One of my favorite runners to be released in the last year is Gameloft’s Spider-Man Unlimited. Released last month, it would probably be the best runner I’ve ever played, if not for it’s onerous free-to-play mechanics which make leveling up or unlocking new Spider-Men a total grind if you don’t pay out money.
It’s a testament to how good the core gameplay is that even though the free-to-play mechanics are so bad, I keep coming back for more. And now I have even more reason to be addicted, because the first major update to Spider-Man Unlimited is here, bringing more Spider-Man, more villains, new environments, and a new gameplay ‘issue’ to the already content-packed runner.
The biggest update to the game is the release of Issue No. 4, a whole new set of missions in which Spidey has to fight Sandman in his five different variations across 25 new missions.
There’s also a new in-game environment, inspired by New York City’s Highline. Like much of Spider-Man Unlimited‘s levels, the virtual Highline is realistic, but not so realistic as to make webslinging along it a chore.
There are also new Spider-Men coming down the pipe. The marquee new Spidey is Spider-Gwen, a Spider-Man from an alternate niverse where Peter Parker’s first girlfriend Gwen Stacey was bitten by a radioactive spider instead of Peter.
True, Spider-Man Unlimited hasn’t done anything to make the game less annoying for people who want to avoid endlessly spending money on in-game currency. That’s a real shame, because otherwise, the game is just so rich, and getting richer by the moment.
You can download Spider-Man Unlimited for free here.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
5 responses to “Spider-Man Unlimited gets sexy new girl Spidey, villains, and more”
Why do you feel the need to describe “Spider Gwen” as “sexy new girl Spidey”?
I find the male spider man sexy as hell.
Actually they have made the game better for people who want to avoid ridiculous in app purchases.
They changed the rank up system so that you don’t need to use ISO-8 to rank up characters. If you have a duplicate card, you can rank up your spidey without using ISO-8. If you don’t have a duplicate spidey card, you can use ISO-8 to rank up. It’s a choice.
Before this update, you needed a duplicate spidey card AND ISO-8 to rank up. Now it’s one or the other.
Will Spider Gwen be drawn with ‘spider-toe’?