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POSTED
21/5/14
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2
Actlvision
        
Rush...
Not prog rock.
Not either of two Australian TV series’,
one a period drama, the other a cop show.
Not the Big Audio
Dynamite song.
Not a movie about F1 drivers.
Not a fwoosh of exhilaration.
No meaning of the word other than hurry.
That’s what
The
Amazing Spider-Man 2 smells of – hurriedness.
It takes much
that featured in The Amazing Spider-Man without the ‘2’ sticky-taped
upon its tuckus, which was a kinda Spidey-themed remix of
Prototype,
and tweaks the recipe.
You’ve an open world NYC
full of shit to do. You’ve main missions, and
help-save-people-from-bag-snatchers or from getting torched side
missions. You collect comics, upgrades, art, costumes and other
assorted bric-a-brac. You wait ages for stuff to load – often. You
visit Stan Lee in his comic shop. You jam quarters into his arcade machine. You
clonk baddies in schnozzes and other places. Ultimately though,
you’re avenging the murder of your Uncle Ben.
As a movie
tie-in, the apron strings are quite loose. It takes some story then
goes its own way. But the controls! Many will rejoice that webs
can’t magically adhere to the sky anymore. But in practice it gives
you the shits quicker than a dodgy curry. R2 shares functionality
with running and web-splooging. Run up a building and you’ll
ejaculate random webs everywhere as you go. Those Spidey suits
aren’t cheap to dry clean you know...
It’s serviceable,
albeit about as next-gen as faxing. Still, those undemanding types
who really dug the last one will dig this one. But, frankly, Spidey
deserves more than something blurted out to coincide with a movie
release.
Hey Activision! There’ll always be Spider-Man games.
Why not take a leaf out of Schroeder’s book and keep a cupboard full
of pre-prepared good Spidey outings ready for the next movie
tie-in? Just slap on the film title and Ben’s your dead uncle.
  
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