Why Ultimate Spider-man is the Best Game Adaptation | An Essay

There are games with better combat than Ultimate Spider-Man. There are games with better worlds. There are games with a greater plurality of these elements than Ultimate Spider-Man has. Ultimate Spider-Man may not be the best game of all time. However, I think it’s the best game ADAPTATION of a property that I’ve ever played, and I can’t think of a whole lot that come particularly close.
Ultimate Spider-Man feels like it is ripped straight from the comics and coded into 3D form.
I am going to go over this game and break down all of the little details that go into it. I'm going to explain just how it manages to bring the comics to life in a brand-new form.
This video is a love letter to a game that I love, a set of stories that I love, and a superhero that I love.
My name is Calvin B. Fisher, and I do retrospectives and longform game critiques. I'm also the author of the Northfield Saga, a post-apocalyptic science fiction series set in a gas-infested wasteland. Mark Northfield faces death or the sacrifice of his soul, when he is blackmailed into an assassination mission. What he doesn't know is that his target holds the key to saving the world.
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