The “Amazing” Spider-Man Video Game in 2023
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I want you to imagine you’re back in 2004, as a young Spider-Man fan. You were just blessed with Spider-Man 2, which was a banger, and the next year you’d get to play Ultimate Spider-Man, which was also good. Now imagine your disappointment when Spider-Man 3 rolls around and you get this. Needless to say, the Spider-Man reputation took a hit. BUT, it was redeemed. Spider-Man Web of Shadows released the next year and while it had some issues with level design, it still provided a great open world Spider-Man game with swinging that many still consider the best. Then we got the more linear but no less great Shattered DImensions, and then Edge of Time. While many appreciate the games now, at the time the scores were not friendly. Then, with the announcement of the new cinematic reboot titled The Amazing Spider-Man, we also received a movie tie in game. Given the history, colour me sceptical.
Things have changed since the last few Spider-Man games. Most notably, things have changed with Batman. Since the release of Web of Shadows, the last open world Spider-Man game we received, the Arkham Series was already off the ground and we had both Asylum and City to solidify the dark knight's seat on the throne atop the superhero genre. Spider-Man needed change, and the developers were acutely aware of the last few games disappointing numbers. This game had aims of taking a more realistic approach like the movie, but as you’ll see, that vision is left unfulfilled. What we ended up with was a game that at the time, I loved. One with genuinely incredible animations, fun enough gameplay, and traversal that on one hand is the most shallow and accessible, but on the other, is so unique with an arguably unintended amount of depth, that I can help but love it. It’s a game that holds little back and truly allows the player to experience more consistent large stakes battles.
The Amazing Spider-Man is a 2012 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man and sharing the title of the character's longest-running comic book series of the same title. It is the fourth theatrical Spider-Man film produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Entertainment, a reboot of the series following Sam Raimi's 2002-2007 Spider-Man trilogy, and the first of the two The Amazing Spider-Man films. The film was directed by Marc Webb and written by James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves from a story by Vanderbilt, and stars Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker / Spider-Man alongside Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, Martin Sheen, and Sally Field. In the film, after Parker is bitten by a genetically altered spider, he gains newfound, spider-like powers and ventures out to save the city from the machinations of the Lizard.
The Amazing Spider-Man is an open world video game based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man and the 2012 film of the same name. It was developed by Beenox and published by Activision. It was released on June 26 in North America and on June 29, 2012 in Europe for the Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Android, iOS, and Microsoft Windows. A version for the Wii U was released in March 2013 in North America and Europe known as The Amazing Spider-Man: Ultimate Edition in both regions. A PlayStation Vita version was released in November 2013. A sequel, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, was released in April 2014, itself based on the film.
The (not so) Amazing Spider-Man Game. The Amazing Spider-Man is the latest open world follow up to Spider-Man Web of Shadows. This video will not be The Amazing Spider-Man Review of the film but a The Amazing Spider-Man Game Review. This Spider-Man Game Review or The Amazing Spider-Man Critique or The Amazing Spider-Man Analysis is another part of the That Boy Aqua Spider-Man retrospective. That Boy Aqua will cover the infamous The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Game and answer why many felt that The Amazing Spider-Man Bad or why they were some of the Worst Spider-Man Game. The Amazing Spider-Man Years Later is still fun, but the Amazing Spider-Man Game falls below other Spider-Man games. - Hry
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Not gonna lie, that was the best ad format i´ve seen in a while 😂
Ok.
Can you do the second game?
I always liked how your suit in this can gradually become more ripped as you take damage
It's good that they added battle damage into Spider-Man Miles Morales.
That was one of the details I actually really like about the game.
Man, I am taking a stinky shit right now. Lord have mercy
@@Kx_xKGrow a beard? Canonically all Arkham games take place over the space of a few hours lol
Yea
This is still one of my favorite Spidey games. The storyline, damage suits, combat, web rush were dope af.
It is one of the best spidey games
I played this game so much as a kid and thought the traversel system was fun not the best but still fun
Dude is just a well articulated gamer who does his best to exemplify why he loves or likes the games he does, while also keeping a pretty critical mind of the game and why others have issues with the game in question. Even the 2+ hr Arkham videos can get me to enjoy the commentary.
Yeah, I put Aqua in the same place as The Golden Bolt, both are honest in their opinions, but never afraid to express obvious pros and cons about the games they review.
Ok
I love when he talks about Peter screaming while webswinging because his scream is specifically only on the left ear and my left earbud is broken so I just heard a bunch of air
that's sad, so much for science
24:51 Yes, near the end of TASM 1 they're not on talking terms but in last scene with them before the final swing their path to reconciliation is foreshadowed. Due to the fact that by the start of TASM 2 they are on talking terms it makes sense that they would've worked through things by this point, considering that the game takes place of few weeks/months after TASM 1.
LOL I have seen both movies multiple times and yet I totally forgot about that ending scene in TASM 1. Thanks for the correction
I remember playing this game on the Nintendo 3DS. I’m still surprised that they were able to get all the single player levels working on the 3DS and they only had to cut out the open world.
Heck, they even got fairly high quality cutscenes in the game.
Honestly, thinking about playing the game makes me so nostalgic. I don’t know how they managed to keep all of those titan bossfights intact. Don’t know what the hell happened to the second game though. The game is a grey, 2D, side scroller, look it up.
They made a vita version that I found really impressive in the day.
@@somethinsimple1234 Really? They really released this game on everything
The web rush is the one thing I missed a lot in the insomniac game, the swinging is beautiful but it just feels slow compared to the 2 games before it, both amazing Spider-Man games nailed the swinging speed perfectly
i RARELY ever see any praise towards these games, and this was a welcome sight to see! i think i might replay these two games
@@telegraam_thatboyaqua god fucking damnit, a bot
This intrigues me because I always felt this was the best Spider-Man game (overall) until Insomniac's 2018 game. Been many years though. Perhaps if I replayed it I would not feel that way.
I do remember liking the stealth in this game way more than the 2018 game. I also liked that it took place after the movie, rather than being a retelling.
Also the sequel (TASM 2) sucked for the most part lol. It was somehow worse than the movie. Simultaneously a sequel to the first movie, the first game, a retelling of the movie sequel, and its own thing. Such a mess.
I'd say, on a plot level, TASM2's only real problem is that the trying to retell the film. For the most part it is a pretty decent story of Peter facing Kraven, Kingpin and Carnage in a way that makes it feel like the writers wanted to do their own original story, but then late in the game someone went "Oh f**k guys, this is meant to tie into the film" and they quickly threw in Max and Harry.
I've always felt that it would've worked better if, instead of starting with Uncle Ben death #87, the game had started with a boss battle against Rhino, effectively picking up where the film left off, erasing Harry as working with Kingpin and just having Fisk fund the task force himself, or replacing Harry with Donald Menken, put Carnage's breakout as what forces Peter to abandon the assault on Fisk's compound, and then just, at two points in the story, had Peter flash back to Harry and Max if they really need the film's villains in the game.
Edit: On reflection it could also strengthen the crimewave plot, because Peter, as well as some of his critics, could blame the crimewave on Spider Man's absence after Gwen's death (it's been almost a decade I'm not putting a spoiler warning)
@@medafan53
OMG, YES! This is exactly what the game should've been like. I always felt that Sony told Beenox to remake the movie instead of just letting them do their thing like the first game.
They don't even have Gwen in the story, which might be a clue they were going to make a sequel to the movie, not to mention the Carnage plot that was meant to be Gwen in the 3rd movie, and the whole russian plot that connects Rhino, Kraven and Chameleon, 3 members of the Sinister Six that were also meant to be in the 3rd movie.
the web rush was so good. When you run on top of a building then jump and spin like a movie. Also little things like helping people to hospitals or saving people from fires were great
The thing I loved the most about both Amazing Spider-Man 1 and 2 was the Web Rush. The animations and fluidity of them was always so cool to me.
Back when I first got this game, I could swear it looked exactly like Spiderman PS4
I bought the Vita version of this game a few years back and have fond memories playing it on the snowy days at work.
I especially loved collecting all the comic book pages and even got the platinum trophy!
Yes I had the Vita version too. It was cool and I love the depth they were able to put in it for a portable game just like the console one too
I've been watching you for a while and I was always feeling... happy that there's someone who has similar thought about these video games. I've started this year's my university journey and now, after watching your videos, I am impressed that you are able to create such complex and well thought "review". I can't even call them reviews, these are professional works. I sound like I'm praising a devine being... ha. I just wanna say that I enjoy watching your videos. I might not always leave a comment but I'm always having a good time.
Hey I recently got hooked to your channel through your web of shadows video and I love how in depth your videos are, it’s nice to see someone shed some light on the games I played as a kid.
This game was my GAME when I first got it back in 2012 on my birthday! I remember the web rush mechanic being the most hyped thing for me when I first read about it in Game Informer all that time ago!
When I finally got to playing it and using the mechanic, I thought it was the best thing ever put into a Spider-Man game. Finally, Spider-Man was moving like something out of the movies!
On that same note, I loved the combat for the same reason. I loved how it really felt like a uniquely Spider-Man way to fight the enemies, and in such a cinematic way.
I became legitimately obsessed with this game for a month straight and 100%d the game just because it was "THE Spider-Man experience" and nothing else compared for a while.
I could keep going on, but I doubt anybody's read even this far, let alone going to read more than this.
well 4 peple liked your comment. im currently playing it on pc
@@B.W_edits Just three, actually 😓
@@noahdavis7406 it was 4 when i liked though
Oh man, I love the fact you made a serious critique of a “movie license” type game. I’d genuinely love to see this approach for “James Cameron’s Avatar” and “LOTR: War in the North”
War in the north is a classic lol
Beenox's games always had fanservice and there was a clear sense that they cared about Spider-Man, it's just their yearly time crunch always limiting the amount of polish they could put onto their games. I don't think the Amazing Spidey games would have been Insomniac level, but the games could probably have been better with more development time.
It was my favorite game at the time, and still is as I've grown older, yes, there's hits and misses, pros and cons, but it'll always be one of my favorite Spider-Man games.
The music and the boss battles were the best part, and the web zip felt great.
To be fair, the PS3 and 360 version of Spider-Man 3 was supposed to be the version the devs supposedly put more effort in. The PS2 and Wii version was an afterthought and wanted to captalize on PS2 and Wii owners, I am not even sure if the 360 and PS3 version is any better, I barely remember it.
But as for this game, I played it many years back and I recall kind of liking it, but it suffers from all your typical movie tie in game problems, good but half baked ideas that the devs had no time to flesh out due to releasing on the movie's release date. I do think this game by comparison fares better than the Amazing Spider-Man 2 game. I am glad the era of superhero movie tie in games is over even if crap like Gotham Knights, Avengers and the upcoming Suicide Squad game can somehow get made.
Bro, I absolutely LOVE this game. So what if the side missions seem too overwhelming? I find joy in just swinging around the city and playing through the game again and again. I don’t know what it is, man, but it’s favorite game of all time lmao
I remember that I once bought the ASM2 game on the 360 because it was on sale for like 2 dollars. One of the only spiderman games I had played at the time but holy shit I had a blast
I have no idea why in the console version of the game, you need to take pictures of spider symbols across the city to unlock the different suits. But on PC, you need to do a bunch of extra stuff. Makes me glad I still have it on my ol' Xbox 360.
I remembered playing this game when I was younger and I really appreciated the new traversal, the camera angle and specially that the game had a unique original story that ocurred after the movie events
The Amanzing spiderman 1 game is personally one of my favorite Spiderman games I played
i still love this game! the combat animations are so brutal
How did u get the game ?
@@user-wf1to2yb4r I still have my xbox 360 copy
I’m 34 and have played every spidey game since ps1. I’ve enjoyed them all but this one was really something special. Probably my favorite thing from the Amazing era.
my favorite youtuber easily, most of the games you cover i’ve never played but i still like to hear your thoughts on them and a couple of them i’ve even played because of your videos. keep it up
Lol this was the best looking Spider-Man game at the time it was released, if you ignore webs attached to clouds this is the most cinematic looking web swinging in any Spider-Man game.
I just got this game for my old 360 the other day and played the entire game in a day, i went so far as to change my console date to collect every suit aside from the DLC, after finishing the game i spent hours messing around with the web rush and swinging and pulling off some really cool cinematic swings and zips, overall i love this game and if not for ur review i would not have got it
One hill I will die on in regards to this game is that it does mid-air webshooting way better than the 2018 game. In this one you go in a kind of dive and can shoot while keeping some momentum while in the 2018 one you just stop mid-air and lose all momentum
24:57
If you remember at the end of the first movie Peter basically says that promises are meant to be broken indicating his willingness to break the promise he made to her father.
And at the beginning of the second movie they're back together
One of those games I like to return to at least once a year, still love how it is treated like a sequel for the movie. WHen I first heard about the robot boss fights, I was kinda dissapointed but at the end they are the best part of the game and I freakin love em
I still have nightmares of the Johnny Storm races too... I wake up with my palms in cold sweat!
Man you unlocked a memory with the Johnny Storm races in Ultimate Spider-Man. Those 4 races brought me to the doorstep of madness. Also you were playing that music from the Beetle chase with Spider-Man and I never knew how much I missed it
btw how do you beat johny thesecond time
@@B.W_edits Man I did these like a decade ago but I remember a big key to these races was air control, as in controlling the web zips and timing that second jump you get in order to do another web zip. I would swing to keep my speed but if I zipped too far it could also break my momentum so I could turn quick
@@donovanbowman8157 oh thanks
Youre the only person that actually appreciates what makes every old spiderman good from a gamplay standpoint. So many people who go back to these games either dismiss or glaze over the gameplay mechanics
I remember playing this game, I enjoyed some of the good bright spots in this title even some features had nice super hero spider-man animation's I wish peter and miles could pull of in the insomniac games.
I love the flying comic book pages in this game, we need it back for later titles by insomniac chances are they might not do it but hey it's worth a shot.
I love this game, it was my first Spider-Man game, and I just started playing it again, and it's just as good as I remember! Also, I really like the story, it's very clever how they did it!
13:54 What makes up for the Johnny Storm races is the fact that Johnny drinks water reengineered from piss
Played this game years ago and finished it in one day. Damn the nostalgia.
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I played this when I was younger, and loved it. I recently revisited it. I didn't enjoy it as much, but I think it still holds up.
Favorite web swinging out of all the games i like when they make him more acrobatic
The web rush is the best part of this game.
Damn man that swinging still looks super dope I like the way the camera zooms in while do some cool swing motion or running along a wall
17:30 made me think of death stranding
I just played this game first time ever. I was very engaged to the story and enjoyed the game play. I liked that the game was not too long and completed the game 100%. Rare games I feel I completed and experienced completely. Its not difficult but still good game. Not all games needs to be overly challenging.
I remember when the game came out my grandfather, mum and I went everywhere to find it I finally got it and I was so happy now that my grandfather has passed away I look on it fondly as a great memory
One of the best feature in this game is when you take more and more damage your suit gets more damaged or ripped. Many game comapnies dont even bother about this
Never played the console version but 3DS version was my first Spider-Man game. Looks like it's mostly the same game. A lot of the problems are more forgivable on the weaker handheld though.
I loved this game as a kid. I wanted to get the dlc characters but didn’t have my own money
This definitely set the ground for the swinging animations and combat in the 2018 one
the one thing i prefer in this game to insomniac's is the web shooting and how fluid it is when free falling. I hate freezing in mid air when shooting out some webs
I think this game also did combat animations better than insomniac
@@calebmcclure3893yeah no. Insomniac improved on the combat in these games. The combat in the ASM games feels clunky af
@@calebmcclure3893wrong
Spider-Man 2 is probably the most fluid traversal system across any game ever made… so I really do disagree lol. I played the 2012 amazing Spider-Man game and it freezes you and limits you exponentially more when it comes to web swinging
Great video as always man!
Ah the ultimate weekend rental kind of game.
This and edge of time are my fav Spiderman games of my childhood
Hello. I’m new here and I like your perspective on the game. I remember playing this game a lot on the PS3 when I was in middle school. And I enjoyed it. Good times.
I remember the absolute hype for this game in 2012.
the first spider-man game i ever played was the 3ds version of TASM. i remember always being jealous of other consoles for their ability to free roam 😂
Maaaan but honestly it did really well for what it had to work with 3d environments same combat unlike the sequel on it
I just finished a replay of this game and we get this immediately after. I'm convinced this man is stalking me now.
I remember spending hours playing Edge of Time, but this game and Arkham City were the first games I no-lifed.
This and arkham was my middle school era. So many good games on that ps3
Can't wait for the Second Game Review
I played this on the Vita… it was an experience of all time.
One thing I liked about these games was suit damage within fights. Wish if it was in insomniacs spider-man games
it's insinuated (and later confirmed in tasm2) that peter took aunt may's advice and gets back together with aunt may. so they are together between films
pure nostalgia game played it again a few weeks ago and made me feel like I was still sneak playing it at 3 am again.
I believe Insomniac looked the Amazing SM games and went "what if these games and the Arkham games were combined?" And I really miss the web rush and web retreat option/feature in insomniac SM games.
So you cover a lot of AAA games from the 360 era and sequels to them. But what are some of your favourite indie games? And are you willing to cover them some day?
Damn bro i went from spiderman 2 in 2004 straight to the 2018 spiderman game ... Didnt touch or see anything else in the middle ... I feel blessed ... Ill go finish miles Morales
Does we keep forgetting the fact, that the guy who composed TASM game is the same one who composed most of God of War's Greek Saga.
I knew the composer of the music from this game had to be good. The overworld's music is just out of the world.
Edge and amazing had me malding in those tight rooms in the start
Honestly back then I enjoyed the amazing spider-man games a lot but did hate the swinging but that was really my only complaint. The Web Rush mechanic tho was so cool tho
Man it’s most definitely nostalgia but I love this game. The vibe was immaculate and I thought the story was fantastic
I wish they would've Done the Comic Book version of the Black suit
Just beat this game for the first time. Really good voice acting and diolouge.
It's not a game I'll ever go back and play, but I really enjoyed it at the time. I remember when it released and it truly felt like "the next gen Spider-Man game"
I'm going back through the game, for the first time in like 10 years. I love this game, but one thing that always stuck with me was how piss easy it was. So for this playthrough I'm doing something a little different. I'm playing it on the hardest setting, Super-Hero, and it REALLY surprised me. The game is actually offering a decent challenge. Nothing too BS, no cheap deaths, no having to cheese the enemy just to make it through, just a good challenge to keep me on my toes. It honestly feels like this was the difficulty mode it was designed for and balanced around. I HIGHLY recommend giving it a try. ALL the enemies hit a LOT harder, can knock out out in two or three good hits, but don't feel spongy. The result is making the player feel like a real glass cannon, just like a good Spider-Man game should.
Thats why there is different difficulty levels in games. First time, you just want to enjoy the story and learning/discovering things in game and second time you wanna challenge yourself with hard difficulty. So, nothing to complaine about that in my opinnion.
I remember playing this as a kid and being terrified by the lizard
i still remember pirating this when i was 12 and playing the game. loved it because i was a kid that just wanted to be spider man and the gave me the spectacle i wanted. I also remember thinking this game had the greatest story there ever was. i also got a trojan with the game as a bonus 10/10 would pirated again
I got the amazing Spider-Man 2 game when I was twelve and I loved it, if it wasn’t for the load time I would probably still play it today
IMO, this is one of the better movie tie-in games. Has its flaws. But I enjoyed it unlike the film it’s tied to.
Collecting actual Spider-Man comics that you can read was an awesome little bonus.
im pretty sure all of the story inconsistencies are just because the game developers hadnt actually seen the movie while developing most of it
After all these years, I never knew this game had DLC, lol!
i love your reviews aqua!
Honestly that intro going through most of the spider-man games and their reputation to set the scene is great, and I agree with the points about this game.
Minor points about SM3, I played the 360 version waaay before I discovered SM2, I mean SM3 was my first spidey game. The ps2 SM3 does majorly suck, it's really bad, however it plays well on the psp. The vita version of TASM is the same as the console game open world and all, just with a crunchy layer of compression. Pairing both on my vita they're in my opinion the best portable open world spider-man games if you ignore that the steam deck can play basically every single spidey game to date
for the time this game was very fun, couldn’t ask for much more
I absolutely love the suit getting damaged, I think miles morales also does it well but it’s not as good as the battle damage progression in this game and the sequel
As a movie tie in goes, this is the best of the PS3 era.
Played this for a month str8 replaying the rooftop fight cause i liked swing around on my 3ds
I remember being so hype for this game when I was 15
HuhHHH? whitelight releases a video yesterday and that boy aqua follows up with one today, i'm ever so slightly happier :>
Will you be doing a vid for the second game
that ad was amazing
Once in a while I come back to this game because it reminds me of my childhood so much
I absolutely LOVED THIS GAME it was my favorite spiderman game before the new ones however i dont have the game myself anymore im still looking to get it but idk where 😂
Who else liked this game and the first game Alistair Smythe and his spider Slayers robots were incredible Mainly the Villains Animal variants I loved this villain
it's a shame that in the end he doesn't come back and dies
A curiosity in the 1st game is the concept arts and in this Second Game it was supposed to have Kraven hunting the virus variants Animals and we would have the First game,the Lizard transforming everyone In the city in the final fight into Reptiles in the 1st game but it was cut from the story And also in 1 Game and in this one we would have Doctor octopus,Rhino,Scorpion,Iguana,Vermin,Wolf-Man,Morbius and Vulture animals monsters Species crossing They Return Like Villains being hunted And dead by Kraven And we would still have others human villains that were cut like: The gang war between Hammerhead vs Mister Negative Boss battle for us to fight
And others boss fights That were cut
The Enforcers,Chameleon,The Hood,Mysterio,the Rose,Sandman and Hydroman In this second game And we would even have more scenes from the prison that we visit and there would be several cells with the names of each of the villains That we would face and put them there and even the prison of the Kingpin,Carnage,Electro among others And the Shocker along with Curt Connors would be in this prison with others villains names appearing but it was removed from the final product
And We would have The Venom,Jackal With the Clone Saga + Sinister Six is the mains villains of the 3rd game
It's a shame that all of this was removed but Alistair Smythe remains the best villain of all and for me the first game is incredible And it would be interesting if there was a 3rd game to close this saga and with all these Villains that were not used UwU 🥺😎👍 like and Bye!
4:55 wtf was that line? 💀
If that was actually in the game then I’m laughing my ass off