Let me just state that if you're a Luke Cage fan, there's a lot of him in this game. In fact, if I remember right, he's the best character in this game for the fact that's he's LUKE FREAKING CAGE. Gotta love him.
Anyway, after this fantastic boss fight consisting of throwing cars, I get the prompt that I can change suits. Now, I know. Black Spidey gets to throw cars and do more awesome hits and stuff. However, regular Spidey is faster. You get choices later in the game to do something Black Spidey would do (I'll likely call it Spider-Dickery) or you get to be a good Spider-Man and do heroic choices. Believe me, both of them have a high potential for some terrible unintentional comedy. I'd make a separate save to do both of them simultaneously, but unfortunately this game only lets you have one save file at a time. Thanks for that, Activision. So I will do heroic Spider-Man first, simply because I like playing as heroic Spider-Man. He's more fun, imo.
And since I'm playing heroic Spider-Man, I'm only going to level up heroic Spider-Man stuff. Yup, there's a leveling system. You can upgrade your attacks, get new abilities, among other things. It's locked now, but I'll talk more about it when it's available.
Anyway, we must now creep and follow MJ's ambulance to the hospital. We get there and IMMEDIATELY a bunch of thugs pull up in matching purple low riders and start shooting at this ambulance. Spidey jumps on top of the ambulance as the two medics get out of it, instead of stopping the thugs. The medical guy says, "You! Stop those hooligans!"
And Spider-Man stutters out, "Uh... yeah. O-okay!" in the most unheroic way possible. Now we must defeat hooligans. We get a monologue from Spidey where he talks about how he wishes he could be at MJ's side with her hurt arm, but he couldn't ignore this gang fight going on right outside of this hospital! (Yeah, I guess it's a gang fight now.) I beat up everyone and more low riders drive up. They say they're going to waste the Spider-Freak, and then start shooting. Then Luke Cage walks up, bonks one of them on the head, then they all try to shoot him down. And, like the badass Luke Cage is, the bullets don't harm him but end up blowing up a car behind him.
Anyway, another unique thing with Spider-Man: Web of Shadows is that sometimes you'll have people fight with you. So Luke Cage joins us in the fight with some cool moves. Tbqh, I would really like to play as him. I kill the enemies with Cage before plopping down beside him. The game then tells me to FIND LUKE CAGE. So I look to my left and chat with him. He says to beat down any thugs I see and go meet him in the park later. Word.
MISSION COMPLETE!
And now I unlock power ups. Basically, it works like a leveling tree. You get RED, BLACK, and ALLIES. Red is for regular Spider-Man, Black is for symbiote Spider-Man, and Allies allows you to call in buddies to help you out depending on your alignment. You need to unlock them first though.
The different leveling trees are like so:
Ground Attack
Air Attack
Web Attack
Web-Strike
Special Attack
Web-Shot (Red)
Tendril Attack (Black)
Each side gets different ground and air attacks, and you level them by getting red or black experience, which is given to you based on what suit you use to fight crime. Something nice is that you can preview attacks if you can buy them with a nice video that shows you how it works. Most of the attacks are locked though, so I can only really do one Web-Shot thing and two Ground Attacks.
I choose to purchase a Counter Attack, and then I pick another attack on my combo.
Stay tuned for more!
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