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Spider-Man: Web of Shadows – Amazing Allies Edition for PlayStation 2
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows for PlayStation 2 is the Amazing Allies Edition, an action adventure viewed mainly from the side. A symbiote invasion threatens New York and pits Spider-Man against street criminals and familiar comic-book enemies. You fight through separate levels, jump over obstacles and use webs to move forward. This is not the freely explorable three-dimensional city adventure released under the same main title for platforms including PlayStation 3.
During play, you switch between Spider-Man's red and black suits. Punches, kicks and web moves form the foundation; between missions, you spend collected points on new abilities. Some moves belong to a particular suit. Conversations matter too: you choose friendly red, neutral or more threatening black answers and earn points for the corresponding development. This connects the way Spider-Man responds with the techniques you can later use in combat.
Between missions, you manage abilities and extra powers, including assistance from allies whom you summon during the action. Other boosts support attacks, movement or health. Spider-Sense points towards your next objective and automatically warns of danger in certain missions. You play this adventure alone with one PS2 controller; a summoned ally is not a second local player. When starting, you choose from three difficulty levels, allowing you to adjust the challenge of combat to your preferences.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 2 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows – Amazing Allies Edition for PlayStation 2 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Spider-Man: Web of Shadows – Amazing Allies Edition
Activision released Spider-Man: Web of Shadows on several platforms in October 2008. PlayStation 2 and PSP received the separate Amazing Allies Edition from Amaze Entertainment. Instead of an open city with a camera behind the hero, this team chose side-scrolling action with three-dimensional characters. The story of a symbiote invasion linked the releases thematically, while movement, combat and progression through missions took a different form in each version.
The PS2 manual credits Brian Reed for story and dialogue and Michael D. Lynn as writer. Conversations also became part of the rules: red, neutral and black answers award development points. Spider-Man's attitude is therefore not just text between battles, but also a source of new abilities. The two suits further divide that development. Some techniques remain tied to one suit, so switching does more than simply change the hero's appearance.
Allies and temporary boosts received their own management system between missions. During play, you summon the selected assistance while Spider-Man remains the main character under your control. This edition therefore built a solo adventure around contacts with other Marvel characters, unlike the two-player cooperation in 2007's Friend or Foe. Jamie Christopherson provided the original music. Within the PS2 series, Amazing Allies Edition stands alongside the earlier open-city adventures as a different interpretation of the same web hero and his powers.
Similar games for PlayStation 2
Friend or Foe and Amazing Allies Edition both let Spider-Man cooperate with other Marvel characters on PS2. In Friend or Foe, a partner remains present throughout the levels and a second local player can control that character with a second controller. Amazing Allies Edition remains a solo adventure in which you summon allies. The side-scrolling route and red or black conversation answers also give it a different structure from Friend or Foe's duo battles.
Spider-Man 2 and Amazing Allies Edition combine webs, jumping and combat in New York on PS2. Spider-Man 2 makes Manhattan freely explorable, however, and lets you respond to minor crimes and rescues between story missions. Amazing Allies Edition follows separate levels mainly from the side and develops abilities through two suits. The same hero therefore calls for a different approach to routes, battles and the space between missions.
Ultimate Spider-Man and Amazing Allies Edition both take Spider-Man, Venom and a comic-book story as their starting point on PS2. Ultimate Spider-Man lets you alternate between controlling Spider-Man and Venom in a more open three-dimensional city. Amazing Allies Edition keeps Spider-Man under your control, switches between his two suits and presents a side-scrolling route. Both change your attacking options, but not through the same lead characters or the same approach to exploring the city.
Spider-Man from 2002 and Amazing Allies Edition use separate missions with combat, jumps and web abilities on PS2. The first film game lets you cross rooftops and interiors in three dimensions and follows the fight against Green Goblin. Amazing Allies Edition mainly chooses a side view and a symbiote invasion. Conversation choices, suit-specific abilities and summonable allies add different decisions from learning the original film game's combos.
The Incredibles and Amazing Allies Edition place superpowers within a solo adventure with separate levels on PS2. The Incredibles divides combat, running and stealth between different members of the Parr family. Amazing Allies Edition keeps the same web hero under your control and varies his techniques through the red and black suits. Switching characters and switching suits therefore both produce different actions, but they do not change your role in the same way.
