The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Man Review

You'll excuse me for damning a game with faint praise, but The Amazing Spider-Man is pretty good for a superhero movie tie-in. This is also the best Spider-Man game to roll off Activision's sturdy assembly line in years, even though that isn't saying very much.This is a perfectly pleasant title, but if you stack The Amazing Spider-Man up against the rest of its genre - such as inFamous, Prototype and Batman: Arkham City - the webslinger's latest outing starts to feel rather thin. Rocksteady's 10/10 scoring smash hit is a particularly great reference point as it's the game The Amazing Spider-Man cribs from the most.Like the caped crusader, Spidey's approach to taking down New York's criminal elements is divided up between confronting them head-on or stealthily subduing them. A combat system that's been lifted wholesale from the Arkham games feels immediately familiar when you go toe-to-toe with your enemies, but what's missing are decent animations and any sense of heft. When Spider-Man attacks a villain he looks like a jerky lucha libre wrestler, and his punches and kicks feel so lightweight you'll be genuinely surprised when his opponents fall down.