Kotick: Activision’s Spider-Man games have ’sucked’
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick didn’t just talk up the DJ Hero franchise in his recent Game Informer interview. According to Destructoid, he also disparaged the quality of his company’s Spider-Man games.
“Our Spider-Man games have sucked for the last five years,” Kotick said, inadvertently revealing that he must not have played either the 360/PS3 or DS Web of Shadows games. “They are bad games. They were poorly rated because they were bad games.”
As for why they sucked: “We went away from what is Spider-Man,” Kotick said. “It’s about web-slinging. If you don’t do web-slinging, what is the fantasy of Spider-Man?” Since this is Activision, we can speculate about how the company will focus on web-slinging: By packaging a special “web shooter” controller with the game in a big $120 box. And, of course, a new developer will be involved with whatever happens with the franchise since next-gen Web of Shadows dev Shaba Games is no more.
Kotick: Activision’s Spider-Man games have ’sucked’ originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
