{"id":5110,"date":"2010-09-29T11:46:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T17:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=5110"},"modified":"2010-09-29T11:46:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T17:46:30","slug":"spider-man-shattered-dimensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/29\/spider-man-shattered-dimensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Mysterio is up to no good in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. In fact, according to super-psychic, and nice old lady, Madam Web, only multiple Spider-Men from multiple dimensions can put reality back where it’s supposed to be. It’s a clever concept that allows Activision to showcase even less well known\u00a0incarnations of the character. Add on some classic web swinging and a gorgeous graphics engine and it’s the perfect action game for teens and maybe even pre-teens.<\/p>\n

I’m not saying that to damn the game with faint praise. This new Spider-Man actually apes that stellar Batman game and marries to to wall crawling and webswinging.<\/p>\n

The game switches dimensions and lets you play as the Spidey of that plane of existence. There’s regular Amazing Spidey, the little remembered early 90’s Spider-Man 2099, Ultimate Spider-Man, back in the black suit but before that alien suit tries to eat him (pre-Venom), and a Spider-Man in a black leathery suit called Spider-Man noir. The only ones missing are clone Ben Reilly as the Scarlett Spider, a couple Spider-Women (the suit Iron Man gave him, is unlockable) and a real missed opportunity as Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham (he’s referenced in the tutorial but really, including a funny character would have made a fun dimension by itself .) Each character has different abilities but plays roughly the same. Batman Noir deserves special mention, not just because a Spider-Man in black leather skulking in the shadows and taking out the bad guys by webbing and stringing them up is cool – oh yes it is – but because it plays like Batman Arkham Asylum. This is a good thing.<\/p>\n

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Lots of familiar bad guys and unfamiliar incarnations of bad guys litter the game as the various Spider-Men try to set things right. I can’t imagine a more recommendable game for Teens and I can see some parents going as low as 9 or 10 for mature kids – or comic book fans. Hey, the TV shows are more violent and are rated for 7+! As always, that’s up to parents, for the rest of you… well… nuff said!<\/p>\n

PS: Enjoy the voice work of Stan Lee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mysterio is up to no good in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. In fact, according to super-psychic, and nice old lady, Madam Web, only multiple Spider-Men from multiple dimensions can put reality back where it’s supposed to be. It’s a clever concept that allows Activision to showcase even less well known\u00a0incarnations of the character. Add on some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}