but the camera stays in the same position so now you are looking at your right side and can't see what's in front of you anymore. How stupid is that?? The game has a setting that is supposed to automatically get the camera tracking correctly, but it does not work. Go read the Game Spot review and they even hated this aspect, although they mysteriously gave the game a fairly high score anyway.
Oh, okay, one more thing. Here's one more reason I would NOT continue to waste time with this game even if the camera angle thing worked correctly -- you can't save your game until the end of a mission. This sucks as bad as the SWAT series in that way. I don't know about you, but when I play a game I save ALL THE FRIGGIN' TIME. I just got done with Jedi II and MOH:AA and made it through those by hitting save about every minute or so. I'm a long-time action game player and nowadays I simply refuse to even mess with games that don't let me save. There's nothing that makes me homicidal like making it to the end of a complicated level, dying while fighting the very last boss character at the end, and then having to redo 30 minutes of game play just to take another shot at the boss. That is SUPREMELY STUPID!!
Okay, I'm done now.
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