Finally finished that Spider-Man: Web of Shadows on the Xbox 360!
Finally, cause it was turning a bit repetitive at the end.
I kinda like those recent Spider-man games for the "being Spider-man in New York" aspect. Yes even the movie games. But they aren't very good, it's a fact. Treyarch, responsible for most of them since the first movie and billed as co-developer on this last one, are getting a bit lazy each new game...
This game should have used some little Arkham Asyleum aspects. Not talking gameplay-wise or spirit, this is Spidey afterall.. But on the development aspect of the game.
Like using actual Spider-writers.
The plot was pretty bad and stupid (I'm sure 12 years old will love the symbiote/Venom/dark suit aspect of the game... but seriously, I couldn't count the plotholes on my hand nor the absurdly bad written dialogue!)
And the game could have used some past Spider-man cartoon voice actors. Only Wolverine (dubbed by the same guy from the Wolverine & the X-men cartoon series) was good, I mean really good. And compared to his acting, the others sounded reaaaally bad, I mean worse than they actually were. And Spider-man, who's the main character in this, huh, spider-man game, was sooo bad..... Arg...
It seems like they voice acted the scenes in chronological order. The game started really bad, with a Spidey not sure he was voicing him good then went a bit geeky and over the top.. but got kinda average/ok around the end. So I started a new game (to unlock the new game + mode) and realized how bad he truly was at the start of the game... yuck....
Oh yeah, and the game box totally makes you think Venom would join your side as your Dark ally like Wolverine does for the good side... but since he's the one causing all this (totally out of character too), he's only the Godzilla-like final boss (King Ghidorah-style).
I would kinda have prefered they use another symbiote, say Carnage, as the one causing all the trouble and have Eddie Brock join and help Spidey instead! That way it would have been 1) true to the character's personality and 2)totally kickass for kids, I'm sure they would have loved Carnage in this
Oh, and I played me some Puzzle Bobble 2 the other day.
Also known as Bust-A-Move 2.
Really fun game^___^
Tought I should share this pic with ya:
Yes, making your own Puzzles is totally fun and they don't even turn out easy all the time once you try them. (mostly because of the random colours you may get)
Playing this on the Sega Saturn, in case you're wondering.
I've been reading the Ghost Omnibus Volume 2 lately.
She's a nice original character from Dark Horse. The comic book publisher that not only makes a ton of comic adaptations (Terminator, Predator, Aliens, Star Wars, Serenity, etc..) but created a lot of very imaginative characters which were brought alive in movies with more or less success along the years (The Mask, Hellboy, Sin City, Barb Wire, Mystery Men...)
But I'm not here to talk to you about Ghost right here, nope.
But X.
X... for...X-cellent deep storyline with complex character development and X-traordinary writing?
What or Who is X exactly???
The most insance X-TREME character I've seen in a comic book in a long time....
You know, during the 90s, when comics went all X-TREME with comic artists/writers such as Rob Liefeld and Todd McFarlane.. Well, DC had their darker and grittier enemies like Darkseid or Bane defeat both Superman and Batman, Marvel went nuts into X-Force and many other spinoff titles around gun crazy mutants like Cable and such..
X was Dark Horse answer to the super popular Image Comics character Spawn.
X-TREME!!!
But allow me to read (write) you a little official description of X:
"[The] Dark Horse series that made "grim and gritty" superheroes seem like cuddly plush toys. Violent and morally ambiguous, X walks the thin line between heroism and obssession (...), the cure may be worse than the disease..."
That's right. He makes grim and gritty looks like plush toys.
That guy's insane!
You gotta love the over the top, insane level of X-TREME comics went on during the 90s...
I don't really know this character that much, and honestly don't really wanna read his own series, but the few issues he's guest-starred in Ghost were more than enough to me to know how X-TREME he really is!!
Look at the guy! He lost one eye, has a cape that would make Spawn jealous, use tons of guns, never dies, walks over fire with no problem whatsoever despite his leather costume... he's X-TREME!!!
Oh, and you gotta admire the guy's costume. A lock at his neck. And just imagine him every morning tying all the red laces...
And is that... a corset???
But you gotta admit he's a pretty good "Wolverine". Love his voice!
ReplyDeleteI only wish they coulda kept Peter Parker voice from Spectacular Spider-man as well.
His voice in Web of Shadows is so awful..so horrible...so...bad.
X' costume screams X-TREME all over it!
He's such an X-TREME badass...