Super Spider Heroes Attacks comic series is a reenvisioning of the early days of Spider lore.
Here, Peter Parker is a scrawny 15-year-old kid, granted his powers via the infamous radioactive spider on a class field trip.
The plot of the Ultimate Spider game doesn't spend much time getting you up to speed with this,
instead taking just a brief minute or two to quickly show Parker's transformation into the titular hero,
as well as a bit of backstory about how he and his childhood friend, Eddie Brock,
stumble upon a mysterious bioengineered suit that both their fathers had apparently been working on before their deaths.
As any comic aficionado might assume, this is the suit that turns Brock into the gruesome, tongue-lashing beast known as Venom,
and that's right where things pick up. The plot itself is something of a disjointed affair;
it's really more of an excuse to squeeze as many relevant characters as possible into the package.
But it does a good job of achieving this goal, including plenty of friendly faces such as Wolverine and the Human Torch,
as well as modern versions of big-time villains such as Carnage, Electro, Green Goblin, and, of course, Venom himself.
The story ends up a winner because it sticks so closely to its comic-book roots--it's just too bad that there isn't very much of it.
To get through the entire story mode, it shouldn't take you more than a half-dozen hours at most,
and only about five hours of that actually make up story missions. Ultimate Spider retains the man sort of open-ended nature of Spider 2,
letting you roam around the city of New York, swinging your way to assorted side missions scattered about the town.
Most of these are basic checkpoint races, combat missions in which your entire goal is to beat up a bunch of gang members,
and city events, which simply consist of quick-rescue operations and break-ups of bank robberies or what have you.
These missions aren't optional, though. They appear that way at first,
but you'll soon find that you have to beat them to unlock more story missions--and in some cases,
you only unlock a cutscene, and then have to go back out into the city to beat more side missions to move on again.
Essentially, Super Spider Heroes Attacks man feels like the developers quickly ran out of story and hastily decided to make these missions required play to pad out the length.
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