It has been some time now since I have been really excited to play a Spider-Man licensed game. As a big fan of the web slinger, I have been disappointed in the past few attempts at bringing Spidey to life in an interactive videogame environment.

The best part of being Spider-Man in a videogame should be the feeling of fighting and moving in a way you would imagine him to move. The successful Sam Rami Spider-Man movies (we forgive the third one) have only added to the expectations of wanna be webheads.

After checking out the combat and controls highlighted in the roughly 90 second behind the scenes trailer below I would be lying to you if I said I wasn’t excited to take the game for a spin and see some more. Developer Shaba Games seems to be very hard at work.

You will notice a fresh attention to detail in the form of yellowish colored wisps that emit from Spidey’s limbs as he maneuvers in mid air. While this effect is more “comic book” and less “film adaptation” I found it to be refreshing and an overall nice touch to the aerial acrobatics. And if you ever thought to yourself — I want to be able to change between red and blue Spidey and symbiote Spidey in mid air — now you can.

Ok enough bullshit from me, it is pretty obvious I liked what I saw. Check out the trailer yourself and let me know what you think.

P.S. If you are an uber geek (like me) and you plan on attending Comic-Con this July, you may want to chime in with your vote in the Mary Jane contest being held on the official Spider-Man Web of Shadows website, www.seizecontrol.com. Cool people vote for Sunshine.

Tags: Activision, Behind The Scenes, Combat, Spider-Man, Spider-Man Web of Shadows

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2 Comments » MrBlue on June 23, 2008 8:46 am This game looks pretty promising. I hope the controls end up as smooth as the gameplay footage appears. Treysuck on June 23, 2008 9:03 am Not really sold on this game and it is going to take more than a 90 second video to convince me to buy another Spiderman game. I will probably rent this one before I consider buying it for $60. RSS feed for comments on this post. Comment Now Note: Commenting on Ripten does not currently require registration, however to be eligible for contests on the site, you must be a registered user. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Commenting Rules: No hate speech allowed. If you must argue, please debate intelligently. Comments containing selected keywords or outbound links will be put into moderation to help prevent spam. Ripten reserves the right to delete comments and ban anyone who doesn't follow the rules. Thanks. Notify me of followup comments Tired of the Goomba? Upload your own custom comment avatar.