So over the last few days I have copious amounts of free time, sort of, while the workmen were trouncing through my apartment. They needed to completely rip out all the padding, dry the carpet, replace the padding and clean the carpet. The first two were done on Monday during the day, the last on Tuesday. This means that I had to sit and watch them do all this. Given that the entertainment unit was still hooked up, I managed to get in some web swinging with Spiderman 3 the game. There are so many reviews out there that are mixed feelings (kind of like how I am about the movie) so I am not going to bore you with the “this part could be better” crap. The coolest part about the game is the web swinging through New York. They rendered out a full Manhattan Island and it looks amazing. You can go down into the subway, ride a train, sling shot from the Bugle to Central park and it all is spectacular!
When Spidey encounters bad guys he has to do his standard hyper agile fighting style and that comes across in the game. Too many times I went through some button mashing and came across a move that I shouted out “Holy CRAP! That was cool!” The missions are interesting and help move the story along, but aren’t so long that you get tired of them. It’s nice because they are broken into parts. Each part advances the story line but isn’t too long, so you can do part 1 of this mission, and part 3 of that one.
Then there is Mary Jane.
There are a series of missions where you have to take Mary Jane for a “Thrill ride.” Now don’t get your hopes up, it’s a E rated game. In these missions, you basically are a shuttle service for MJ. She has an important appointment that she has to get to and instead of calling a cab (or getting that two timing rat Harry to fly her on his magical snowboard) she has to ride on your back. This wouldn’t be so bad if you were going straight to where she needs to go. Nooooo She wants you to Swing Low, close to the ground, then Swing High to the top of that building, now go really fast! The whole time she is screaming out what she wants you to do but yet you have a time limit and have to get her there before the clock runs out. But wait, there’s more! Along the way you collect hearts, when you do what she wants you collect hearts, and there are these big hearts you grab on your way past. If you don’t fill up on hearts before you get to the end point, you fail. So it’s bad enough I have to be her shuttle service, but now if she doesn’t love me enough by the end point, I fail.
Hey MJ, go take the subway like everyone else! I think I will go find Gwyn Stacy or Betty Brant!
Oh, the house is back to normal now. Sarah helped out and took Andrew to his Guitar lesson and Baseball game while I moved all the furniture back to where it was. Everything is back to the usual. Well, as much as you gat get to in my place!
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