In fact, there is no HUD to speak of in The Amazing Spider-Man, or at least there wasn't one on display during the demo. The whole idea behind the feature is fast movement of the non-swinging variety, with a little bit of precision on screen if need be. Picking a specific target can be as precise as players want it to be, but the game also accommodates simply choosing a new target over and over again without actually directing Spider-Man. A glowing silhouette of Spider-Man indicates accessible targets, and executing the move is as simple as a button press. Meant to mimic Spider-Man's 'spidey sense,' Web Rush allows Peter Parker to slow down time and pick key points of interest that he can zip or swing to.

Parker's Manhattan is a breeding ground for villainy, and its up to the player to eliminate as much of it as they can.Īs was mentioned this is the first time a Beenox Spider-Man game has featured free form web-swinging, but there's also a new form of traversal unique to this franchise known as the Web Rush. In Amazing Spider-Man's case, the game picks up after the events of the movie, with Peter Parker having fully assumed the role of the wall crawling crime fighter. Instead Beenox chose to go the same route as Thor and Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and tell a story that exists in that same universe, but either precludes or follows-up the events of the film. Read on for our full E3 demo impressions.įirst and foremost it's best to get this out of the way: The Amazing Spider-Man is a movie tie-in, but it does not tell the same story as Sony's summer blockbuster. However, fans of previous Spider-Man video games will recognize this title as a return to Spidey's roots. Developer Beenox, since being handed the reins to the Spider-Man franchise from Activision, has demonstrated a love for the iconic web-slinger, but have often struggled to capture what makes him appealing.Īt E3 2012 Beenox gave a live demo of The Amazing Spider-Man's open world gameplay, a first for this particular era of the series. After delivering one solid Spider-Man outing with Shattered Dimensions, but then faltering quite a bit with their execution on Edge of Time, it was hard to evaluate what The Amazing Spider-Man might turn out to be.

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