Which, for a superhero with some of the most memorable sound effects and villains in his rogues gallery, is disappointing. How cool would it have been to hear any of the villains laugh, like the Green Goblin's cackling, or Mysterio's distorted chortling? As is, the sound does its job and nothing else. Unfortunately, they use the same vocal effects for all the villains, and, once again, there's no sampled speech. I will give it credit that there are a number of different scream and grunt sounds, as opposed to using one or two for each character, and Spider-Man even gets his own vocal track!. Web blasts, punching, jumping, warnings, etc. The sound's pretty standard, with mostly stock effects only covering the necessities. I would believe that these tracks were used in the score of a Spider-Man show or movie. Of course, I still can't remember any of the tracks, and most of them sound the same with a few notes changed, but it still feels like a superhero game with a lot of action, as opposed to a meandering drearfest like the last game. It's energetic, action-packed, and sort of conveys a feeling of desperation in addition to excitement, like Spider-Man is swinging into action, but he has to do it quickly, or the world is doomed!.

Music & Sound: The music is a huge step-up from The Masked Menace. There is the standard blurriness and compression of Plug n Play games of this time period, but, overall, this is one of the most detailed, exciting-looking games I've come across! Though it's pretty stiff during the Warehouse Stage, which I assume they did to keep the action tight and responsive. Graphics: The graphics are REALLY nice for a Plug n Play game, incorporating a number of different perspectives and elements to give the game an overall feeling of size and scope! When you're on the train, it feels like trains are zooming by at over 100 MPH! The city on the rooftops feels dark and mysterious, everything kept in shadow, including the character sprites! You're kept guessing where the bad guys will pop out next in the warehouse segments, and there's a real feel of depth, like there actually is enough room behind the crates to hide behind! And while Spidey is swinging over the city, the buildings are incredibly detailed, there are actually cars beneath driving by, and the animation of Spidey swinging from an overhead perspective is nearly flawless! In fact, most of the animation in this game is VERY fluid and lifelike, to the point I'm curious if they utilized live actors for motion capture!. If I saw this on store shelves, I'd pick it up just to see what it was!

As an adult, I wish the console was built a little bigger, as it painfully squeezed my arm all throughout the game, but that's a nitpick at best, and it's fine for its target audience of 10-year-old Spider-Man fans. It's a longer console than most, it's designed to fit on the arm, and everything's controlled using only one hand(save for when the directional pad is used for the Menu.) I guess it doesn't stand out that cosmetically, since it just uses the standard red & blue Spider-Man colors with a faint web pattern, but the overall build is pretty noteworthy, and helps affirm that it is indeed a 'Motion Game'.

As I pointed out, it's designed similarly to other controllers, wired or wireless, that are focused more on motion than button mashing, such as the Power Glove. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm in desperate need of an ice pack for my arm*.ĭesign: This is one of the more unique designs for a console I've come across. Suddenly, the regular gamepad seemed like an antique, compared to infrared remotes that could interpret your motions and translate them into onscreen actions! While far from the first console to fiddle with motion-sensing controls, it was the first to implement them in a functional and fun way that gave a unique experience to console gaming and nearly every game genre that exists! So while we can laugh at the Wii's pathetic library comprised mostly of shovelware titles, it's the technical gimmickry and the way they sold the system to the public that makes the Wii and its control system so memorable. It's a console that sold over 100 million units in the 10 years it was active, beating out competitors like the PS3 and Xbox 360 by a large margin for the first several of those years! While a lot of factors contributed to its success(a large library of colorful games, its flexibility with a number of easy-to-acquire peripherals, the game and non-game related applications it offered, its appeal to serious and casual gamers alike and overall compatibility with all game genres, etc.), the most obvious was its use of motion controls. The impact of the Wii console on the world of gaming can't be understated.

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