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RADAR MARVEL GAMES<br />
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN<br />
SEE IT!<br />
CHECK OUT<br />
THE TRAILER<br />
ON THIS<br />
MONTH’S<br />
DVD<br />
In the comic<br />
continuum<br />
The story picks up where<br />
Ultimate Spider-Man #39<br />
left off: Eddie Brock,<br />
Peter’s childhood friend,<br />
has become Venom! This<br />
game reveals Venom’s<br />
Ultimate universe origins<br />
as he’s pursued by the<br />
feds…and others.<br />
>> Not so long ago, Warner Bros. proclaimed it would impose stiff fines on games based on WB properties that averaged less than<br />
16 > COMPUTER GAMING WORLD<br />
First Look<br />
BEENOX IS ALSO HARD AT WORK BRINGING<br />
Ultimate Spider-Man to the PC, and spokespeople<br />
have done everything in their power to assure us<br />
that the PC-gaming crowd won’t get screwed by<br />
some half-baked version of the ol’ webhead’s game<br />
this time around.<br />
What makes this game so cool? First, it takes<br />
the Manhattan environment from Spider-Man 2<br />
(the console version, that is) and adds the borough<br />
of Queens, where Peter Parker grew up.<br />
You have free reign to swing around the city at<br />
your leisure or advance the story line written by<br />
Marvel scribe Brian Michael Bendis (see what<br />
Bendis has to say on the facing page). Everything<br />
is presented in an extremely authentic comic-<br />
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This is how Spider-Man looks in most<br />
games: “realistically” drawn in 3D, and with<br />
the frame of a strong, young man, as he’s<br />
portrayed in the movies.<br />
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Now, check out what’s being done for<br />
Ultimate Spider-Man: The semi-cel-shaded 3D<br />
comic-inking art style looks exactly as it does<br />
in the comics. Spidey may look a little wiry,<br />
but in the Ultimate Marvel universe, Parker is<br />
15 years old, dating Mary Jane Watson, and<br />
working part-time on The Daily Bugle’s<br />
website. Hooray for contemporizing!<br />
book style, thanks to expertly animated cutscenes<br />
that bring the game to life in much the<br />
same way the recent live-action adaptation of Sin<br />
City does for that comic. There are even a few ingame<br />
pop-up panels and splitscreen moments<br />
that further convey the comic-book feel.<br />
You also get the opportunity to play as Spidey’s<br />
archnemesis, Venom. As you navigate the<br />
detailed and destructible city streets of New York,<br />
you’ll discover that the characters play quite differently—after<br />
all, Venom is a huge beast that<br />
consumes people to survive. A large variety of<br />
missions and side quests will take you all over<br />
the Big Apple as you bust crime and save lives.<br />
There are even a few minigames that require<br />
split-second decisions: Do you rescue the kid<br />
from falling debris or yank the fiery car blocking a<br />
subway entrance? Timing is everything./<br />
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Check out how much the game apes the feel<br />
of a comic book—there are even inset “panels.”<br />
And yes, we know Freedom Force does this too.
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