Played and beaten it on the Wii and 360.
For the Wii:
It's ugly. No way around that, it's just ugly. The story is meh, and combat can be summed up as random swinging the wiimote around. Boss battles are easy with the exception of Venom; who's massive health is the only thing that makes him difficult. There's no reason for your punches to do so little damage while a good 6 punch combo against you will kill you.
The Wii only fights: Morbius the Living Vampire and Shriek...meh. I want to fight Kingpin, Rhino, Scorpion...not some goth kid and some mental chick with little clothing on!
The city gets gritty and grimy for no reason once you get the suit. Switching the suit on or off changes the city back to normal which leads me to believe that it's supposed to be keyed in with what suit you're wearing.
But it's not.
I've seen the grim and dead tress in central park look while in my Red and blues, and then a switch to the black suit and the city looks clean and the trees are green. Sometimes a load zone will change the look too.
I did like the ability to switch suits at will. It added to the feel of the suit being addictive since...I did get addicted to using the suit. Soon after getting it I refused to fight any punk without the extra damage the suit was giving my punches.
Seems the suit kills you if you wear it too long, so you go into a mini-game to rip it off. The longer the mini-game the longer and more you've worn the suit. If you're like me, it's a long mini-game by the time you hit the church and pass the suit to Brock.
I hated fighting Venom without that suit.
Webslinging is fun. Controls are ****ed up, especially while wall crawling.
3/5
For the 360:
Pretty looking.
Longer game. And I prefer the button mashing of the 360 over the Wii's slapping back and forth.
Boss's are tough! My little brother spent 2 hours fighting Kraven and called that the toughest fight in the game.
I killed Kraven my first run through. Lizard and Kingpin were tougher for me.
Lizard because of the throwing mini-game that I never really got that good at. And Kingpin because of the same reason Venom was tough in the Wii game. Lots of life and lots of damage.
The game's tougher than the Wii game, but I liked that since I breezed through the Wii version in just under 5 hours (and with two lives; Venom killed me the first time I fought him).
I had none of the camera troubles people swear they have; outside of some odd "Now you only see Spidey's ***" shots while wall crawling.
Disabling bombs becomes tedious and by the time you finish the Mad Bomber subplot you're just plain tired of doing them.
This version had some real fun moments, unlike the Wii version.
The city looks dull. So did the Wii version, of course, but the Wii game looked dull due to poor graphics (think everything looks like gray boxes until you're less than a block away from them). This was the 360 and the city should have looked alive.
Voice actors in both versions sucked. Many of them are just phoned in (like Tobey's Spidey lines are rarely worth the money they poured into his wallet. Get a professional voice actor who will bring some character to the game...the dude that played Spidey in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance for example)
Despite being the tougher of the two versions some boss fights are just lame. Sandman's first fight is simple and lame. Sandman's second (and last, god he's barely in this game) is terrible; more on that later.
For a brief moment in the 360 game you get to control two OTHER characters. Scorpion and New Goblin.
Both are utter disappointments. Scorpion is just mindless button mashing in a room with no doors and about the size of the screen. Fight a few grunts who die in about 2 hits each (with swiping attacks that can hit 5+ guys easy).
Goblin...Goblin starts off fun. Race to the final fight to save Spidey. And the controls take a bit to get used to, but there's some really fun possibilities with this!
Get to the fight. You're locked in going either left or right circling Sandman while you throw pumpkin bombs for a bit until he dies. There's no chance Sandman will hit you (until you use a fire hydrant on him, don't ask). It's easy.
Followed by the toughest thing in the game. An 'interactive cutscene' which is the fastest one I've ever seen in a game. You need to know the button and stick motions before they come up on the screen. Otherwise you must redo the utterly boring Sandman battle again.
A fate worse than your 360 suddenly catching on fire due to it's sheer boredom.
4/5
Oh wait, that's before the single worst thing about the game was factored in!
No way to start a new game or have two different games going at once!
This is the 360, you're telling me you can't have two games going at once, but the Wii one can?
And once you beat the game...what do you do? Well, you go into the hard drive and delete it and start again, because there's no way to start a new save game!
That brings it down to 3.5/5
Both Games:
Venom's voice is terrible.
Spidey jokes a lot more in the Wii game, but few of them match what's happening in the game. Reminded me of the old Football games where announcers would talk about your play, but say **** that never even remotely happened.
Gangs get boring quickly! Didn't San Andreas teach us all that? Take over gang terrority isn't fun. It's long and boring and it takes center stage since they keep attacking and you don't want to lose ground. (More of a problem in GTA: SA since who cares if the Apocalypse Gang takes over something from the police? It doesn't affect you like it does in GTA).
Web attacks are weak and damn near useless.
I miss webbing people to street lamps. I miss it good.
Overall, decent game. I'd rent the Wii game, and the 360 game might be worth a buy.
