In 2014, the toys-to-life game Disney Infinity released it's second edition, 2.0. This version added Marvel comics, which Disney owns, to it's banner. With this came a variety of playable Marvel Figures and playsets, which of course came to include Marvel's flagship superhero: Spider-man!

GRAPHICS: The figure itself looks really good. It's based off of the recent "ultimate spider-man" cartoon iteration, which i admit Spidey looks pretty cool in. The figure has Spider-man doing a crouching pose on a small, black, rock-like base. In-game and in-movement, he looks even better, as his variety of Combat skills are all a joy to see, and his mask even emotes while he attacks.


SOUND:
Sadly, also like in Ultimate Spider-man, here, he's voiced by Drake Bell... To be fair, he does a pretty decent job as Spider-man, though there are other voice actors who would be preferable to him. He does do a lot of cheesy lines during and after combat, though.


ADDICTIVENESS:
Here, we finally come to his gameplay! Gameplay-wise, he's really fun to play as. His basic combination attacks are full of stylish, acrobatic attacks which, like i said in graphics, are just fun to watch. He can also shoot a singular web-shot, which does a small amount of damage, and is handy from range. Last but not least, he can of course web swing! Anyone who's played a Spider-man game, like the classic spider-man 2 on ps2, knows how fun just freely swinging around can be, and here it's no different! I would almost suggest getting him and putting him on the base for a few minutes just so you can experience that, if you haven't before.


STORY:
Well... he's a figure. Spider-man himself doesn't HAVE a story, although he does come with a unique playset that DOES have a story, although i have yet to play it. I'll make sure to come back to this review and update it if i do play it at some point, though!

DEPTH:
Putting him on the base automatically unlocks some special spider-man-themed furniture that you can put in your INterior (Your ingame house that you can decorate, if you're wondering), and combat-wise... Well, he was introduced in Infinity 2.0, which was very basic combat-wise, and as such, his combat skills and upgrade tree aren't that big. He does have a few of the basic health and damage upgrades, along with an unlockable finisher for his combo attacks and some web shooter upgrades, but that's about it. Like i said before,once i play the spider-man playset, i'll come back here and add a point or 2, depending on how that goes.

DIFFICULTY:
As said in Depth, he doesn't have alot of complicated moves to pull off, so it's possible to button-mash your way through some basic fights. Although, there ARE some stronger enemies throughout the toybox that can be harder, and that's where Web-shooting comes in handy.


IN CONCLUSION:
All-in-all, good-looking figure, fun if not super simple combat style, and web-swinging that's as fun as ever, everyone's favorite web-slinger is a worthy purchase, whether you're just going for a complete collection of figures, or wanna travel through infinity in style!

Alright, so I told you most of this in chat, but I want to reach out and offer some critique/advice.

1. You shared a picture of Spider-man in person, which is neat, I wish more reviewers went the extra mile to do this! This gets major points from me. But you then decide against sharing a picture of him in-game, something that would have been nice to show us. Telling us he looks better in-game doesn't tell us much, since we only have a single reference point, which is the semi-blurry picture of Spider-man.

2. Would have been great if you had done the story before the review, since I imagine half the appeal of collecting him for DI is to play as him in his story mode or however it all works. It would have been a more solid review, with more to tell us about why we should or should not buy this character/set/game (since DI itself is pretty expensive!)

3. We know now, what the Spider-man thing is, but does this playset come with Infinity 2.0, or is it something we purchase separately? Give us a bit more background information.

Otherwise, I liked this review. I really like the idea of putting pictures in the review. I used to do that with my old RGR reviews.

legacyme3 : I feel like clumsily taking a blurry picture with my computer camera was worth it, just so i could add that extra detail. I wish more people would do that these days! And yep.. I definitely should've played the story BEFORE the review, because now that you mention it, the review feels pretty incomplete. I'm definitely not gonna do any MORE of these figure reviews without playing their respective stories from now on.

Like i said in chat, thanks for your advice. I really appreciate that constructive criticism!

Khfan_D98 :

Not a problem, I'm just glad someone wants criticism instead of blindly being told "lol good review".

When you update the review, let me know, I'm curious!