Swinging through the air and pounding bad guys to a pulp are two of the things Spider-Man does best, and in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, you do plenty of both while playing as four different versions of Spider-Man: Amazing, Ultimate, 2099, and Noir.

Terrific artistic design; Great freedom of movement; Powerful combat abilities; Rich with Spider-Man personality; Tantalizing level-specific challenges

Noir universe doesn't fit in quite right; Some locomotion snags; Certain levels can get repetitive

Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions combines the typical features of a Spider-Man game – slinging on pieces of spiderwebs and bashing enemies – with the possibility to take on four looks of the hero. For those that know the comics: we talk about Amazing, Noir, 2099 and Ultimate Spider-Man.

While Spider-Man is a comic book icon and a successful movie star, his track record as a video game hero isn't nearly as good, with his games ranging from the awesome and to the just plain awful.

Excellent art design, decent camera, top-notch voice acting, and plenty of cool unlockable content; Colorful, unique levels and boss encounters really make the gameplay both engaging and memorable; In particular, the 1930's Noir universe looks and sounds amazing

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The four different Spider-Man characters available to play as require different approaches and tactics

Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions is beautiful on the PS3. The cel-shading gives it an appropriate cartoon feel, while the dialogue of our web-headed friend is dead on, with lines such as my favorite, "This neighborhood isn't going to friendly itself.

I'll admit I have never been the biggest Spider-Man fan. Sure I enjoyed the first two movies (especially the second, as I still can't believe that Sam Raimi did a good job in making Doctor Octopus a likable villain that we show sympathy for) but then there was the disaster that was Spider-Man 3.

Mobility: This is not a motion impaired friendly game; the control scheme players are given is the option, buttons will need to be mashed during combat - sometimes even rapidly. Web-swinging and wall-crawling sometimes prove more challenging than they should be.

Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions will allow players to travel through four different worlds as distinctly different versions of Spider-Man from four universes across Marvel lore, including The Amazing Spider-Man and Spider-Man Noir.

With the introduction of the Spider-Man movies, Spider-Man: The Movie (the videogame) made a big multiplatform splash in 2002. While there had been Spider-Man video games practically since there had been video game consoles, Spider-Man 2 made an even bigger splash introducing a new sandbox format...

Spider-man has done it again. He tries to do the right thing by stopping Mysterio from stealing the powerful Tablet of Order and Chaos. Unfortunately, the tablet shatters during the fight and pieces are strewn across four different Marvel dimensions.