The Amazing Spider-Man 3: Invasion of the Spider-Slayers
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Spider-Man 3: Invasion of the Spider-Slayers is the third and final video game released by LJN
for the original Game Boy
based on the popular comic book
hero of the same name. The game was released in 1993 and is similar in style and format to the second The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Game Boy
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is being attacked by an assortment of high-tech robot Spider-Slayer
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As was the case with Spider-Man 2, the player had to control Spider-Man through various levels, fighting enemies and super villains while also trying to solve various types of puzzles, i.e. the first level the player had to distinguish between criminals in the park and men just reading a newspaper in the park. Then after defeating enough real thugs, the player had to manage several tricky web swings in order to get to the top of a building.
LJN
LJN was an American toy company and video game publisher. It created toy lines and video games based on movies, television shows, and celebrities. It was headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, and later in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.-Founding:...
for the original Game Boy
Game Boy
The , is an 8-bit handheld video game device developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on , in North America in , and in Europe on...
based on the popular comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
hero of the same name. The game was released in 1993 and is similar in style and format to the second The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
- Summary and storyline :While the game was a sequel to the 1990 video game titled The Amazing Spider-Man, it played much differently from the first game and was widely panned by video game critics...
Game Boy
Game Boy
The , is an 8-bit handheld video game device developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on , in North America in , and in Europe on...
title.
Storyline
The storyline of the game follows the contemporary comic book storyline that was being published at the same time; Spider-ManSpider-Man
Spider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko. He first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15...
is being attacked by an assortment of high-tech robot Spider-Slayer
Spider-Slayer
The Spider-Slayers are a series of fictional robots in the Marvel Comics universe that were specifically designed to hunt down, capture, and/or kill Spider-Man.-Fictional character biography:...
s.
As was the case with Spider-Man 2, the player had to control Spider-Man through various levels, fighting enemies and super villains while also trying to solve various types of puzzles, i.e. the first level the player had to distinguish between criminals in the park and men just reading a newspaper in the park. Then after defeating enough real thugs, the player had to manage several tricky web swings in order to get to the top of a building.
Critical review
As was the case with The Amazing Spider-Man 2, critics generally panned the game as having small graphics, complicated controls, grammatical errors in the exposition scenes, and being frustratingly difficult.See also
- Invasion of the Spider-SlayersInvasion of the Spider-Slayers"Invasion of the Spider-Slayers" is a six-part storyline printed in Marvel's The Amazing Spider-Man title in 1992-1993, featuring Spider-Man against a series of Spider-Slayers created mainly by Alistair Smythe.-Plot:...