This game is surprisingly overrated. Heard so many good things bout it but idk I didn't enjoy it as much. The combat is extremely bad and involves smashing one of two buttons and you have to web the enemies to the ground or they get back up every time which gets so tedious. There is almost nothing to do in the game, all the side stuff is extremely repetitive and none of it is even that good. It's either races or combat tours or just collectibles. The main story itself isn't that great either. There's nothing inherently bad about it but it's just very bland. Also all the missions are just taking out enemies and chasing after bosses and then boss battles. The boss battles themselves aren't great either adding to it is the horrible combat system and the worst part imo was having to complete side stuff if you want to progress in the game. I don't mind if the main story was short but did they really have to pad it out? Since the side content was so tedious, the main story felt really underwhelming for all I had done to get there.

The only cool thing about it was probably the fact that you got to play as venom and the web swinging. Web swinging in this game is surprisingly very good. All the webs attach to surfaces really well and it is very physics based and so you can bump into buildings but I honestly liked it cuz it added punishment if you didn't pay attention and when it worked, oh boy it worked well. The suburbs part of the map wasn't that fun to be in but the main city was really cool to swing around. I think venom was done really well in this game as well and they did not hesitate with adding things like him feeding. Loved his gameplay mechanics and traversal. Also loved the art style and the comic book esque cutscenes.

Overall for 2005 this is a pretty ok game but it's been so overrated in recent times that it felt like a disappointment to me. It's still pretty fun and honestly if it had only a free roam mode with being able to switch between Venom and Spidey and random enemies spawning, I could see myself putting a few hours in just roaming around. Luckily this is very short and I guess if you have nothing else to do give this a play or you can just complete the intro and swing around

Reviewed on Jan 25, 2022


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