Sorry, I'm just matching up with the quality that this game has!
Now then, we get treated to a sad piano waltz and weird alien things attacking a bunch of soldiers. Spidey leaps away and we hear voices of Mary Jane nagging at us (get used to this), we get Wolverine threatening us (get used to this), and then Black Cat hitting on us (get super used to this). Meanwhile, Spidey is showcasing exactly what we can do by web zipping into a bunch of venom monsters before landing on a roof and letting us play.
Oh, and remember when I said sad piano waltz? It isn't just any sad piano waltz. It's Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven. This game literally thinks that it's impressive enough to use a song like that in its intro. If you don't know it, you've heard it a thousand times. I'll link you to it.
I'm now in the Prelude! My objective is to Eliminate Symbiotes! Now, my first time trying this game, I had no idea wtf was even going on at this point. I have a better idea now. I jump off the building and completely forget how to web sling, but I do save myself at the last second! If I have to give the game credit for anything, it's got fun web swinging. It would have been nice if they game told me how to do this. Fortunately, I think they just expect you to jump off a ledge and run to the waypoint. However, in most platformers, you jump off a ledge and hit the ground, you get hurt. Not in Spider-Man: Web of Shadows though! It tells you to throw away everything you know and make a leap off in faith. Anyway, you get to the waypoint and see a bunch of things that I can only describe as looking like Anti-Venom. I won't give a history lesson on Anti-Venom, but I'll offer a pic so you know what I'm talking about:
Now then, I'm supposed to eliminate these things. I'm not told what does what though. I'm just supposed to mash buttons until I find something that looks like I'm making Spider-Man punch. Now, I pick X (I'm playing the 360 version, btw) and instantly, Spider-Man is throwing f***ing flame fists and kicks of fury everywhere and completely decimates the generico enemies for the game. Gotta say, that's pretty cool and makes me feel like a badass. Iron Fist should be jealous. Credit to game here. I destroy all of them and get little red orbs, which are my experience for the game.
After the first fight, I start web slinging to the next waypoint to repeat the process. Only this time, it tells me how to web sling. And then when I get to the enemies, it tells me to press X to God Fist them to death. This is AFTER the first time I had to fight these things, btw. I kill them all and get to my next waypoint. We see the baddies presumably kill one of the soldiers and he disappears after blinking a few times. Oh, Activision.
After this, we get a cutscene of a huge ass helicoptor crashing into a building. We have to fight a bunch of enemies that look much more Venom-like on a wall. Wall combat is like, terrible. Press X until things die. That's it. And if you accidentally go over the top, you fall BACK. You don't get to the top of the building, you fall off of it. It makes no sense. We also learn that we can tap RT to do a web zip, which basically catches onto a wall or something and tugs us there. Neat. Useful. Anyway, I do my spinny top kicks to kill all of the enemies on the walls. Then a bird venom enemy grabs a soldier and flies in the air. And NOW we learn:
"Quickly press B to shoot Webs"
Which answers the age old question of: How do I shot web?
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