Like Treyarch’s other webhead games, Spider-Man: Web of Shadows is entirely free-roaming. The island of Manhattan is open for your web-slinging, wall-running pleasure, and it looks fantastic. The graphics are a huge step up from Spider-Man 3 for Wii, the city looks bigger, the animation is smoother, and the character models look more realistic. It also represents a change in how developers see the Wii – In the past, the Wii versions of multi-platform releases often shared code with Playstation 2 releases rather than with other “next-gen” systems. Spider-Man: Web of Shadows is one of few titles where the Wii, Xbox 360, and Playstation 3 all share the same version of the game, minus a few graphical differences and console exclusives. Unfortunately, it also shares the same flaws.

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