10 Video Games That Made Critics And Fans Hate Each Other
3. Spider-man: Web Of Shadows
Before Insomniac blew our minds with the wall-crawler's PS4 outing, Spider-man games were in a perpetual state of not being well received. At least, by critical review.
Web of Shadows is a curious beast of a game though. Instead of being a straight port across many consoles, each generation/style of console had a different iteration. The then-current console versions, namely PS3 and Xbox 360, continued the 3D, open world that we were used to. The PS2 and PSP were different, as was the Nintendo 3DS version.
So it was difficult for any one publication to nail a competent review, given it spread across several different playstyles. As it stands, it's Metacritic score is sat around the middle for each version.
Fans, by comparison, love it. Playing similar to modern contemporaries like Infamous and Prototype, WoS offered a competent multi-pathed choice system to compliment the story.
Do you want to be the upstanding hero and save the day, or turn the dark side, as it were, and become the leader of the Symbiotes? It was a good a Spidey story as we could get for the time, as well as the closest we've come to playing as Venom... so far.