Boots Nailed To The Ground
HIGH Three distinct game modes!
LOW Two of which feel pretty dang stale.
WTF I’ve no idea what they were aiming for with Frank Woods’ dialogue.
Kotaku's Luke Plunkett recently wrote an opinion piece entitled Why It's Stupid to Hate Call of Duty So Damn Much. Intrigued by the headline (and always a sucker for a well-considered opinion piece to counter the never-ending stream of gaming "list-icles" out there) I decided to see why people were stupid to hate on what is essentially the biggest game franchise in the world at this moment.
When Xbox Live's director of policy and enforcement, Stephen Toulouse, stridently vowed to ban any Call of Duty: Black Ops player who sports a swastika emblem online, I can't say I felt any particular way about it. As an fence sitter on the subject of censorship, I much prefer to let others do the hard work of untangling that Gordian Knot.
HIGH: JFK spouting off one-liners while blasting zombies in the face.
LOW: The complete and total incompetence of my squadmates.
WTF: Why does the guy I'm torturing suddenly turn around and help me when the bad guys show up?
HIGH Getting to have a 16-player deathmatch on a faithfully updated version of "Facility" from GoldenEye.
LOW There are stealth sequences. In a first person shooter.
WTF Why is the Golden Gun a rapid-fire grenade launcher?
I would say that I'm a fan of Spider-Man, but I am usually not a fan of Spider-Man games. I have fond memories of web-slinging on the Genesis and Neversoft's entry on the PS1 is still the best adventure to be had with Peter Parker's alter ego, if you ask me. Besides those two outings, old Spidey has been stuck starring in a long string of unsatisfying, unhappy titles.
According to ESRB, this game contains: Language, Violence
So I planned on taking Spider-man 2 (and Gene's review) to task here; planned to gripe about the repetitiveness of the street crimes, the flighty combat, the lousy camera, etc. But…I can't do it.
Spider-man 2 seemed to me like the product of relentless scouring of Internet message boards, videogame reviews and fan input. To be this in tune with the audience is a badge of honor that the intuitive Treyarch developers should wear proudly. As a result, Spider-man 2 is not only the best superhero videogame I've ever played, but also the closest thing to a superhero simulator in existence.
According to ESRB, this game contains: Violence
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