Touching the mission selects it and the game then points you in the direction so you can swing around and reach the point on the map where the mission begins. You have the option to do them in any order you like. Missions appear on the map and you usually get a couple of them at a time.
You can roam around the city all you want but you would have to begin one of the missions in the game to progress through the story. You never actually see where the other end of the web is and at times you are in a completely open environment with nothing to sling the web at and Spider-man is still happily swinging from his web, which just attaches itself magically somewhere in mid-air. Simply pressing the button shoots the web and Spider-man pulls himself up and starts swinging. You don’t necessarily need to aim the web shooters at anything particular. You shoot the web using a button on the bottom right of the screen and keep it held to swing around. One of the advantages of being Spider-man is that you can swing from buildings using your web shooters and even if you fall down you don’t die, regardless of the height.
In ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’, you control Spider-man as he goes around New York City trying to save people from bad guys.
