Less great, any veterans of Spider 2 will doubtless spend the best part of a half-hour struggling to get used to the unnecessarily altered control setup: whereas before one had to swing with R2, before pressing X to release and then fire another webline, the new game just requires holding and releasing R2 to move around. The first thing that jumped to my attention was the lovely cell-shading that envelops the entire experience, coupled with the genius use of panels like in a comic, which sees such moments as when characters jump to dodge an attack, fly out of a panel and land in another. Once again developed by Treyarch, the game inevitably shares many of its genes with the company's previous effort. Following in this surprisingly pretty good effort's footsteps is Ultimate Spider-Man, an adaptation of the alternate reality comic of the same name. It is rare that a single feature can save a title, but Spider 2 manages it. You cruise through the city, making use of a near-perfect system for movement that is both easy to pick up and hard to master, meaning that just buggering about in the central hub was far more fun than actually playing through the story.

Spider 2 was that gem: it's badly put together, the combat is repetitive to the max, the boss battles mediocre, and the acting average, but one thing is great: the swinging. But amongst the sludge that is churned out by the industry every year, there's always the one gem. It was the latest in the endless parade of licensed games which were all but guaranteed best-sellers. Ever played the Spider-Man 2 game of the movie? Of course you have, because everybody has.

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