Video Game Preview: Spider-Man: Web of Shadows

Worried by the child-oriented turn the recent Spider-Man games have seen to take? Disappointed by that Spider-Man 3 game? I was too. Then I saw the trailer for Spider-Man: Web of Shadows. The game, which will be launching on October 21st on the Playstation 3 (and 2), PSP, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, Wii, and PC, is the work of the developers at Treyarch and Activision. Here's the teaser trailer: See, the game takes place in a post-apocalyptic New York City, after a symbiote invasion pretty much wrecked the city. Spider-Man decides he's going to go No Man's Land on everybody's ass and save the city. Now, the developers of this game had been working on this new combat system for awhile, and when they were given the chance to use it on Spider-Man, they jumped at it. In previous Spider-Man games, webswinging and fighting have pretty... [read full story]