The fights also suffer from camera issues, which is too bad because they're almost enjoyable. It's annoying in innocuous situations, such as while trying to gather the hundreds of collectible comic book pages hidden around the city, but frequently deadly when battling a super-villain on a rooftop. Trying to navigate between different modes of locomotion – swinging, wall-crawling and running, and using Spider-Man's slow-motion fast-dash 'web rush' – is a frustrating mess because the camera either can't keep up, or it reorients too quickly, making it extraordinarily easy to overshoot your intended targets. But if he gets up close to them or tries to navigate between some tight nooks and crannies… oh boy – that's when the camera problems start. This all works well if he swings in a straight line between New York's cavernous skyscrapers. And the worst part is, Beenox has broken the cardinal if-it-ain't-broke-don't-fix-it rule by messing with the one thing that made its previous games enjoyable: web-swinging. Terrible writing, outdated menus, frequent load times, repetitive missions and bugs galore – we're not talking spiders – conspire to make this latest release a chore to play through. Those efforts, from Shattered Dimensions (2010) and Edge of Time (2011) to the eponymous game tied the 2012 movie, at least served up enough Spidey-ness to please die-hard fans. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is an inauspicious fail for Beenox, the Quebec City-based developer responsible for the previous trio of console games starring everyone's favourite wall-crawler. 'Terrible' might actually be a more accurate description.

'Amazing' is hardly the word to describe the latest Spider-Man game. Title The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Platform Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, PC (reviewed on Xbox One) Publisher Activision Developer Beenox ESRB Rating T: Teen Release Date Tuesday, April 29, 2014

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