{"id":106493,"date":"2016-10-03T16:11:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T14:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=106493"},"modified":"2016-10-03T16:24:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T14:24:31","slug":"this-is-secretly-the-best-superhero-game-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/106493-this-is-secretly-the-best-superhero-game-this-year","title":{"rendered":"This is secretly the best superhero game this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who owned a copy of Spiderman 2 on the PlayStation 2 (or another console) would have experienced the best superhero game of that generation.<\/p>\n<p>Why was it the best?<\/p>\n<p>Not because of the story, graphics or soundtrack but because of how damn good it felt to swing around the city.<\/p>\n<p>The web-swinging was modeled on real-world physics meaning you actually had to connect to buildings and quite literally throw yourself around the city.<\/p>\n<p>No game has done it properly since (not even other Spiderman games), until now.<\/p>\n<p>Koei Tecmo&#8217;s <strong>Attack on Titan<\/strong> is also not a great game by all accounts.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s graphically quite stylish, but the mundane fetch quests that serve to act as a storyline and the repeated taking down of Titans begins to grate after a while.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s the gameplay that truly shines, as each character is given an omni-directional jetpack that has you zipping between Titans and buildings at breackneck speeds.<\/p>\n<p>It plays remarkably like the aforementioned Spiderman game (I&#8217;m not the only one who <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/449800\/\" target=\"_blank\">thinks\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>so) and it&#8217;s an absolute blast to just swing around.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for your superhero fix this year, the unlikely Attack on Titan is the best there is.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Which brand of graphics card should you buy?\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/98724-which-brand-of-graphics-card-should-you-buy.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Which brand of graphics card should you buy?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Highest-rated video games of 2016 (so far)\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/99002-highest-rated-video-games-of-2016-so-far.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Highest-rated video games of 2016 (so far)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How to buy an Oculus Rift in South Africa: what it will cost\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/99350-how-to-buy-an-oculus-rift-from-south-africa-what-it-will-cost.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to buy an Oculus Rift in South Africa: what it will cost<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No game this year feels as good as this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":106495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681],"tags":[31,18383,17875,22453,11461],"class_list":["post-106493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","tag-active","tag-anime","tag-attack-on-titan","tag-spiderman-2","tag-superhero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106497,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106493\/revisions\/106497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}