The Spider-Man films saw a reboot in 2012, retelling Peter Parker’s early adventures to some audiences that were only introduced to the character just ten years earlier. The Amazing Spider-Man game does a similar job of reintroducing fans to a concept they’re already familiar with, dropping Spidey into an open world version of Manhattan for the first time in years. We were happy to see this gameplay return, but the game had little new for the Wallcrawler to do in the Big Apple.
The citywide swinging felt almost as natural as before, but the action is built around a repetitive series of objectives that aren’t all that different from Spider-Man’s first open world game--beating up thieves, transporting people to hospitals, etc. The closed off world of the film also saps a lot of the fun intrinsic to setting other Spider-Man games in the larger Marvel universe. Amazing Spider-Man gets bonus points for taking place after the film, meaning it tells an original story instead of forcing fans to watch Uncle Ben get shot for the 100th time.
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