Topic: The Amazing Spider-Man demo

I was extra excited today to read that North America got the Amazing Spiderman demo today on the eshop, After playing it and beating the demo I can't decide rather or not I like it. I also played the edge of time one on the 3ds too and that one bored the life out of me, and I couldn't get into it, quite frankly I haven't been able to get into any spiderman game since SpiderMan 2 which is hands down the best SpiderMan game ever made. The animation feels smooth and the fighting is fun but one thing that always turns me off on these 3DS spiderman games is the visuals for some reason. Spiderman looks great and can almost be comparable to the HD model but the rest of the game feels choppy and has psp visuals, and I understand that graphics don't make a game but they do effect me honestly. As well since the whole city roaming has been completely taken off in the 3DS version, it kind of bummed me out. Has any one else tried out this demo? And if so how do you guys feel about it?

I tried it and was very underwhelmed. The rooms are very basic, the shadows are almost non-existent, button mashing seems the most effective way to fight. Spiderman's model does look great though

Thats basically how I felt, it upsets me alot considering how great some 3DS games look like, like Super Mario Land 3D and Resident Evil Revelations.
I guess im going to just have to buy the 360 version.

Underwhelming I think is an understated way of putting it. It feels very rushed, the camera is wonky and the combat is just boring like the overall design. One of the concerns that I have had with the 3DS retail market is that, now that handheld can basically replicate console visuals, developers and publishers will just try to quickly shove console games onto handhelds instead of making a different version of the game designed for handhelds. This strategy never produces a good game. Bring back Griptonite to make a good handheld Spidey game.

...So it was UN-AMAZING, AMIRITE?

I definitely felt both underwhelmed AND excited. I thought the visuals were god awful though as they reminded me of the Spiderman 2 visuals. Those weren't bad when they came out, but on the 3DS, it looks really...bad. I wish there would be free-roam on the 3DS version because that would make up for it... But as of now...I'm not really interested. Also, that demo was insanely short. Why do I only get 10 plays?

I never buy movie game tie-ins because they usually are cheap cash ins.

Yah the whole 10 plays through me off too considering you normally get 30? Can;t you always redownload the demo again and get 10 new ones? anyways the lack of free roam kind of killed it for me, and the graphics arn't as hot, they put so much detail on spidy's animation and model character and almost none on the enemies or areas. sometimes i wish the 3ds had the graphical horse power of the vita, so atleast it would be nice to stare at -___-

most of them are honestly, but the trilogy wasn't half bad though the spiderman movie games were all pretty good, but 2 was by far the best

The thing that ticked me off was that I only get 10 plays. I haven't even played it yet, so I can't say anything else.

Edit: Just played it, and it's pretty much crap. The camera controls suck, and the combat is just button-mashing. The "boss battle" at the end with Felicia was horrible and took forever, at the end you just crawl around the ceiling with those horrible controls, trying in vain to find her. Ugh.

I liked the moves and slow mo you could do but.. wasn't feeling it.

I like it a bit,i might consider buying it,but i definitely hope this isn't like Spiderman 3 on Wii that game was just horrible,Web of Shadows was fun,Friend or Foe can burn and i never bothered with the newer games.

But i must say Felicia looks weird,i don't really like her costume,i don't remember much of spidey's story,but wasn't she Black Cat? why does her costume look so bad? and actually,why does everything look so bad(aside from Spiderman).The camera definitely needs some work and i hate the addition of the gyro controls for spidey's cam.

I am not completely hating on this,i think it does have potential and i'll just wait for Nintendo Life's review.

and not all movie games are bad,i found Transformers Revenge of The Fallen fun online,aside from the god tier DLC(Jazz owns all).

I had fun with it, but the visuals were pretty off-putting, yeah. I can see the combat getting super monotonous too.

What I really hate? The fact you can only play the demo 10 times! You can't replay the demo after you beat it, you have to close, and re-open the game to play it again.

@Shotgunryugan She isn't the black cat yet. In Nintendo Power's preview, they said she hadn't become the black cat yet. That leads me to think sequels, and new games.
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What? Did you think I meant video game sequels? Well, yeah, but think about movie sequels.

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Do I gotta. The only Spiderman sequels I want to think about are ones done by Raimi. To bad Sony screwed that up.

It wasn't great but it wasn't as bad as I was expecting, either. My expectations for licensed portable games like this are generally really low. The graphics are really ugly and the framerate needs polishing, but I found the combat to be pretty fun in a guilty pleasure sort of way, and I can see how the ability to climb all over the walls and ceiling could make for some interesting exploration elements.

it was boring. still completed the demo.
graphics are almost ps1. lets say PS2 debuts. even there, some ps1 games looked much better.
level design is...bland. environment is bland,brown.no shadows, choppy. models,else than spiderman, look ugly. you can hardly see their details, like if they carry a gun or something. they're a grey mass that moves.

now your telling me there is no outside environment to roam in ? they also cut that ? unbelievable.
its like giving you a transformer game, but your transformers cant transform. its like giving you a mario game without his mustache.
without city roaming, it becomes a regular button masher beat-em up.

anyway, what did you expect from a franchised game. Even more, on a portable device. it was rushed for the gold.
crap, some iphone games look and play beyond that !!

I haven't tried the demo, and I am actually glad I haven't yet. The 10 plays and force resets at the end make it seem like they are forcing you to buy the game.

It's a shame too that they rushed the 3ds version so bad, the console versions look unbelievablely gorgeous and the fighting and roaming looks superb.

It's activision, what do you expect? They ruin the COD games on every system, and usually games like this are only good on 1 system. Sad that they couldn't make the 3DS game great.