It's always appeared to me that it works the other way around with comics and licensed material in more financially successful media and has worked that way for at least more than 40 years.

Not sure if this game deserves to be bought after the utterly atrocious Ultimate Spider-Man game….

I take it you don't buy Spidey comics either? Or any mainstream superhero comic for that matter.

When you get into the 80's and 90's, a big consequence of decompression for Spider-Man is that he'd tend to be mopey for entire issues and arcs at a time, sometimes through entire fight scenes, with maybe a few pages of something else to try and break the tone up for a bit. I think when the mopeyness is persistent and not leavened with other writing elements, it stands out more and generally becomes more off-putting.

A mopey Spider-Man game hitting now is odd to me now only in that it reflects more of a pre-BND tone to the books. You'd think Marvel would be pushing harder for licensed material to reflect their new status quo.

Sigh, another Spidey game with

[x] Vulture
[x] Venom
[BIG X] Free roam of NYC

God how I hate free roam! Not only do I hate it, I hate how people consider it a positive progression in gaming. Could you imagine if Choose Your Own Adventure books were considered avant garde literature?

"And in this game, we have every single building and street in NYC exactly how it is in reality?" Wow sweet. You know what, I got a great idea to make it even more realistic. Why don't we make it so that Spidey doesn't have powers, cuz you know, no one in real life has powers, so that's pretty unrealistic. But we can program in the subway system, 100% accurate to the real thing, and then we can have Spidey take the 2 train to Doctor Octopus, who isn't really a man with 8 hands (unrealistic), he's a man with 8 hench men who he calls his "hands"! Oh ho, you see what I did there?

I had to sell San Andreas because I simply couldn't stomach driving a half an hour from point A to point B in an MF-ING VIDEO GAME!! God almighty. And this plot? Really? Symbiote invasion? Really really? It could work I guess, I understand that plot is generally just window dressing meant to justify or motivate the game play but this is pretty far out of Spider-Man's realm, sounds a lot more like an FF story.

Plus, some of the other videos featured cutscenes with slow-mo (i.e. bullet time) action. Please, state of California that produces all games and movies, relent with the bullet time. It wasn't that awesome in the first Matrix and it's certainly not awesome at all now (especially, from what I hear about Wanted, when it adds an extra half hour onto a movie)

Cliff's Notes: This is a big "not thrilled" for me.