Sooo, I'm going to see Spider-man 3 today, but yesterday I managed to get my hands on the game version for the Wii.

Anyone else seen the movie yet? Played on of the many incarnations of the game? What did you think?

I only played for like an hour last night, but despite all the flack its getting, the game for the Wii was a whole lot of fun. The graphics may not be anywhere close to the Next-Gen versions, but having the entirety of Manhattan to run around in is just awesome. That, and the swinging mechanics are so incredible--actually flicking your wrists to send webs from the respective hands is awesome. On top of that, there is an RPG element present only in the PS2 and Wii versions. As you complete missions, complete attack combos, do aerial stunts, and collect certain things, you gain experience, which you can use in a sort of sphere-grid system to purchase upgrades to different abilities. So from a basic web-splat, you can upgrade into a web lasso and swing baddies above your head, and then upgrade into a web hammer, latching onto them and swinging them up and slamming them into the ground.

Aaand all of that is countered by the Black Suit. In the PS3 and Xbox versions you can only use the black suit in certain missions, but for the Wii, once you get it, you can use it until you discard it during the storyline (and then unlock it afterwards), but while you're in the black suit, you're 2-3 times more powerful, which is tempting, but you stop earning exprience to upgrade your abilities.

Overall, I just think the game is going to be a whole lot of fun. There's 8 villians, 5 storylines, and a dynamic gang system that I think more than makes up for the loss of textures at a distance and the occasional camera snaffu.

Aaand I seem to be rambling, but I spent last night reading lots of bad reviews, while I thought it was an entertaining game.. and what more can you ask for, really, right?

So i'm just curious if any of the other Wii owners picked it up, or if anyone at all grabbed it and what they think of it.

Saw it for free online about 2-3 hours after it was released.

It was decent.. some funny scenes, lot of action as usual. As to its quality regarding the comic, I'm not sure- never read the comic.

An IMAX theatre is showing it near where I lived. 'Course, it's like booked for the next three days, but next weekend! *drool*

I saw it last night, it was very good. I liked it better than the first two, but thought the amount of screen time with Venom was very small... Hey, maybe Venom will return for Spiderman 4, with Carnage!

My roommate was like, hey, they can't make a Spiderman 4, they're out of bad guys...

So I named off three or four off the top of my head. At the very least, Doc Connors still has yet to turn into Reptile, we still haven't seen Scorpion, or that Rhino guy, or Kingpin...

Sort of quasi-spoilerish, so don't read if you haven't seen it.





I don't like how they keep killing off villains. The only villain who they haven't actually killed off so far is Sandman, and he's meant to be reformed. There was a lot of potential with Venom - Carnage, Toxin, etc - and they've screwed it up unless they do some serious retconning.

I just got home from seeing it! It was awesome!

Oh eff you all for so much blacked out text. Fine, I'll go to the dumb theatre right now.

Better blacked out text than having the spoilers on the page. *peer*

Maybe I'll go check it out later.

And Noola, the first movie was the Green Goblin, and this one had the "New Goblin". Hobgoblin is different. He's a guy in a yellow and orange suit that began at odds with the Green Goblin, if I recall.

Ok so the movie just ended a few minutes ago but I need to monkey with the forum settings to see how to use the black text before I throw my two cents in.

Too many goblins!

And I agreed with your comments about Peter and the end of the movie completely.

I've got a question, in the comics, does the venom symbot pick up knwolege from its host?

I think the bad guys had way to much "narrator" knowledge. Good movie otherwise, and I'd expect more comments about emo hair from this group.

Yeah, the symbiote is telepathic, and doesn't actually have to be in contact with someone to begin to control them. It also controls its hosts in their sleep and during blackouts.

Also, in the comic, the Venom Symbiote is considered insane by its own kind and banished, because it actually sort of cares for its hosts. It wants to bond permantly with its host, rather than simply use them and kill them, and the other symbiotes don't want it to spread.

The Church scene is actually right out of the comics, except in the comic, the Symbiote actually drags Peter to safety after he falls unconscious from rejecting the symbiote. In various incarnations, the Venom Symbiote takes any chance it can to try and re-bond with its original host, Peter Parker.

Also, which would have been nifty to see in the movie, is that the Venom Symbiote has much more impressive morphing abilities, and can actually turn into ordinary clothing--and even firearms, if you consider the "What If.." stories as canonical in terms of powers.