Every Choice Counts: Dependant on the gamer's actions and decisions, a morality meter will gauge whether citizens cheer Spider-Man on or run away in fear.

The player may simply switch between outfits, allowing him to combat evil enemies as either the red Spidey using his web or the black Spidey using the symbiote’s tentacles. While entirely optional and not required for completing the game, these events reward the player with XP, which can be used to unlock new fighting moves/combos for Spider-Man. As you fight enemies and help or harm citizens, your Special bar will fill up, and when it fills, by pressing down on the D-Pad, you can summon an ally into battle along-side you to help you fight battles.

Points awarded during battle can be used across unique paths to upgrade the Red Suit and Black Suit, allowing players complete control over the style and moves they take into combat. He is then informed by Nick Fury that the sonic generator is on the top of Fisk Tower, so he goes there to combine the parts he collected to a super-computer, completing the generator. In a mediocre game, such flaws would cripple the product; in Web of Shadows, they simply make a great game somewhat harder to recommend. The gameplay of Web of Shadows is, in many respects, reminiscent of older games in the franchise, though many of the elements are much, much different, and this is mostly for the better. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience.

When a deadly symbiote invasion devastates the streets of New York City, only Spider-Man can seize control and bring the city salvation. Spider-Man Web of Shadows is a third-person action-adventure video game set in an open-world outer area of Manhattan. Claiming that he had nothing to do with the generator's theft and that it's too late to stop the symbiotes, Smythe then unleashes a mind-controlled Black Cat to kill Spider-Man, who either frees her from Smythe's control, or lets the mind-controlling device kill her so that he can take it for himself. Now, in fairness, more than a few of the terrible games based on the character were thanks to Acclaim, but even after Activision picked up the license, a few stinkers hit the ground running.The DS version of the game controls in a similarly intuitive way, though there are no ally summons or buffs to use mid battle. During the evacuation, Wolverine gets infected by a symbiote, but Spider-Man defeats and rescues him, potentially ripping him in half under the black suit's influence.

However, Black Cat is severely injured in the process, forcing Spider-Man to leave her in Mary Jane's care, or infect her with a symbiote to heal her, which upsets Mary Jane.

The choice system has been redesigned to only consist of players choosing which mission to undergo next. Depending on which reply is chosen, the player will receive upgrade points for Spider-Man's red suit, black suit, or both. For one thing, Spider-Man earns experience points as you complete missions, which can be devoted to upgrading his various ground/aerial/special/whatever attacks as you deem appropriate, across both costumes. Gamers Control Their Fighting Experience: At a moment's notice, gamers can switch between the agile grace of Spider-Man's Red Suit and the savage power of the Black Suit, creating some of the most devastating combos ever seen in a Spider-Man game. The only voice that’s particularly annoying is, unfortunately, the voice of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, who’s trying to sound like Tobey Maguire but instead sounds whiny, though he does grow on you eventually.