The gaming equivalent of having a spider drown in your drink. While you're drinking it.

User Rating: 4 | Spider-Man 3 DS
Vicarious Visions is a lousy developer. The Wii version of Spider-man 3 they perpetrated is borderline broken, but you can still play through it. Now, the DS version is actually getting some good reviews despite VV's involvement and I guess my question is WTF?

I mean, the game is totally unplayable. Whoever did come up with a 100% touchscreen control scheme for an action game should be arrested. Most of the time Spider-man is possessed by some sort of seizure, kickstarted by random scribbling on the botom screen. Combat is a matter of pure luck, Spidey could start hitting people really fast or just stand there given the same series of strokes. Navigation is fine, but it's still the 2D fare of previous Spidey games. Pus, what the heck is that thing on Spider-man's arms? Are those web-throwers? Weren't his webs organic in the films?

Graphics look nice, but another unbelievably stupid element makes that irrelevant: there's a cursor. A huge friggin' cursor onscreen pretty much at all times. It obscures the view and is distracting as hell. Plus, my hands hurt after two minutes because the game forces a one handed grip while scribbling furiously.

Now, please tell me how this game got better ratings than the huge, if somewhat flawed, PS3/360/PC games on several gaming sites out there.