This plot is only barely tied to the Kingpin thread, but it takes center stage during a large chunk of the second act of the game, and almost seems to become the main story - almost as if the writers couldn't decide if they wanted the game to be about Kingpin or about Carnage.Īside form a couple obligatory super villain boss fights with Electro and Green Goblin (Harry Osborn), the game has very little relation with the movie on which it is supposedly based. There's another secondary plot about hunting down the serial killer Cletus Kasady, who is killing criminals. But secretly, the task force is really out to destroy rival crime bosses and give Kingpin a monopoly on New York's organized crime underworld. His company partners with Oscorp (who supplies the task force with its tech), and sells the task force to the public as a way of stopping crime and ending the vigilante justice that has plagued the city. The bulk of the story is based around Wilson Fisk (the Kingpin) using rising crime rates as an excuse to deploy his private anti-crime task force in New York city.

The Kingpin is comically (and ridiculously) oversized. It could have been a good story, but plot is clumsily-executed, and the associations to the movie only drag it down further. Unfortunately, this one isn't as well written or as well presented as the previous game. Once again, Beenox was smart enough to know better than to follow along with the movie's asinine plot and opted to write their own side-story. Amazing Spider-Man 2, now with double the crappy story!

Sadly, that hasn't happened yet, and we have a new movie tie-in game that suffers from almost all of the problems associated with a movie tie-in. Web-swinging is a little more realistic this time around, but handles poorly.Īfter 2012's Amazing Spider-Man tie-in game presented some interesting ideas, I was really hoping that Beenox would have an opportunity to take the things they'd learned and apply them to a new, stand-alone Spider-Man game that would not be constrained to the plot and release schedule of a film tie-in. Side missions are painfully tedious and in-organic.

Graphics are somewhat cartooney, but some character models are awkwardly exaggerated (especially Kingpin).ĭialogue is excessively repetitive, and none of the movie's actors bothered to reprise their roles. Changes to stealth takedowns add welcome challenge, but new combat mechanics feel gimmicky, and camera seems less stable than the last game.

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