Spider-Man: Web of Shadows (Nintendo DS)

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If part of Peter Parker's appeal is the down-on-his-luck nerd status, Marvel has certainly been doing a good job of putting the poor kid through the wringer in the last couple of years. In the comics, Spider-Man recently plodded through an arduous storyline involving the devil, rife with the kind of goofy comic book logic modern readers hate. In the theaters, his last movie did well financially but bombed critically, and it was tied to a mediocre game to boot. Six months after Spider-Man 3, he got pushed into Spider-Man: Friend or Foe, which erased any gravity in the franchise and packaged what was left into a dumbed-down children's brawler. The wallcrawler's got to catch a break eventually, right?
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