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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Game Review: A Not So Friendly Neighbourhood

Another Spider-Man movie in theatres another movie tie-in game. But while most movie tie-in games are shallow cash grabbing bad experiences there are some titles that do the movie tie-in genre proud such as 2011’s Captain America: Super Soldier and in fact the whole line of Spider-Man movie games. Especially 2012’s Amazing Spider-Man game which presented a clever, interesting and well realised story that followed on from the movie of the same name. So with a good history and the fact that Spider-Man is my favourite superhero I went into this game with excitement but sadly left less than impressed. The story takes place before and within the Amazing Spider-Man 2 movie’s plot. The game starts with Spider-Man still trying to hunt down his Uncle Ben’s killer and from here events escalate to the backdrop of a gang war which brings in many iconic villains for young Spidey to go up against and protect his beloved city from. While in the first few missions of the game the story is w