This is the first Spider-Man game I've played proper. Having no good contact with the other ones I didn't have any expectations for it and I ended up enjoying it a lot.
You play through 4 dimensions, each dimension has different Spider-Men and villains selected from the corresponding comics and some original ones, each one also sporting a different visual style and even gameplay gimmicks. There's simple character upgrades like unlocking combos and enhancing health, they need to be unlocked through the completion of challenges each level but none of them are too difficult to get so it is never a chore.
First is the Amazing Spider-Man dimension, with an outlined cel shaded art style and fun villains, gameplay during it is pretty much a basic brawler with Spider-Man powers but it's fun regardless.
Next up comes the 2099 dimension, this one is the biggest reason this game doesn't get 5 stars for me. It has the least interesting villains out of them all (in game, don't know about the comics) and the least interesting visual style with the same color palette everywhere, a futuristic style stereotypical from what people in the 80s thought future technology would look like, not exactly pleasant to the eyes. The gimmick for 2099 Spider-Man is moving fast while time slows down, but it's only situationally useful and doesn't save it from the most dull and least open levels from the game.
Luckily, Noir Spider-Man fairs better, the visual style is pretty much... Noir, and the gameplay gimmick is that you must sneak around in the shadows and take down enemies one by one without being spotted to get through the levels. It's not a very in depth stealth system, but it gets the job done and there's a variety of ways in which you can take down enemies, however there's still some brawling sections and the game doesn't punish you hard at all for being seen in case that kind of stuff bores you too much.
Finally we have the Ultimate Spider-Man dimension, this one sports Spider-Man with the black symbiote suit and has really flashy attacks alongside it, it has the best villains in the game and while the gimmick of powering up strenght with rage that's built up as you fight is simple, it's still pretty much engaging. This dimension also contains the most open levels in the game and they're the ones I had the most fun on as a result.
Lastly, the final boss stage is unfortunately very much a scripted section with kinda dull small fights as you wait for the QTE to defeat the big bad to happen, but it wasn't frustrating or too boring at least so I won't complain much.
Overall the game was fun throughout, only a single 2099 stage made me feel like quitting but completing it was worth it, I'll probably replay it some time in the future just to have some fun.
You play through 4 dimensions, each dimension has different Spider-Men and villains selected from the corresponding comics and some original ones, each one also sporting a different visual style and even gameplay gimmicks. There's simple character upgrades like unlocking combos and enhancing health, they need to be unlocked through the completion of challenges each level but none of them are too difficult to get so it is never a chore.
First is the Amazing Spider-Man dimension, with an outlined cel shaded art style and fun villains, gameplay during it is pretty much a basic brawler with Spider-Man powers but it's fun regardless.
Next up comes the 2099 dimension, this one is the biggest reason this game doesn't get 5 stars for me. It has the least interesting villains out of them all (in game, don't know about the comics) and the least interesting visual style with the same color palette everywhere, a futuristic style stereotypical from what people in the 80s thought future technology would look like, not exactly pleasant to the eyes. The gimmick for 2099 Spider-Man is moving fast while time slows down, but it's only situationally useful and doesn't save it from the most dull and least open levels from the game.
Luckily, Noir Spider-Man fairs better, the visual style is pretty much... Noir, and the gameplay gimmick is that you must sneak around in the shadows and take down enemies one by one without being spotted to get through the levels. It's not a very in depth stealth system, but it gets the job done and there's a variety of ways in which you can take down enemies, however there's still some brawling sections and the game doesn't punish you hard at all for being seen in case that kind of stuff bores you too much.
Finally we have the Ultimate Spider-Man dimension, this one sports Spider-Man with the black symbiote suit and has really flashy attacks alongside it, it has the best villains in the game and while the gimmick of powering up strenght with rage that's built up as you fight is simple, it's still pretty much engaging. This dimension also contains the most open levels in the game and they're the ones I had the most fun on as a result.
Lastly, the final boss stage is unfortunately very much a scripted section with kinda dull small fights as you wait for the QTE to defeat the big bad to happen, but it wasn't frustrating or too boring at least so I won't complain much.
Overall the game was fun throughout, only a single 2099 stage made me feel like quitting but completing it was worth it, I'll probably replay it some time in the future just to have some fun.