Spider-Man: Mysterio?s Menace

Smilin? Stan?s swashbuckling super hero returns in Spider-Man: Mysterio?s Menace for the GBA.

Vicarious Visions (Tony Hawk?s Pro Skater 2) have delivered another stellar handheld title with Spider-Man: Mysterio?s Menace, an addictive side-scrolling platformer with a neat, Choose Your Own Adventure style story line. The plot is standard costumed hero fare. Mysterio has been controlling a rash of crimes throughout the city, and as Spider-Man, you?ll have to zip around NYC and go toe to toe against classic arch villains like Electro, The Scorpion, and The Rhino, while trying to find the fish-bowl headed maniac. Spider-Man boasts some of the sharpest graphics on the GBA so far. The animations are smooth, and the colors are dynamic. Also impressive are the little details, like shattering glass, the swarm of lights that dance along the walls in the night club, bullets ricocheting off of walls, and the hapless fellow who keeps dropping the toilet paper in the bathroom stall. Great level designs are jam packed with tons of alternate routes, walls and ceilings to climb, and perilous obstacles to overcome. The super-tight controls enable you to pull off any of Spider-Man?s impressive array of moves. The action is fast, steady, and always intense with a solid variety of running, climbing, fighting, evading, and hunting. The sound effects are superb, and you can almost feel your enemy?s jaw snap as you crack him with your fists. Each web action has its own distinct sound, and swinging through Manhattan on a web line is feels and sounds just right. Why we can?t get this sort of quality from Activision?s X-Men titles is a mystery most insidious.

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